
Pushing hard for an elected seat on the UN Security Council, Iran failed to
get enough votes from its allies. All 192 United Nations members could participate in the vote to chose which nations should fill the five open seats on the UN Security Council. They decided
to give the Asian seat to Japan, instead of Iran by 158 votes to 32.

Well, if there's no other reason to live to the ripe young age of 100, in Japan you get a silver cup and a congrats card from the prime minister if you do. I hope he's bought those suckers in bulk because almost
20,000 Japanese are set to turn 100 this year alone. And they'll have many, many friends in their 5-k age class — there are already 36,276 centenarians in Japan, up a whopping 4,000 since last year.

Japan has plans to label consumer goods like beer and detergents with their carbon footprints. Officials think the standardized label
will raise corporate and consumer awareness of global warming. Britain and France already
place similar labels on products.