<B>SINGAPORE. </B>Thou shalt not steal ? especially the Bible. A Singaporean judge sentenced a man to four months in jail for stealing a Bible, admonishing him with Scripture before hauling him off to prison, The Straits Times newspaper reported recently. District judge Bala Reddy also gave a new Bible to the 26-year-old thief, who said he had tried to steal the book from a bookshop last month because he wanted to replace his old, tattered copy. At the Tuesday sentencing, the judge told the defendant ? who has previous convictions for theft ? to open his gift. ?You will see at page 65 that it says ?Thou shalt not steal?. While you are in prison, sit in prison and read the Bible, and ensure that you don?t come before the courts again,? Reddy said.

<B>NEW YORK. </B>Woman seeks rich husband, banker says ?crappy? deal. Deal or no deal? An online exchange between a woman looking for a husband who earns more than $500,000 a year and a mystery Wall Street banker, who assessed her potential for romance as a business deal, has cause quite an Internet stir. The anonymous 25-year-old woman recently posted an ad on the free online New York community Web site Craigslist, http://newyork.craigslist.org/, appealing for advice on how to find a wealthy husband. ?I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don?t think I?m overreaching at all,? the woman, who described herself as ?spectacularly beautiful? and ?superficial,? wrote. ?I dated a business man who makes average around 200 ? 250. But that?s where I seem to hit a roadblock. $250,000 won?t get me to Central Park West,? she said, asking questions like ?where do rich single men hang out?? The mystery banker, who said he fit the bill, offered the woman an analysis of her predicament, describing it as ?plain and simple a crappy business deal.?

<B>SHANGHAI. </B>China No.2 in billionaires as assets boom. China has more billionaires than any country except the United States, as soaring stock and property prices helped to boost wealth among the country?s super-rich, researcher Rupert Hoogewerf said recently. The number of Chinese worth $1 billion or more jumped to 108, from 15 last year, growing much faster than in western countries, Hoogewerf said in his 2007 China ?rich list,? which ranks the800 wealthiest individuals in the country. The average wealth of those on the list doubled from a year earlier to $562 million. ?There?s still plenty of growth opportunity as China?s top entrepreneurs turn their sights to the vast underdeveloped and largely unregulated economic hinterland,? Hoogewerf said. Yang Huiyan, 25, tops the list after receiving $17.5 billion from her property developer father, the report said, echoing another China rich list published by Forbes magazine recently.

<B>LONDON. </B>Earth getting wetter and stickier. Greenhouse gases are making the earth?s atmosphere wetter and stickier, which may lead to more powerful hurricanes, hotter temperatures and heavier rainfall in tropical regions, British researchers reported on the day before. The findings, published in the journal Nature, are some of the first to show how human-produced greenhouse gases have affected global humidity levels in recent decades and could offer clues on future climate change, the researchers said.

<B>WASHINGTON. </B>Lightning discovered at Jupiter?s poles. A NASA spacecraft observed lightning strikes at Jupiter?s poles as it provided insights into the giant planet?s dynamic atmosphere as well as volcanic activity on one of its moons, scientists said recntly. The New Horizons spacecraft, passing by the solar system?s largest planet en route to the dwarf planet Pluto, also snapped images of the tiny rings encircling Jupiter, studied a huge, swirling storm and explored the planet?s long magnetic tail.