VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 13 (UPI) -- A Filipino family immigrating to Canada was so excited at a flight stopover in Vancouver, they left behind an 18-month-old toddler.

The group was bound for Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the boy's parents and grandparents were seated separately on the aircraft, Air Canada (OTCBB:AIDIF) spokeswoman Angela Mah told the Vancouver Sun. Each pair thought the other had the toddler Monday, she said.

"We were called by (security) who told us one of the security people had a toddler in tow," Mah said. "He doesn't speak English so we found a Tagalog-speaking agent who has been looking after him."

Because the child would have been seated on an adult's lap, he had no boarding pass, and there was initial concern among airline staff because no one had reported a missing child.

After scanning passenger lists, airline staff eventually identified the flight the family was on, and Mah said the parents were put into telephone contact with the child.

Once the flight landed in Winnipeg, Air Canada put the boy's father on a flight back to Vancouver to retrieve his son, Mah said.

Funky designer dresses British judges

LONDON, May 13 (UPI) -- British judges said they are preparing to scrap horsehair wigs and old robes as a designer known for making "funky British clothes" gives them a new look.

British judges will take leave of their traditional legal garb in October, when a fresh design by Betty Jackson, whose tag is "funky British clothes for aspiring funky British girls," becomes the required court-wear, The Times of London reported.

The new robes will feature distinctly colored bands to indicate seniority and will take the place of wigs, wing collars, bands and the black gown, the Times said.

Nicholas Phillips of Worth Matravers, the senior judge and the lord chief justice, said the new robes have been met with some resistance, but overall, they are a strong choice.

"I've not got 100 percent support but I have the majority. I hope that after wearing the new gown for a while everyone will be happy," he said.

City to use parking meters for the poor

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 (UPI) -- San Francisco officials said the city is planning to install "homeless" meters to collect change for the poor in an effort to cut down on panhandling.

The meter plan, to be announced in the next few weeks, is intended to reduce the market for panhandling by discouraging people from handing spare change directly to the homeless, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.

The newspaper said 10 old parking meters -- painted orange -- will be installed in areas most prone to panhandling. City officials said cash from the meters will be distributed to nonprofit organizations in the city.

Critics argue the plan is a waste of time and will only make life harder for the homeless.

"It's not fair for the government to create this incredible level of poverty and then turn around to the rest of the community and say, 'Harden your hearts and give the money to us,'" Paul Boden, director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project, told the Chronicle.

Nude pictures in textbook cause uproar

ALLEN, Texas, May 13 (UPI) -- Officials at a Texas high school said they may ban a German textbook featuring pictures of nude women after it caused a flurry of controversy.

Allen (Texas) High School students first noticed the scandalous pictures on a magazine in the background of a photograph in the Deutsch Aktuell textbook, WFAA-TV, Dallas reported Tuesday.

"We were actually doing a class reading and a few students noticed it and started giggling, and the teacher caught on and the whole class knew," student Joshua Sabik said.

"Oh, it was obvious ... Naked women, breasts, right out there in your face," Joshua's mother Desiree Sabik told WFAA.

Education officials said the books, which have been in schools since 2005, may be banned from classrooms or kept in use with a sticker covering up the saucy photo.