2011年5月31日星期二

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


U.S. witness says ISI chiefs unaware of Mumbai plot (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 02:27 PM PDT

A municipal worker sweeps a pavement in front of the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the sites of the 2008 militant attacks, in Mumbai May 31, 2011. REUTERS/Vivek PrakashReuters - A former U.S. drug informant who said he worked with Pakistan's intelligence agency on planning the 2008 Pakistani militant attack on Mumbai testified on Tuesday that agency higher-ups were unaware of the plot.


Merkel lands in India after Iran blocks plane (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:58 AM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media at a news conference on the report of the so-called Ethics Commission for a Secure Energy Supply in Berlin May 30, 2011. REUTERS/Wolfgang RattayReuters - Iran briefly refused to allow a plane carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel to India to cross its air space on Tuesday, forcing the aircraft to circle over Turkey for almost two hours before obtaining clearance.


India, Pakistan fail to make progress on glacier standoff (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 06:02 AM PDT

India's Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar (L) speaks with his Pakistani counterpart Lieutenant-General (retired) Syed Athar Ali during their meeting in New Delhi May 30, 2011. REUTERS/Indian Defence Ministry/HandoutReuters - India and Pakistan failed on Tuesday to break ice on how to demilitarise the world's highest battlefield in the Himalayan region in a sign of how far apart the nuclear-armed rivals are even on less contentious issues.


Duncan Fletcher looking forward to developing new talent (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 08:33 AM PDT

India's new cricket coach Duncan Fletcher speaks during a news conference in Chennai May 13, 2011. REUTERS/Babu/FilesReuters - New India cricket coach Duncan Fletcher, who guided England to their 2005 Ashes triumph, said on Tuesday he was looking forward to developing the young talent in an untried side who will tour West Indies next month.


Missing Pakistani journalist found dead - police (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 09:36 AM PDT

Syed Salim Shahzad, the bureau chief of online Asia Times newspaper, is seen here in an undated photo obtained from his family May 31, 2011. REUTERS/Family HandoutReuters - A Pakistani journalist who went missing two days ago from the capital Islamabad was found dead in eastern Pakistan, police said on Tuesday, in a case likely to revive debate about the freedom of the press in the country.


At least 31 dead in Assam wedding bus crash (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2011 09:02 PM PDT

Reuters - At least 31 people were killed in Assam early on Tuesday when a bus carrying more than 40 people returning from a marriage party skidded off a wooden bridge and fell into a pond, police said.

Austrian tennis player Koellerer banned for life for match-fixing (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 10:16 AM PDT

Austria's Daniel Koellerer throws his racket during his Davis Cup tennis match against Slovakia's Lukas Lacko in Bad Gleichenberg March 5, 2010. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler/FilesReuters - Austrian tennis player Daniel Koellerer has been banned from the sport for life for match-fixing, the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) said on Tuesday.


Hunger crisis worsens, food system broken - Oxfam (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 07:04 AM PDT

Ranbir, twenty-six-months, who weighs 5 kg and suffers from severe malnutrition, waits for food at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh April 7, 2010. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause/FilesReuters - Food prices could double in the next 20 years and demand will soar as the world struggles to raise output via a failing system, international charity Oxfam said on Tuesday, warning of worsening global hunger.


Smoking could kill 8 million a year by 2030 - WHO (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 04:48 AM PDT

Cigarette butts fill an ashtray outside a construction site in Central, a business district in Hong Kong, October 18, 2006.  REUTERS/Paul Yeung/FilesReuters - Tobacco will kill nearly six million people this year, including 600,000 non-smokers, because governments are not doing enough to persuade people to quit or protect others from second-hand smoke, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.


India's economy grows at slowest pace in five quarters (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 07:04 AM PDT

A worker uses a gas cutter at a metal workshop in Mumbai December 1, 2010. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - India's economy grew at its slowest annual pace in five quarters in January to March as rising interest rates crimped consumption and investment, suggesting the central bank could temper the pace of further tightening to tackle stubbornly high inflation.


Descendants mark centenary of Titanic launch (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 07:42 AM PDT

A scene from the epic romance Reuters - Descendants of some of the 1,517 people who died when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank held a minute's silence on Tuesday at the spot where the liner was launched with huge fanfare a century ago.


Haqqani: From White House guest to staunch U.S. enemy (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2011 11:55 PM PDT

File photo of Jalaluddin Haqqani (R), pointing to a map of Afghanistan during a visit to Islamabad, Pakistan, October 19, 2001 while his son Naziruddin (L) looks on.  REUTERS/STR New/FilesReuters - Pakistan is gearing up for a military offensive against North Waziristan, a local newspaper reported, an operation that would pit the army against some of the world's most dangerous militants in the tribal region along the Afghan border.


Federer ready to tackle Monfils and French crowd (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2011 08:09 PM PDT

Roger Federer of Switzerland returns the ball to his compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka during the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. May 29, 2011. REUTERS/Charles PlatiauReuters - Roger Federer, emboldened by not dropping a set at the French Open, must summon more powers of persuasion to win over the Roland Garros crowd if he beats home hope Gael Monfils in the quarter-finals later on Tuesday.


Pressure mounts on FIFA over scandal; Blatter defiant (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2011 11:26 PM PDT

FIFA President Sepp Blatter addresses a news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich May 30, 2011. Blatter denied soccer's governing body was in crisis on Monday, saying his organisation would solve any Reuters - Two heavyweight sponsors turned up the heat on FIFA over a deepening corruption scandal while the world soccer body's president, Sepp Blatter, refused to accept the game was in crisis.


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