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• Cricket row lands Shashi Tharoor in trouble (Reuters)
• The day Lehman got a love note from a hedgie (Reuters)
• Western forecasts signal good monsoon in India (Reuters)
• Apple delays iPad's international launch (Reuters)
• China steps up quake rescue effort as death toll hits 589 (Reuters)
• Kuwait sets mimimum wage for first time (Reuters)
• POLL - India's growth prospects pick up (Reuters)
• UK inquiry clears climate scientists in email row (Reuters)
• Red shirts take over "richest part" of Bangkok (Reuters)
• SPECIAL REPORT - Are U.S. regulators dropping the ball on biocrops? (Reuters)
• Quake kills 400; destroys homes on Tibet plateau (Reuters)
• PM tells Obama that Iran sanctions will hit poor (Reuters)
• Romance of books key in digital age, says Penguin CEO (Reuters)
• Obama's nuclear summit: Good plan, action needed (Reuters)
• Erratic monsoon baffles forecasters (Reuters)
• Jaswant Singh calls for talks with Pakistan (Reuters)

Cricket row lands Shashi Tharoor in trouble (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 07:53 AM PDT Reuters - Junior Foreign Minister Shashi Tharoor, among the country's few younger, reformist politicians, faces calls to resign after opposition allegations of corruption in winning a $333 million bid for a cricket league franchise in India.

The day Lehman got a love note from a hedgie (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 05:41 PM PDT Reuters - In spring 2008, Lehman Brothers didn't have too many friends on Wall Street.

Western forecasts signal good monsoon in India (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:48 AM PDT Reuters - Weather scientists from the United States and Britain expect normal monsoon rains in India this year, reinforcing the top local forecaster's view that chances of another drought in the country are remote.

Apple delays iPad's international launch (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 08:27 AM PDT Reuters - Apple Inc said on Wednesday it would delay for one month the international roll-out of its iPad tablet computer, due to heavy demand and swift sales after its launch in the United States.

China steps up quake rescue effort as death toll hits 589 (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:03 PM PDT Reuters - The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southwest China has risen to 589, Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, with hundreds of homes and some schools toppled in the remote mountainous Tibetan Plateau.

Kuwait sets mimimum wage for first time (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 10:06 AM PDT Reuters - Kuwait on Wednesday introduced a minimum wage of 60 dinars ($208.9) a month, in a move that affects hundreds of thousands of Asian workers.

POLL - India's growth prospects pick up (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:48 AM PDT Reuters - India's economy is seen growing at a faster pace in 2010/11 than earlier expected, supported by a global recovery, domestic demand and a double-digit expansion in factory output, a Reuters poll shows.

UK inquiry clears climate scientists in email row (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 09:07 AM PDT Reuters - An inquiry cleared British climate researchers of wrongdoing on Wednesday after their emails were hacked, leaked and held up by sceptics as evidence they had exaggerated the case for man-made global warming.

Red shirts take over "richest part" of Bangkok (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 08:42 AM PDT Reuters - Thailand's "red shirts" congregated in their tens of thousands at an upmarket Bangkok shopping district on Wednesday, preparing a "final battleground" in their fight to oust army-backed Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.

SPECIAL REPORT - Are U.S. regulators dropping the ball on biocrops? (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 09:24 AM PDT Reuters - To read this story in PDF format, click

Quake kills 400; destroys homes on Tibet plateau (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 07:24 AM PDT Reuters - A strong earthquake toppled hundreds of homes and some schools in the remote mountainous Tibetan Plateau of southwest China on Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring thousands.

PM tells Obama that Iran sanctions will hit poor (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:51 PM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Manhoman Singh said on Tuesday he told U.S. President Barack Obama that New Delhi opposed sanctions against Iran over its nuclear plans and such measures often only affected the poor.

Romance of books key in digital age, says Penguin CEO (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:27 PM PDT Reuters - With the excitement around the launch of Apple's iPad and the growing popularity of other digital devices, it is a challenge to retain the romance of the printed book, according to the head of publisher Penguin.

Obama's nuclear summit: Good plan, action needed (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:53 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama's nuclear security summit took a step toward lowering the risk of a terrorist group getting an atomic weapon, but real progress depends on countries keeping the promises they made.

Erratic monsoon baffles forecasters (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:53 PM PDT Reuters - Predicting monsoon rains, vital for India's farm output and economic growth, remains a challenge for the country as its forecasting skills are inadequate, scientists and weather officials said on Tuesday.

Jaswant Singh calls for talks with Pakistan (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:56 PM PDT Reuters - Former Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh on Tuesday called on Pakistan and India to relaunch a tentative peace process suspended after a 2008 militant attack on India's commercial capital Mumbai.

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