Burma’s military junta has reportedly begun freeing police and soldiers who had previously been jailed for desertion or going absent without leave. The alleged move was made after a notable struggle with personnel shortages. Burma has been a military dictatorship since the
NASA has lost contact with its Voyager 2 space probe – nearly 50 years after its launch. The United States space agency said the probe – which is now floating on its own, almost 12 billion kilometres from Earth – was no