2008年10月10日星期五

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

Dalai Lama has surgery for gallstones (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 02:50 AM CDT

File photo of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Milan December 7, 2007. REUTERS/Alessandro GarofaloReuters - The Dalai Lama has undergone successful surgery in a New Delhi hospital to remove gallstones and expects to resume his duties by the end of the month, a senior aide said on Friday.


Panic strangles Asia stocks, yen jumps (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 10:49 PM CDT

A man looks at a video display showing financial data in downtown Tokyo October 10, 2008. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Asian stocks plunged on Friday, with Japan's Nikkei down more than 10 percent, while the yen and U.S. Treasuries rose, as panic ripped through markets and investors shrugged off efforts so far to unlock credit markets.


Nikkei has biggest one-day drop since '87 stock crash (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 01:21 AM CDT

A trader works on the trading floor of Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. in Tokyo October 7, 2008. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Japan's Nikkei stock average dived 9.6 percent on Friday, its biggest one-day loss since the 1987 stock market crash, on growing fear the financial crisis will spark a global recession. The benchmark average's drop of 24 percent for the week was more than double the weekly drop right after the 1987 market crash.


Stocks plunge, pressure on G7 to act on crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 10:55 PM CDT

A share trader reacts as he sits behind his trading terminals at the Frankfurt stock exchange, October 9, 2008. REUTERS/Kai PfaffenbachReuters - Fearful selling clenched Asian markets on Friday after U.S. stocks plunged, heaping pressure on economic powers to halt a global spiral of financial distress and slowing growth.


"Nomadic" French writer Le Clezio wins Nobel prize (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 11:58 AM CDT

French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio is seen in Stockholm in this February 19, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Scanpix/Jessica GowReuters - French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a globetrotting novelist hailed as a child of all continents, won the Nobel prize for literature on Thursday.


China's Liang shoots course record for Indian Open lead (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 10:05 AM CDT

Reuters - China's Liang Wen-chong shot a course record 12-under 60 to take a five-shot lead over India's Jeev Milkha Singh in the first round of the Asian Tour Indian Open at the par-72 Delhi Golf Club course on Thursday.

Thousands seek blessings of Nepal's former king (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 09:47 AM CDT

Nepal's ousted King Gyanendra and his wife Komal give blessings to the people at their residence in Kathmandu October 9, 2008. REUTERS/Gopal ChitrakarReuters - About 5,000 people lined up in front of the private home of Nepal's ousted King Gyanendra on Thursday to seek his blessings on an important Hindu festival, his first as a commoner.


U.S. eyes bank equity stakes as world looks to G7 (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 12:14 PM CDT

G7 Finance Ministers pose for a group photo before the outreach dinner for the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Tokyo in this February 9, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Toru Yamanaka/POOLReuters - The United States moved closer to taking equity stakes in banks on Thursday ahead of a G7 meeting of economic powers trying to stave off world financial ruin.


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