[Batsy]

In fact, I don't think Putin is right.

Plan International has chosen an Indian baby girl as the world's seven billionth person.

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BBC News
South Asia



Baby Nargis was born at 07:25 local time (01:55GMT) on 31st October in Mall village in India's Uttar Pradesh state.

Plan International says Nargis has been chosen symbolically as it is not possible to know where exactly the seven billionth baby is born.

The United Nations estimated that on Monday 31 October, the world's population would reach seven billion.

However, the UN itself has decided not to identify a specific child as the seven billionth person.

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, told a news conference marking the occasion that the milestone was not about one newborn baby but about the entire "human family".

He warned of rising public anger in the world's population and a loss of faith in governments and public institutions to do the right thing.

"Our world is one of terrible contradictions," he said.

"Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few but poverty for too many others."

He said he would take a message to the leaders of the G20 leading economies who are due to meet in Cannes later this week.

"Think about our children, think about the future with vision and foresight."

He said he would call for the world's poor not to be forgotten in a time of economic austerity and for women and young people to be given a proper voice in their future.

In addition to baby Nargis in India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Cambodia have all identified seven billionth babies.

'Good luck'

Every minute, 51 babies are born in India, 11 of them in the most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.

Nargis was born to Vinita and Ajay Kumar on Monday morning in a small government-run hospital in Mall village, nearly 50km (31 miles) from the state capital, Lucknow, a Plan International official told the BBC.

The daughter of a poor farmer, Nargis was chosen as the seventh billionth baby to focus attention on the ills of female foeticide and India's skewed sex ratio, the organisation said.

Hundreds of thousands of female foetuses are aborted in India every year, even though sex-selective terminations and the use of ultrasound technology for foetal sex-determination are illegal there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15517259

[saturn_656]

Batsy Batsy:

Plan International has chosen an Indian baby girl as the world's seven billionth person.

Not because they actually think so, it's just a PR statement to raise the profile of the issues they advocate for.

[-Wario-]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Batsy Batsy:

Plan International has chosen an Indian baby girl as the world's seven billionth person.

Not because they actually think so, it's just a PR statement to raise the profile of the issues they advocate for.

That makes sense to me. But we all know how the Tsar thinks of this.

[GreenTiger]

He probably does think that Russia invented sunlight.

[MaineUSAGuy]

The seven billionth person could be from Texas.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

Batsy Batsy:

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

Putin can claim Russia invented sunlight, but who cares. All Putin does is talk, but I don't think anyone really listens.

-J.

How do you know that Putin isn't right?

Prove me wrong.

-J.

[ShepherdsDog]

he suffers from Ensign Chekov's Syndrome

[yukondug]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

He probably does think that Russia invented sunlight.

And the internet too