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Dalai Lama demands Tibet autonomy, mourns past (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 06:27 AM PDT

Reuters - The Dalai Lama marked his 50 years in exile on Tuesday by demanding "meaningful autonomy" for his Tibetan homeland, where Chinese authorities tightened security to stifle protests against their rule.

Liverpool rout Real, Chelsea put out Juve (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Reuters - Liverpool tore Real Madrid apart with a blistering 4-0 win to reach the Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday while Premier League rivals Chelsea drew 2-2 with Juventus in Turin to progress 3-2 on aggregate.

U.N. climate panel head Pachauri to head Yale center (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 01:29 PM PDT

Reuters - The chairman of the U.N.'s science panel will head the new Yale Climate and Energy Institute, the university said on Tuesday.

India's own Google Earth causes security worries (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 05:39 AM PDT

Reuters - India is launching its own version of Google Earth for urban planning, officials said, amid worries that it could be misused after the Mumbai attacks probe showed militants had studied Google images of targets.

Bollywood tale of orphan puts spotlight on Kashmir (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 05:55 AM PDT

Reuters - A new Bollywood film set in Kashmir depicts life in the troubled region through the eyes of a teenage boy whose parents are killed by separatist militants.

Don't compare India to Pakistan, says IPL chief Modi (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 03:09 AM PDT

Reuters - The chairman of India's popular Twenty20 league has dismissed security fears ahead of the second edition of the tournament, insisting it was wrong to compare the situation in India to Pakistan.

Economic crisis pulls at Kashmir carpet industry (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 01:42 AM PDT

Reuters - The global economic crisis is threatening to unravel Indian Kashmir's popular carpet industry, which was largely unaffected by a bloody 20-year rebellion, officials and traders say.

Tendulkar out of fourth one-dayer against New Zealand (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 10:01 PM PDT

Reuters - India's Sachin Tendulkar has been ruled out of Wednesday's fourth one-day international against New Zealand in Hamilton because of an abdominal injury.

INDIA ELECTION EYE - Communists step up poll efforts (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 11:02 PM PDT

Reuters - The following is a snapshot of recent developments in India's general election campaign. The sources of reports are in brackets.

High prevalence of child marriage in India - study (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 09:51 PM PDT

Reuters - A large proportion of women in India were married when they were still children, a study has found, and researchers warned that such unions carried higher risks of unwanted pregnancies and female sterilization.

Salt, sugar and water avert diarrhoea deaths - WHO (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 06:43 AM PDT

Reuters - A pinch of salt, a handful of sugar and some clean water is all that is needed to save up to two million children who die each year from diarrhoea, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka bombing kills 10, wounds cabinet minister (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 12:07 AM PDT

Reuters - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 20, including Sri Lanka's telecommunications minister, during a parade in south of the Indian Ocean island on Tuesday, officials said.

Lahore security inadequate, says Sri Lanka coach Bayliss (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Reuters - The Sri Lankan cricket team had inadequate security when they were attacked by a group of heavily armed men in Lahore last week, coach Trevor Bayliss said on Tuesday.

Congress, agencies move as stem cell limits lifted (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 07:33 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama signed an order lifting eight years of restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research on Monday as scientists gushed, activists cheered and shares in stem cell companies rose.