Canada says India nuclear deal imminent (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 11:54 AM PDT Reuters - Canada is close to signing a deal with India to sell nuclear technology and materials, Trade Minister Stockwell Day said on Friday, adding he was confident remaining security concerns would be resolved. |
Twitter snags new investment, backers (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 11:29 AM PDT Reuters - Twitter closed a new round of funding on Friday with five investors including mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price and private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, underscoring growing investor interest in the three-year-old Internet microblogging service. |
Western leaders warn Iran over nuclear site (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 09:52 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret nuclear fuel plant and threatened tough new sanctions unless Tehran comes clean about its nuclear program. |
Kasparov beats Karpov in rerun of 1984 chess clash (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 02:36 AM PDT Reuters - Russian chess legend Gary Kasparov has won a re-match of his classic 1984 world championship contest with compatriot Anatoly Karpov, ending a 12-match clash in the Spanish city of Valencia 9-3. |
G20 takes charge of world economy at U.S. summit (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 11:53 AM PDT Reuters - The Group of 20 will become the forum for global economic management, giving rising powers such as China more clout, and will roll out tougher rules for banks by the end of 2012, a draft communique said on Friday. |
India chimney collapse toll up to 40; many missing (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 07:06 AM PDT Reuters - Rescuers have retrieved 40 bodies from the rubble of an industrial chimney that collapsed in central India, but officials fear the death toll could surge as dozens of workers were still missing on Friday. |
NASA finds ice on the moon and on Mars (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:25 PM PDT Reuters - International space missions have found ice on the moon and more evidence of ice on Mars -- good news for future settlements and also for scientists looking for extraterrestrial life. |
Partial vote recount starts in Afghanistan (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 07:27 AM PDT Reuters - Afghan officials have started a partial vote recount from last month's presidential election in a long-awaited procedure due to bring to an end weeks of uncertainty over the ballot, a UN-backed watchdog said on Friday. |
Q+A - Any chance of a thaw between India and Pakistan? (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 05:12 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will meet his Indian counterpart, S.M. Krishna, in New York on Sunday, hoping to get a peace process back on track. |
U.N. calls for nuclear disarmament, Obama presides (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 08:35 PM PDT Reuters - The U.N. Security Council, at a summit chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama, unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday that envisaged a world without nuclear weapons. |
Massa to race again in kart event in Brazil (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 07:32 PM PDT Reuters - Ferrari's Felipe Massa, recovering from a life-threatening head injury, said on Thursday he will race again at a popular kart event in Brazil in November. |
ANALYSIS - U.S. plan B for Afghanistan has its own problems (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 05:12 AM PDT Reuters - While U.S. President Barack Obama wrestles with the idea of committing more troops to Afghanistan, a counter proposal is also on the table -- trim American forces and focus narrowly on counter-terrorism. |
Iran tells IAEA it is building 2nd enrichment plant (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 04:12 AM PDT Reuters - Iran has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog it has a second uranium enrichment plant under construction, a belated disclosure sure to heighten Western fears of an Iranian bid for atom bombs. |
India to set up real estate regulator, tribunal-govt (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 04:41 AM PDT Reuters - India aims to set up a real estate regulator and an appellate tribunal to control and facilitate construction and development in its largely unorganised housing sector, the government said on Friday. |
SNAP ANALYSIS - New world economic order takes shape at G20 (Reuters) Posted: 25 Sep 2009 12:19 AM PDT Reuters - The Group of 20 is set to become the premier coordinating body on global economic issues, reflecting a new world economic order in which emerging market countries like China are much more relevant, according to a draft communique. |
Brad Pitt honored for humanitarian work in New Orleans (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 07:32 PM PDT Reuters - Actor Brad Pitt was honored on Thursday for his humanitarian work in helping rebuild hurricane-ravaged New Orleans at former U.S. President Bill Clinton's philanthropic summit, the Clinton Global Initiative. |
Protesters break windows, clash with police at G20 (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 07:45 PM PDT Reuters - Protesters smashed shop windows and threw rocks at police on Thursday as officers in riot gear used pepper gas and batons to disperse their march against capitalism at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh. |