Tiger Woods taking 'indefinite break' from golf (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:33 PM PST Reuters - Tiger Woods said on Friday he would take an "indefinite break" from professional golf, acknowledging the disappointment and hurt his "infidelity" had caused his family. |
Sreesanth in hospital with swine flu (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:44 PM PST Reuters - Indian paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth is suffering from swine flu and will miss Saturday's second and final Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka. |
Michael Jackson to get lifetime achievement Grammy (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:21 PM PST Reuters - Singer Michael Jackson next month will receive a posthumous Grammy for lifetime achievement, along with six other artists, organizers of the music industry's top awards said. |
Indian barriers cost U.S. farmers millions - U.S. study (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:49 PM PST Reuters - U.S. farmers and food manufacturers lose millions of dollars in sales to India each year because of that country's high tariffs and other trade barriers, a U.S. trade panel said on Friday. |
Woods wins UK court ban against nude, sex photos (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:51 AM PST Reuters - Golfer Tiger Woods, fighting to fend off intense media scrutiny over allegations he cheated on his wife, has won a British court order banning publication in Britain of any photos or video showing him nude or having sex. |
Draft deal gives lift to flagging climate talks (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:36 PM PST Reuters - A draft climate pact unveiled on Friday revived hopes that U.N. talks might be able to pin down an international deal to fight global warming, but developing nations said they needed more cash from the rich. |
Text of statement from Tiger Woods (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:48 PM PST Reuters - Here is the full text of a statement by golfer Tiger Woods issued on his website, www.tigerwoods.com |
Uttar Pradesh farmers outsmart nature, adapt to weather shifts (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:30 AM PST Reuters - As world leaders and top scientists in Copenhagen debate how to deal with climate change, farmers a world away in flood-prone areas of northern India are taking it into their own hands to adapt to shifts in the weather. |
Pakistani, U.S. agents interrogate five Americans (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 06:44 AM PST Reuters - U.S. FBI agents and their Pakistani colleagues interrogated on Friday five young American Muslims who wanted to go to Afghanistan to fight U.S.-led forces, Pakistani officials said. |
Telangana statehood sparks more calls, Congress cornered (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:09 AM PST Reuters - India's plan to carve a Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh on Friday sparked statehood demands in other parts of Asia's third largest economy in a new challenge to the Congress party-led government. |
Reservoirs swell; crops and power to gain (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:13 AM PST Reuters - Water levels in India's main reservoirs rose above average on Thursday, the first time since end July, reducing the risk to the wheat and rapeseed crops from a failed monsoon and boosting hydro power supply. |
POLL - November WPI seen up 4.14 pct on year (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:50 AM PST Reuters - India's annual wholesale price index probably rose more than 4 percent in November, fuelled by accelerating food prices, but this is unlikely to force the central bank to tighten policy this month. |
Apple countersues Nokia for patent infringement (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 09:51 AM PST Reuters - Apple Inc said it filed a countersuit against Nokia, claiming that the Finnish cellphone maker has pursued anti-competitive business practices and infringed on more than a dozen of its patents. |
Ukraine cities get UEFA's Euro 2012 green light (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 07:31 AM PST Reuters - Ukrainian cities Kiev, Lviv, Donetsk and Kharkiv will host matches in the 2012 European soccer championship, UEFA said on Friday, with the capital confirmed as the venue for the final. |
Oct industrial surges, rate dilemma seen (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:44 AM PST Reuters - India's industrial output in October rose more than 10 percent from a year earlier, suggesting the economy maintained a healthy growth rate after a strong September quarter. |
Govt plan to create Telangana state hits businesses (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 06:36 AM PST Reuters - A unit of global drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline temporarily halted operations in Andhra Pradesh on Friday as the fallout from a government plan to carve up the southern state mounted. |
Cotton farmers cut sales on price rise hopes (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:16 AM PST Reuters - India's cotton supply is likely to be tight in the next few weeks as farmers in most states are stocking their produce, hoping that prices will rise further, growers and traders said. |
India's 3G spectrum auction on schedule - minister (Reuters) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 09:30 PM PST Reuters - India will conduct the auction for 3G wireless spectrum as scheduled, Communications Minister Andimuthu Raja, said on Friday. |
Hope India's industrial growth sustains - Ahluwalia (Reuters) Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:44 AM PST Reuters - The deputy chairman of India's planing commission said on Friday he hoped the momentum in the country's industrial output would be sustained in coming months. |