2010年5月5日星期三

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Giant dome, fires aimed at huge U.S. oil spill (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:49 PM PDT

Oil containment booms guard the marshes outside of Shell Beach, Louisiana May 4, 2010. REUTERS/Joe MitchellReuters - Workers toiled above and below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday to plug a gushing oil leak and protect the U.S. shoreline in one of the biggest spill containment efforts ever mounted.


Europe leaders warn of contagion; 3 dead in Greece (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 03:24 PM PDT

A teller counts euro banknotes inside a National Bank of Greece branch in Athens February 10, 2010. REUTERS/John Kolesidis/FilesReuters - European leaders warned on Wednesday that the euro zone debt crisis could spread like a bushfire beyond Greece, and investors sold stocks and the euro as Greek anti-austerity unrest claimed its first lives.


New York bomb suspect talking, probe eyes foreign ties (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 01:56 PM PDT

Crime scene investigators examine a Nissan Pathfinder sport utility vehicle that was packed with bomb materials in New York's Times Square May 1, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - The suspected Times Square bomber is cooperating with investigators who want details about his contacts in Pakistan, postponing indefinitely any court appearance, law enforcement sources said on Wednesday.


Wal-Mart widow tops world's richest mothers list (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:13 PM PDT

Shoppers cart their purchases from a Wal-Mart store in Alexandria, Virginia November 12, 2009. Christy Walton, the widow of John Walton who was the son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, tops the list of 70 women around the globe who will celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday as billionaires. REUTERS/Richard Clement/FilesReuters - Having children isn't a barrier to making a billion dollars as eight women on a new list of the world's richest mothers showed.


Facebook privacy snafu exposed user chats (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:05 PM PDT

A Facebook page is displayed on a computer screen in Brussels April 21, 2010. Private chats between some Facebook users were briefly viewable by other users on Wednesday, an embarassing technical glitch for a company facing growing criticism over Reuters - Private chats between some Facebook users were briefly viewable by other users on Wednesday, an embarassing technical glitch for a company facing growing criticism over "sloppy" privacy protection.


Asian consumers most upbeat, India consumer sentiment highest - Nielsen (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 05:06 PM PDT

A customer shops inside a grocery store in Kolkata February 19, 2010. Consumer sentiment was highest in India, followed by Indonesia and Norway, according to the survey conducted by the New York-based Nielsen Company in March. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal/FilesReuters - Consumer confidence is strongest in emerging Asia Pacific and Latin America, while most Europeans remain edgy on the pace of their economic recovery and the euro zone debt crisis, a global survey showed on Thursday.


Nepal asks for UN peace-monitoring mission to stay (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Maoist activists burn an effigy of Defense Minister Vidya Bhandari in Kathmandu May 5, 2010. Nepal, engulfed in a political crisis, asked the United Nations on Wednesday to keep its peace-monitoring mission in place there even though the world body had hoped to start withdrawing it later this month.  REUTERS/Navesh ChitrakarReuters - Nepal, engulfed in a political crisis, asked the United Nations on Wednesday to keep its peace-monitoring mission in place there even though the world body had hoped to start withdrawing it later this month.


Plausible links seen between bomb suspect and Taliban (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 05:06 PM PDT

A NYPD officer in an bomb suit examines a Nissan Pathfinder sport utility vehicle parked in New York's Times Square May 1, 2010. U.S. investigators see Reuters - U.S. investigators see "plausible links" between the suspected Times Square bomber and the Taliban in Pakistan movement but a final determination has yet to be made, a U.S. official on Wednesday.


Bids for one all-India 3G licence reach $2.46 bln (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 08:51 AM PDT

A model poses with mobile phones at a launch in Kolkata, November 24, 2004. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/FilesReuters - Bids for one set of nationwide third-generation (3G) mobile spectrum licences in India reached 110.47 billion rupees ($2.46 billion) on the 22nd day of an auction, government data showed on Wednesday.


Accused NY bomber from respectable background (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 08:45 AM PDT

FBI investigators photograph the rear entrance of the former home of Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad on Sheridan Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, May 4, 2010.  REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - Like some notorious al Qaeda figures, the Pakistani-American charged in connection with the botched bomb in New York's Times Square comes from a respectable background that provides no hints of radicalism.


Picasso piece sets record for art sold at auction (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2010 11:30 PM PDT

Pablo Picasso's 1932 'Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust' is seen at Christie's auction house in New York April 16, 2010. Picasso's Reuters - Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" sold for more than $106 million at Christie's on Tuesday, setting a record for art sold at auction.


World's oldest person dies at 114 - Guinness records (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 01:34 AM PDT

Reuters - The world's oldest person, a Japanese woman, has died at the age of 114, Guinness World Records said.

Italy hosts its first divorce fair (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 09:40 AM PDT

Reuters - Italy is holding its first divorce fair, offering services such as life coaching and beauty advice to a booming number of separating couples in the Catholic country.

China's Huawei working to allay Indian security fears (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:15 AM PDT

A general view shows the headquarters of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in Shenzhen, Guangdong province in this June 29, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies said on Wednesday it was ensuring its networks were secure, as India reiterated it has not banned Chinese-made telecoms gear though added there were restrictions due to security reasons.


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