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• Pakistani Taliban chief likely killed -minister (Reuters)
• Pakistan says Indian evidence against Saeed too weak (Reuters)
• El Nino seen strengthening over next two months (Reuters)
• New Tamil Tiger head arrested - Sri Lanka (Reuters)
• Three sentenced to death over 2003 Mumbai blasts (Reuters)
• Monsoon deficit 64 pct in critical crop week (Reuters)
• Fox Star to distribute My Name is Khan (Reuters)
• Hacker attacks silence Twitter, slow Facebook (Reuters)
• Thomson Reuters Q2 beats, CEO sees banks hiring (Reuters)
• Bank staff start strike, trading hit (Reuters)
• Pakistani Taliban chief may be dead - U.S. official (Reuters)
• Tendulkar chases 15,000 test runs, World Cup victory (Reuters)
• Campaigns end ahead of Sri Lanka's first post-war polls (Reuters)
• Uighur unrest shows China's failures - Dalai Lama (Reuters)
• ICC confident India will accept doping code (Reuters)
• Pakistan starts Interpol search for Mumbai suspects (Reuters)
• Rising food prices a concern - Ahluwalia (Reuters)
• Govt studying uniform domestic gas price - Deora (Reuters)
• New Michael Jackson songs on missing hard drives (Reuters)
• Kumble, Srinath oppose Karnataka Twenty20 league (Reuters)

Pakistani Taliban chief likely killed -minister (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:42 PM PDT Reuters - There is a strong likelihood that Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife and bodyguards in a missile attack two days ago, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Reuters.

Pakistan says Indian evidence against Saeed too weak (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 07:39 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan said on Thursday that evidence given by India failed to build a case for the arrest of Hafiz Saeed, the founder of a Pakistan-based group blamed for the Mumbai attacks, a stance certain to stoke anger in India.

El Nino seen strengthening over next two months (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 12:48 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. government's Climate Prediction Center said Thursday it expected the El Nino weather phenomenon to strengthen over the next two months, but forecasts varied on how much and for how long.

New Tamil Tiger head arrested - Sri Lanka (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 11:16 AM PDT Reuters - COLOMBO (Reuters) -- The new head of the Tamil Tigers, the separatist group defeated by the Sri Lankan military after a 25-year war, has been arrested in Thailand, Sri Lanka's military said on Thursday.

Three sentenced to death over 2003 Mumbai blasts (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:01 AM PDT Reuters - A court on Thursday sentenced to death three persons including a woman found guilty of conspiring with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to carry out the 2003 Mumbai serial blasts that killed at least 54 people, officials said.

Monsoon deficit 64 pct in critical crop week (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 08:06 AM PDT Reuters - India's monsoon rains were barely a third of normal in the past seven days, dipping for the second straight week at a crucial period for oilseeds and sugarcane, and raising concerns of rising food prices.

Fox Star to distribute My Name is Khan (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 09:42 AM PDT Reuters - Fox Star Studios said on Thursday it had signed a deal to finance and distribute My Name is Khan, a Bollywood film starring Shah Rukh Khan.

Hacker attacks silence Twitter, slow Facebook (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:48 PM PDT Reuters - Twitter and Facebook said they suffered service problems from hacker attacks on Thursday, raising speculation of a coordinated campaign against the world's most popular online social networks.

Thomson Reuters Q2 beats, CEO sees banks hiring (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 10:30 AM PDT Reuters - Thomson Reuters Corp reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by cost cuts, and said it expected 2009 revenue to grow as the financial industry recovered.

Bank staff start strike, trading hit (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:26 AM PDT Reuters - Employees of state-run banks, including the country's biggest lender State Bank of India, began a two-day strike on Thursday for higher wages and pension, affecting cash transaction and foreign exchange trading volumes.

Pakistani Taliban chief may be dead - U.S. official (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:28 PM PDT Reuters - There is reason to believe Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, whose wife was killed in a missile attack two days ago, may also be dead, a U.S. official said on Thursday.

Tendulkar chases 15,000 test runs, World Cup victory (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 06:58 AM PDT Reuters - While many of his contemporaries have retired, Sachin Tendulkar has no intention of applying the brakes on his record-breaking career and instead wants to score 15,000 test runs and win the 2011 World Cup.

Campaigns end ahead of Sri Lanka's first post-war polls (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 10:41 AM PDT Reuters - Campaigning for Sri Lanka's first post-war polls ended on Thursday, and the government resettled more than 3,000 who people who fled the final offensive against the Tamil Tigers. '

Uighur unrest shows China's failures - Dalai Lama (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 06:42 AM PDT Reuters - Ethnic riots in northwest China have exposed the failings of Beijing's minority policies, and a more "realistic" stance toward Tibetans and others could emerge within a decade, the Dalai Lama said on Thursday.

ICC confident India will accept doping code (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 07:44 AM PDT Reuters - The International Cricket Council (ICC) is confident India's cricket authorities will eventually comply with the World Anti-Doping Agency's "whereabouts" rule, its chief executive Haroon Lorgat has said.

Pakistan starts Interpol search for Mumbai suspects (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:06 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan has launched a global search for 13 suspects in last November's attack on Mumbai, the international police network Interpol said on Thursday.

Rising food prices a concern - Ahluwalia (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 07:20 AM PDT Reuters - Rising food prices are a matter of concern, but the country has comfortable food stocks to deal with any difficult situation, plan panel deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Thursday.

Govt studying uniform domestic gas price - Deora (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 06:09 AM PDT Reuters - India will examine a uniform domestic price for natural gas, which is now sold at rates ranging from $1 to $5.73 per million British thermal units (mBtu) depending on source, Oil Minister Murli Deora said on Thursday.

New Michael Jackson songs on missing hard drives (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 06:20 AM PDT Reuters - Another thriller is developing in the complex afterlife of Michael Jackson.

Kumble, Srinath oppose Karnataka Twenty20 league (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:53 AM PDT Reuters - Former India skipper Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath have warned against the launch of a local franchise Twenty20 league, saying it could kill young talent.

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