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• Third uninvited guest attended White House dinner (Reuters)
• Indebted Dubai puts on brave face for tower opening (Reuters)
• Sept. 11 conspirator loses U.S. court appeal (Reuters)
• Finmin adviser plays down tightening worry (Reuters)
• Australia condemns Indian student death (Reuters)
• Wounded Tiger lies low, no timetable for return (Reuters)
• Manufacturing growth up for 1st time in 3 months (Reuters)
• Eyeing M&A, Reliance raises $577 million (Reuters)
• Eighteen feared dead as boat capsizes in West Bengal (Reuters)
• New U.S. air traveler screening focuses on 14 nations (Reuters)
• Malaysia "Allah" row spills on to Facebook (Reuters)
• U.S. growth prospects deemed bleak in new decade (Reuters)
• Dubai says world's tallest tower is 828 m high (Reuters)
• White House: No 'smoking gun' in airplane plot (Reuters)
• Economy to grow at over 7.5 pct in FY10 - Advisor (Reuters)
• "Hurt Locker," French films win U.S. critics awards (Reuters)
• Economic downturn puts freeze on Antarctic tourism (Reuters)
• Reliance Industries Ltd raises $559.5 mln in share sale - sources (Reuters)
• 2010 resolutions to set cash registers ringing - study (Reuters)

Third uninvited guest attended White House dinner (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 05:36 PM PST Reuters - A third uninvited guest made it into a White House state dinner in honor of the Indian prime minister, but there is no evidence the person had contact with the president or first lady, the Secret Service said on Monday.

Indebted Dubai puts on brave face for tower opening (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 11:00 AM PST Reuters - Dubai opened the world's tallest structure in a glitzy ceremony meant to put a brave face on crushing debt woes, leading some to wonder whether the tower is the emirate's crowning glory or its last hurrah.

Sept. 11 conspirator loses U.S. court appeal (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:42 PM PST Reuters - Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court on criminal charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, lost a bid on Monday to overturn his guilty plea and his sentence of life in prison.

Finmin adviser plays down tightening worry (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 08:49 AM PST Reuters - India does not need to tighten monetary policy now and risk stalling a nascent economic recovery as inflation pressure was mainly caused by high food prices, the chief economic adviser to the finance ministry said on Monday.

Australia condemns Indian student death (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 07:05 PM PST Reuters - Australia condemned on Monday the killing of an Indian student in Melbourne, as India called for an end to the spate of attacks against Indian students which has damaged Australia's multi-million dollar foreign student sector.

Wounded Tiger lies low, no timetable for return (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 04:49 AM PST Reuters - For the second year in a row, Tiger Woods will be a notable absentee from the early part of the PGA Tour schedule but this time it is entirely due to self-inflicted wounds by the world number one.

Manufacturing growth up for 1st time in 3 months (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:48 PM PST Reuters - The rate of growth in manufacturing rose for the first time in three months in December, with activity reaching its highest since May on sharp rises in new work and output, a survey showed.

Eyeing M&A, Reliance raises $577 million (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:27 AM PST Reuters - Reliance Industries raised $577 million through a share sale, the second big equity fund raising in under four months for India's largest listed company as it looks to buy bankrupt petrochemicals firm LyondellBasell.

Eighteen feared dead as boat capsizes in West Bengal (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 10:45 PM PST Reuters - At least 18 New Year's revellers, including seven children, were feared drowned after an overcrowded boat capsized in a river in eastern India, officials said on Monday.

New U.S. air traveler screening focuses on 14 nations (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 07:31 PM PST Reuters - Air travelers from Nigeria, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and nine other countries will face full-body pat downs before boarding airliners under new security screening procedures targeting foreign passengers announced by the United States on Sunday.

Malaysia "Allah" row spills on to Facebook (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:43 AM PST Reuters - More than 43,000 Malaysians protested online over a court ruling allowing a Catholic paper to use the word "Allah" to describe the Christian God, signalling growing Islamic anger in this mostly Muslim Southeast Asian country.

U.S. growth prospects deemed bleak in new decade (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 06:44 PM PST Reuters - A dismal job market, a crippled real estate sector and hobbled banks will keep a lid on U.S. economic growth over the coming decade, some of the nation's leading economists said on Sunday.

Dubai says world's tallest tower is 828 m high (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 08:58 AM PST Reuters - Dubai opened the world's tallest structure on Monday, and a statement said it was 828 metres (2,717 ft) high.

White House: No 'smoking gun' in airplane plot (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 06:44 PM PST Reuters - A top White House official said on Sunday the plot to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day exposed errors but he played down the need for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. security system.

Economy to grow at over 7.5 pct in FY10 - Advisor (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:29 AM PST Reuters - The economy is expected to grow at more than 7.5 percent in the fiscal year ending March, boosted by better growth in the December quarter, the finance ministry's chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu said on Monday.

"Hurt Locker," French films win U.S. critics awards (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 06:53 PM PST Reuters - "The Hurt Locker," an independently made film about U.S. bomb disposal experts in Iraq, picked up several more awards on Sunday when the National Society of Film Critics chose it as the best film of 2009, solidifying its status among favored Oscar contenders.

Economic downturn puts freeze on Antarctic tourism (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:05 PM PST Reuters - The economic downturn has frozen tourists' enthusiasm to travel to one of Australia's most remote and inhospitable Antarctic outposts with tourism operators reporting a sharp downturn in bookings.

Reliance Industries Ltd raises $559.5 mln in share sale - sources (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:10 PM PST Reuters - Reliance Industries Ltd raised 26 billion rupees ($559.5 million) by selling 25 million shares at a 5 percent discount to Life Insurance Corp of India, two sources with knowledge of the deal said on Monday.

2010 resolutions to set cash registers ringing - study (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 06:34 PM PST Reuters - If we all stick to our New Year's resolutions, there will be more healthy, charitable, better educated and well travelled people in 2010 than last year, according to a forecast by an Australian market research firm.

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