Milestones

HOSPITALIZED. ANWAR IBRAHIM , jailed former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; for a worsening back condition; in Kuala Lumpur. After complaining that he'd lost feeling in his left leg, Anwar was rushed from prison to the hospital, where medical tests diagnosed kidney, nerve and spinal damage. Anwar's family is lobbying the government to let him leave Malaysia for treatment in Munich. Anwar is awaiting the result of his final appeal on a controversial 1998 conviction and nine-year prison term for sodomy.

REAPPOINTED. HUN SEN , as Cambodian Prime Minister; by the country's King Norodom Sihanouk, after a political stalemate that...