When former Japan Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa was caught on camera sleeping at a news conference during a G7 gathering to discuss the world financial crisis in February, he resigned.
And when Indian newspapers photographed their Interior Minister Shivraj Patilin with three different outfits within a space of a few hours after a bomb attack killed 23 people in Mumbai in November, last year, he quit.
Such are the frivolous reasons that make heads roll elsewhere.