Gavaskar says Indian batsmen must go back to school (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 03:03 AM PDT Reuters - India's batsmen should be sent back to the national academy to learn how to deal with short-pitched bowling, former great Sunil Gavaskar said in St Lucia on Friday. |
Nine injured in clash over Posco India project (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 09:32 AM PDT Reuters - At least nine people, including six policemen, were injured in a clash on Saturday as violence flared over a planned steel plant of South Korea's POSCO in Orissa. |
Sole Libya crash survivor returns home to Netherlands (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 06:39 AM PDT Reuters - The nine-year-old sole survivor of a Libyan plane crash flew back home to the Netherlands on Saturday, after he was told his parents and his brother were among the 103 people killed in the disaster. |
Bids for one all-India 3G licence hit $3.5 bln (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 09:32 AM PDT Reuters - Bids for one set of nationwide third-generation (3G) mobile spectrum licences in India reached 158.14 billion rupees ($3.5 billion) on the 31st day of an auction, an indication the government could earn revenue of about 639 billion rupees from the auction. |
BP struggles in latest bid to contain U.S. oil spill (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 10:37 AM PDT Reuters - British energy giant BP's latest effort to contain the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has run into problems, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Saturday, while the company's chief executive appeared to dismiss the disaster as "tiny." |
Thai violence spirals, both sides seek reinforcements (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 01:12 PM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva vowed on Saturday to stop protesters from toppling his government as fighting in Bangkok spiralled into chaotic urban warfare, with both sides calling for reinforcements. |
Australian teenager finishes round-world solo sail (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 12:08 AM PDT Reuters - An Australian teenager sailed into Sydney Harbour to a rapturous welcome on Saturday to complete a solo circumnavigation of the globe that will take her into the history books. |
Reliance Comm Q4 net falls but less than forecast (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 10:28 AM PDT Reuters - Reliance Communications, the country's No. 2 mobile phone operator, reported a 16 percent fall in quarterly profit, as a call price war in the world's fastest-growing mobile market took its toll, but the profit fall was smaller than expected. |
Author shows yoga owes debt to forgotten Iowa man (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 01:43 AM PDT Reuters - Yoga owes its American popularity not to some mystic Indian swami but rather to the toil a century ago of a forgotten white man from Iowa once infamous in the tabloids for his insatiable sexual appetite. |
Alonso crashes Ferrari in final Monaco practice (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2010 04:44 AM PDT Reuters - Fernando Alonso crashed his Ferrari in final practice for the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday after dominating the two previous sessions on the unforgiving street circuit. |
Google says mistakenly got wireless data (Reuters) Posted: 14 May 2010 06:57 PM PDT Reuters - Google Inc said its fleet of cars responsible for photographing streets around the world have for several years accidentally collected personal information -- which a security expert said could include email messages and passwords -- sent by consumers over wireless networks. |
Fighting spreads in Thai capital, 16 dead (Reuters) Posted: 14 May 2010 10:28 PM PDT Reuters - Thai troops fired at protesters on Saturday in a third day of fighting on Bangkok's streets that has killed 16 people as soldiers struggle to isolate a sprawling encampment of demonstrators seeking to topple the government. |
BP scrambles to install device to contain oil spill (Reuters) Posted: 14 May 2010 10:36 PM PDT Reuters - Energy giant BP scrambled on Saturday to make good on its latest attempt to contain oil from a gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico as the region's suffering workers braced for environmental disaster. |
Australian teenager completes round-world solo sail (Reuters) Posted: 14 May 2010 10:11 PM PDT Reuters - An Australian teenager sailed into Sydney Harbour to a rapturous welcome on Saturday to complete a solo circumnavigation of the globe that will take her into the history books. |
Obama slams oil companies for spill blame game (Reuters) Posted: 14 May 2010 06:57 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday slammed the companies involved in a massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill as BP Plc readied a siphoning system to contain a growing environmental disaster. |