Airline sorry for asking woman to cover up

London: A UK airline has apologised to a 21-year-old woman for threatening to offload her for wearing “inappropriate” attire. Emily O'Connor, who was travelling on a Thomas Cook Airlines flight from Birmingham Airport to Tenerife in the Canary Islands on March 2, said the cabin crew told her clothing was “causing offence”. Her outfit consisted of a crop top and high-waisted pants. She said she was asked to put on a jacket or be removed from the plane. IANS

Japanese unite against wearing heels to work

Tokyo: A social media campaign against Japanese employers forcing women to wear high heels to work has drawn support from tens of thousands of people. Yumi Ishikawa, a 32-year-old actress and model, started the protest movement by tweeting a message in January about suffering from wearing heels every day. Most companies in Japan have a dress code. However, a growing number are relaxing the norms on grounds of comfort. ians

Pi Day: Iwao calculates value to record digits

Tokyo/California: A Google employee has calculated the value of the number pi to a new world record of 31.4 trillion digits. Japan’s Emma Haruka Iwao used Google’s compute engine to help smash the previous record of around 22 trillion. It was the first time the firm’s cloud service had been used for a calculation of this scale — 31,415,926,535,897 digits. The calculation took 25 virtual machines and 121 days to complete, with Google celebrating the news on National Pi Day. The first three digits, 3.14, are well known but the number is infinite and never-ending. — Agencies