The memorable green-eyed “Afghan girl” whose picture touched a generation in 1984 has appeared in court in Peshawar, accused of having a fake Pakistani identity card. Sharbat Gulla shot to international fame when a photo of her, as a refugee girl, made the cover of National Geographic. Elsewhere in Your World, ripples of laughter rolled over delegates at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Slovenia as Japan voted “no” to a proposal for a whale sanctuary. The Japanese are enormous whale eaters. Other IWC news. And advance voting has begun in the U.S. general election.
