| Govt to keep 'cash for vote' money (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 02:11 AM CST  Reuters - The government will keep wads of cash waved around in parliament by opposition lawmakers protesting against what they said were government attempts to bribe MPs, a senior official has said.
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| Pele set to dazzle again, in animation film (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:17 AM CST  Reuters - Pele is set to return to the field again, this time in an animation film to be made by an Indian company around the Brazilian soccer legend.
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| Villagers in eastern India resist bird flu poultry cull (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:07 AM CST  Reuters - Efforts by state authorities in east India to cull poultry to contain the latest outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus are being thwarted by poor villagers hiding their birds, officials said on Wednesday.
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| Dazed England face uphill struggle against India (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 02:23 AM CST  Reuters - England, stunned by India's record run chase in the first test, have little time to rue their poor finishing ahead of the second and final test starting on Friday.
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| India can reduce hunger with political will - WFP (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:11 AM CST  Reuters - India can make a significant contribution to the global fight against malnourishment and hunger if it shows political will and makes its food distribution system more effective, the U.N.'s World Food Programme said.
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| Bangladesh lifts emergency ahead of election (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 02:26 AM CST  Reuters - Bangladesh ended a two-year-old state of emergency on Wednesday ahead of a parliamentary election this month aimed at restoring democracy in the South Asian country, a Home Ministry statement said.
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| Jeev Milkha Singh to cap year of anguish with Asian glory (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 12:49 AM CST  Reuters - India's Jeev Milkha Singh will cap a year of physical and mental anguish when he formally claims the Asian Tour order of merit for a second time this weekend.
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| India-Pakistan talks stalled after attacks - Delhi (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 11:07 PM CST  Reuters - Tentative peace talks between India and Pakistan have stalled after the Mumbai attacks, India said on Tuesday, and can only resume if Islamabad takes more decisive action against militant groups on its soil.
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| ICC asks umpires to curb slow over rates, verbal abuse (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 10:38 PM CST  Reuters - The International Cricket Council (ICC) has called on match officials to clamp down on slow over rates and verbal abuse.
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| Pakistan sees need for crackdown after Mumbai (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 12:04 PM CST  Reuters - The attacks in Mumbai last month have convinced Pakistani leaders of the need for a serious crackdown on the Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), U.S. Sen. John Kerry said on Tuesday.
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| U.S. slashes rates as world eyes all economic tools (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 06:09 PM CST  Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve took a radical step to revive the moribund economy, slashing its key interest rate to zero to 0.25 percent on Tuesday, shortly after plummeting consumer prices and record-low housing starts pointed to a prolonged recession.
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| Financial crisis pushing hungry to wall, WFP says (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 02:52 PM CST  Reuters - The economic crisis is pushing the world's hungriest people to the wall, but a fraction of the cost of financial rescue packages could make a huge difference, the head of the U.N.'s World Food Programme said on Tuesday.
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| Pakistani Hindus rally to support Islamic charity (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 08:25 AM CST  Reuters - About 200 Hindu women protested in Pakistan on Tuesday against restrictions on an Islamic charity that India says is a front for a militant group it blames for attacks in Mumbai last month.
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| India shares turn down; angry investors dump Satyam (Reuters) Posted: 17 Dec 2008 12:52 AM CST  Reuters - Indian shares fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday morning, surrendering a stronger opening, with shares in outsourcing firm Satyam plunging more than 30 percent as investors vented anger over a now-abandoned deal.
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| Satyam bows to investors, drops deal for builders (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 09:53 PM CST Reuters - India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd bowed to investor pressure and cancelled plans to spend $1.6 billion to buy two builders, killing the deals just 12 hours after they were announced. |
| U.S. team performs near-total face transplant (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 10:04 AM CST Reuters - A team of U.S. doctors have performed the first near-total face transplant in the United States, the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio said on Tuesday. |
| Iraq shoe-thrower in hospital with broken arm - brother (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 07:51 AM CST  Reuters - An Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in a fit of outrage was hit in the head with a rifle butt and had an arm broken in chaotic scenes when he was leapt on by Iraqi security officers, his brother said on Tuesday.
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| Iraqi doctor guilty of British car bomb plots (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 08:11 AM CST  Reuters - An Iraqi doctor was convicted on Tuesday of planning to bomb a nightclub in central London and a packed Scottish airport a day later last year in order to commit murder on an "indiscriminate and wholesale scale".
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