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• Obama summons intel chiefs for Washington talks (Reuters)
• Bhutto assassination inquiry extended - U.N. (Reuters)
• U.N. to pull some staff from Pakistan over security (Reuters)
• Govt delays mobile number portability to March '10 (Reuters)
• '3 Idiots' adds punch to bleak 2009 box office (Reuters)
• Food price data reinforces tightening view (Reuters)
• Tweets, sexting 'unfriended' in U.S. banned word list (Reuters)
• CIA probes Afghan base security after bomber kills 7 (Reuters)
• Bangladesh captain Mortaza ruled out of tri-series (Reuters)
• BSE Sensex rises 81 pct in 2009, more gains seen (Reuters)
• ANALYSIS - After tough year, Dubai expats pack up, eye Asia (Reuters)
• Ex-McKinsey director may be in Galleon plea deal (Reuters)
• 3G auction to be held by mid-Feb - source (Reuters)
• Times Square, Nasdaq reopened after scare (Reuters)
• BSE Sensex rises to highest level since May 2008 (Reuters)

Obama summons intel chiefs for Washington talks (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 02:59 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday summoned U.S. intelligence chiefs to a meeting next week to discuss how to prevent a repeat of the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25.

Bhutto assassination inquiry extended - U.N. (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 02:21 PM PST Reuters - A U.N. inquiry into the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will be prolonged by three months because of the scale of the task, the United Nations said on Thursday.

U.N. to pull some staff from Pakistan over security (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 07:57 AM PST Reuters - The United Nations will withdraw some of its staff from Pakistan because of safety concerns, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Thursday, highlighting security threats posed by increasingly brazen Taliban militants.

Govt delays mobile number portability to March '10 (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 03:21 AM PST Reuters - The government will introduce mobile number portability across the country by March 31, 2010, pushing back its commencement by up to three months in parts of the country, the government said on Thursday.

'3 Idiots' adds punch to bleak 2009 box office (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 03:27 AM PST Reuters - A stand-off between producers and multiplex owners and a shortage of hits marked a bleak year for Bollywood in 2009, but Aamir Khan starrer 3 Idiots may have saved the industry from hitting rock-bottom, trade analysts said.

Food price data reinforces tightening view (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 09:51 AM PST Reuters - Food price inflation returned to near 20 percent in mid-December, reinforcing expectations the Reserve Bank could tighten policy in coming weeks to prevent a broader break-out of inflationary pressures.

Tweets, sexting 'unfriended' in U.S. banned word list (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:46 PM PST Reuters - If you recently tweeted about how you were chillaxin for the holiday, take note: Fifteen particularly over- or mis-used words and phrases have been declared "shovel-ready" to be "unfriended" by a U.S. university's annual list of terms that deserve to be banned.

CIA probes Afghan base security after bomber kills 7 (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 02:00 PM PST Reuters - The CIA vowed on Thursday to avenge the deaths of seven officers in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and to investigate security breaches that allowed the second deadliest attack in agency history.

Bangladesh captain Mortaza ruled out of tri-series (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 11:50 PM PST Reuters - Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza has been ruled out of next month's home tri-series against India and Sri Lanka after failing a fitness test, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said on Thursday.

BSE Sensex rises 81 pct in 2009, more gains seen (Reuters) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 09:57 AM PST Reuters - MUMBAI (Reuters) The BSE Sensex rose 0.7 percent on Thursday to take its gains for 2009 to 81 percent, its biggest yearly rise since 1991, driven by a flood of foreign funds that is expected to continue into 2010.

ANALYSIS - After tough year, Dubai expats pack up, eye Asia (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 11:02 PM PST Reuters - For lawyer Wilfred Goh, the sign it was time to leave Dubai came early in 2009, when the financial crisis took its toll, plunging the emirate's main stock index down roughly 70 percent in a matter of months.

Ex-McKinsey director may be in Galleon plea deal (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 07:24 PM PST Reuters - Anil Kumar, a former McKinsey & Co director accused of leaking information in the Galleon hedge fund case, has agreed to waive indictment in the case, signaling that he may have reached a deal with prosecutors that could include a guilty plea.

3G auction to be held by mid-Feb - source (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 08:54 PM PST Reuters - The government is planning to auction third-generation wireless radio spectrum by mid-February, about a month later than had been scheduled, a senior government official told Reuters on Thursday.

Times Square, Nasdaq reopened after scare (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 08:03 PM PST Reuters - New York City's Times Square was closed briefly and three buildings including a Nasdaq building were evacuated in a security scare on Wednesday, a day before the traditional New Year's Eve festivities in the famed intersection.

BSE Sensex rises to highest level since May 2008 (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:10 PM PST Reuters - The BSE Sensex rose to its highest level since May 2008 on Thursday morning, boosted by gains in U.S. and Asian markets, and is set to post its biggest annual gains since 1991.

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