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• Bihar re-elects Nitish Kumar as CM (Reuters)
• Sonia Gandhi defends PM, parliament deadlocked (Reuters)
• Top banks, financial firm execs held on bribery charges (Reuters)
• 2010 so far "tied for hottest year" (Reuters)
• Galleon's Rajaratnam loses wiretap suppression bid (Reuters)
• Supreme Court defers view on PM role in scandal (Reuters)
• Big progress seen in landmine ban, worries persist (Reuters)
• All 29 trapped New Zealand miners dead - police (Reuters)
• Australia's Ponting ready to assume the burden once more (Reuters)
• Book Talk: Dance bars show "Bombay Noir" (Reuters)
• New Afghanistan parliament could be formed in a week - poll body (Reuters)

Bihar re-elects Nitish Kumar as CM (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:16 AM PST Reuters - Nitish Kumar, who spearheaded the development of one of India's poorest states, was re-elected in a landslide as Bihar's chief minister on Wednesday, in a blow to the ruling Congress party mired in a graft scandal.

Sonia Gandhi defends PM, parliament deadlocked (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:37 AM PST Reuters - Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi, defended Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday over an alleged corruption scandal that has paralysed parliament, quashing speculation that Singh could be forced to resign.

Top banks, financial firm execs held on bribery charges (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 08:07 AM PST Reuters - Eight top officials from Indian banks and financial firms were arrested on Wednesday on charges of taking bribes to grant corporate loans, dealing another blow to Indian markets hit by a multi-billion dollar telecoms scam.

2010 so far "tied for hottest year" (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:04 PM PST Reuters - This year is so far tied for the hottest year in a temperature record dating back to 1850 in a new sign of a warming trend, the three major institutes which calculate global warming estimates told Reuters.

Galleon's Rajaratnam loses wiretap suppression bid (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:47 PM PST Reuters - In a big victory for federal prosecutors, Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam lost his bid to suppress secretly recorded conversations from his pending criminal trial on insider-trading charges.

Supreme Court defers view on PM role in scandal (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:24 AM PST Reuters - The Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed a ruling on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's handling of a telecoms scandal that has undermined confidence in the administration and paralysed parliament.

Big progress seen in landmine ban, worries persist (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 07:15 AM PST Reuters - Major advances in enforcing an international ban on landmines were made in 2009 as casualties fell sharply and Russia reported it was no longer deploying the weapon, campaigners said on Wednesday.

All 29 trapped New Zealand miners dead - police (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:46 AM PST Reuters - All 29 miners trapped underground in a New Zealand mine for five days are believed to be dead following a second explosion, police said on Wednesday, as the government vowed to investigate the disaster.

Australia's Ponting ready to assume the burden once more (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:17 AM PST Reuters - Ricky Ponting will pull on his baggy green cap for his eighth Ashes series on Thursday, once again assuming the burden of his nation's conviction that Australia should not lose to England. At anything. Ever.

Book Talk: Dance bars show "Bombay Noir" (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:49 AM PST Reuters - A television report on Mumbai's dance bars and the controversy over whether they should be banned or not first piqued Sonia Faliero's interest in the vast network of bars in India's financial hub and the women who worked there.

New Afghanistan parliament could be formed in a week - poll body (Reuters) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:26 AM PST Reuters - A new Afghan parliament could be formed within a week after most of the long-delayed results from a Sept. 18 election were released on Wednesday, an election official said.

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