The Chinese Confucius Foundation in cooperation with China's two media giants inked a $ 5. 3 million deal on Friday to make a cartoon series highlighting the life and teachings of the popular ancient philosopher, Confucius. The cartoon series, to be composed of 100 episodes in 13-minuter format each, will be aired to mark the 2,560th birth anniversary of Confucius in 2009.

Cyberspace is not the best place to get even at an old flame who has set his eyes on another woman. This was the bitter lesson learned by 34-year-old Pilar Stofega who was charged for second-degree harassment and breach of peace in a Connecticut court for using the Internet to vent her rage.

Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing has said that the 9/11 attacks were not as bad as the reign of terror waged by the IRA on mainland Britain. The Associated Press (AP) reports Lessing, in conversation with the leading Spanish daily El Pais, as saying "September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. "

Superstition is now playing a key role as the world begins to unite in protest against the recent brutal crackdown in Myanmar. Women have been sending their underwear to Burma or its embassies outside the country as a sign of protest. Liz Hilton, a supporter of an activist group that started the "Panties for Peace" campaign, said that sending women's undergarments was a strong message in Burmese and in all South East Asian Culture.

Women peace activists from Thailand, Australia, Singapore, and European countries are sending or delivering their underwear to Myanmar missions. The symbolic act is meant to protest the Myanmar junta's violent crackdown of monks-led rallies in Yangon last month, and to oust the generals ruling the country from power.