Now, face scan must for mobile services users in China

New Delhi/Beijing: Customers in China who wish to register for new mobile phone services will be required to get their faces scanned, a media report said. The regulation was due to come into effect on Sunday, the BBC reported. While signing up for a new mobile or mobile data services, customers are required to show their national identification cards and get photographed. From now on, they will also have to get their faces scanned to help verify they are genuine match to the ID provided. IANS

Relic said to be from Jesus’ manger arrives in Bethlehem

Bethlehem: A tiny wooden relic that some Christians believe to be part of Jesus’ manger arrived on Saturday in its permanent home in the biblical city of Bethlehem 1,400 years after it was sent to Rome as a gift to the pope. Cheerful crowds greeted the ornately encased relic with much fanfare before it entered the Franciscan Church of St Catherine next to the Church of the Nativity, the West Bank holy site where tradition says Jesus was born. AP