Gary Glitter on child obscenity charges

Former British rocker Gary Glitter was formally charged today with committing obscene acts with two girls aged 10 and 11 at a resort town on the coast of southern Vietnam, a prosecutor said.

Glitter, 61, who won fame as a flamboyant glam rocker in the 1970s, is accused of kissing and fondling the girls and engaging in other physical acts at his rental home in Vung Tau, prosecutor Nguyen Van Xung said.