Tendulkar guides India to victory (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 09:03 AM PST Reuters - Sachin Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 96 to set up India's seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the third one-day international on Monday. India took a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. |
Drug tests awaited on Brittany Murphy death (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 05:44 PM PST Reuters - An autopsy on the body of actress Brittany Murphy was completed on Monday, but authorities said the exact cause of death will not be known until toxicology tests are finished in four to six weeks. |
Texting driver 6 times more likely to crash - study (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 06:34 PM PST Reuters - Text-messaging drivers are six times more likely to get into an accident than drivers who do not text, researchers said in a study released on Monday. |
Messi wins FIFA World Player of Year award (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 01:29 PM PST Reuters - Lionel Messi became the first Argentine to win the FIFA World Player of the Year award on Monday. |
Rajaratnam, Chiesi plead innocent in Galleon case (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 05:12 PM PST Reuters - Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and co-defendant Danielle Chiesi asserted their innocence on Monday to charges of securities fraud, in what U.S. prosecutors describe as the biggest hedge fund insider trading case ever. |
Food inflation not a monetary issue - fin secy (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 06:35 AM PST Reuters - India's food-price inflation cannot be tackled through monetary and other policy steps, while inflationary expectations will not stay long, the country's top policy advisors and government officials said on Monday. |
3G auction to start as scheduled on Jan 14 - min (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 06:11 AM PST Reuters - India, the world's fastest growing mobile market, plans to start auctioning third-generation wireless spectrum as scheduled from Jan. 14, Telecom Minister Andimuthu Raja said on Monday. |
Boris Becker says he sympathises with Tiger Woods (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 03:20 AM PST Reuters - Former tennis champion Boris Becker says he sympathises with Tiger Woods, whose life is in turmoil after he admitted cheating on his wife. |
Myanmar court agrees to hear Suu Kyi appeal (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 03:10 AM PST Reuters - Myanmar's Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal against the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was sentenced in August to a further 18 months in detention for breaking a security law. |
India's last "dancing", endangered bear set free (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 12:34 AM PST Reuters - Raju the bear will never have to smoke cigarettes or dance on his hind legs under the hot sun again thanks to a multinational project to save an endangered species and end a cruel centuries-old tradition in India. |
Bhutan king visits India with economic ties on agenda (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 05:00 AM PST Reuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Bhutan's young new King is on a week-long visit to India, his first official trip aimed at cementing the new democracy's relations with an Asian powerhouse that pays for a nearly a quarter of the government's budget. |
"Clueless" star Brittany Murphy dead at 32 (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2009 09:37 PM PST Reuters - U.S. actress Brittany Murphy, who co-starred in such films as "Clueless" and "Girl, Interrupted" but saw her career wane in recent years, died in Los Angeles on Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest in her bathroom, officials said. She was 32. |
India v Sri Lanka scoreboard - third ODI (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 08:39 AM PST Reuters - Scoreboard after the third one-day international between India and Sri Lanka in Cuttack on Monday. |
Brazil needle victim recovers, outrage at cruelty (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 07:37 AM PST Reuters - A Brazilian toddler is making a good recovery after surgery to remove the first of 31 sewing needles pushed into his body by his stepfather in a cruel act that has enraged locals, the hospital said on Saturday. |
Sri Lanka v India scoreboard - third ODI (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 04:41 AM PST Reuters - Scoreboard after Sri Lanka's innings in the third one-day international against India in Cuttack on Monday. |
Sensex falls 0.7 pct to 6-wk closing low (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 04:09 AM PST Reuters - Indian shares fell 0.71 percent on Monday, a third straight fall taking them to a six-week closing low, with Larsen & Toubro and Bharti Airtel leading the losses as fund activity wound down into year-end. |
China says "development right" key in climate talks (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 03:15 AM PST Reuters - China will treat talks on a binding global climate change pact in 2010 as a struggle over the "right to develop", a Chinese official said, signaling more tough deal-making will follow the Copenhagen summit. |
Sri Lanka 239 all out v India - third ODI (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 04:35 AM PST Reuters - Sri Lanka were all out for 239 from 44.2 overs after choosing to bat first in the third one-day international against India on Monday. |
Nepal crippled in Maoist general strike (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 12:08 AM PST Reuters - Thousands of supporters of Nepal's Maoist former rebels demonstrated across the nascent republic on Monday, the second day of a strike that has highlighted the fragility of a three-year peace process. |
Visual effects firm Prime Focus gets "Avatar" boost (Reuters) Posted: 21 Dec 2009 01:44 AM PST Reuters - Shares in the firm Prime Focus jumped 10 percent on news it received $5 million for contributing visual effects to Hollywood's 3-D sci-fi extravaganza, "Avatar," which opened this weekend worldwide. |