Jailed IMF chief faces growing pressure to quit (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 03:47 PM PDT Reuters - Dominique Strauss-Kahn faced growing pressure to quit as head of the IMF, both from inside the Fund and from some European officials, even as France urged no rush to judgment. |
Gilchrist destroys Bangalore bowling in crushing win (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 12:31 PM PDT Reuters - Adam Gilchrist destroyed the Royal Challengers Bangalore attack with an explosive century on Tuesday as Kings XI Punjab crushed the leaders by 111 runs to stay in the hunt for an Indian Premier League playoff berth. |
Pakistan plays China card with Prime Minister's visit (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 07:56 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's visit to China from Tuesday allows Islamabad to show it has another major power to turn to just as relations with the United States have faced intense strain after the killing of Osama bin Laden. |
SBI Q4 net plunges, shares fall (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 07:55 AM PDT Reuters - State Bank of India (SBI) posted an unexpected plunge in net profit, slammed by higher provisions, operating costs and taxes, sending its shares down more than 8 percent. |
Force India stand by Sutil after assault claim (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 12:56 PM PDT Reuters - Force India stood by Adrian Sutil on Tuesday after their German Formula One driver was warned he faced an assault charge following a nightclub incident in China last month. |
"Sperminator" Schwarzenegger scorned over love child (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 05:22 PM PDT Reuters - To fans, he was movie star tough guy the Terminator. Then he turned to politics and was affectionately dubbed the Governator. But after acknowledging that he fathered a child out of wedlock, Arnold Schwarzenegger was swiftly given a new name -- the Sperminator. |
India struggles to perfect art of monsoon forecasting (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 12:56 AM PDT Reuters - Technological wizardry may have improved forecasting of the crucial monsoon rains in India, but success still remains, at best, patchy, making it tough for farmers to plan crops and meet demand in the trillion-dollar economy. |
Sony defends response time to hacker breach (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 03:16 PM PDT Reuters - Sony Corp's CEO was unapologetic about the company's delay in informing the more than 100 million customers of its PlayStation Network whose account information was stolen by hackers last month. |
World Bank: Emerging markets reshaping landscape (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 10:45 AM PDT Reuters - Growth in emerging-market countries is outpacing developed countries so greatly that the global economic landscape will be wholly altered over the next 15 years, a World Bank study on Tuesday predicted. |
Pakistani forces kill five suspected suicide bombers (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 10:45 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistani security forces shot dead five suspected al Qaeda-linked Chechen militants who had tried to carry out a suicide bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday, police and paramilitary officials said. |
Schwarzenegger fathered child outside marriage (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 12:31 PM PDT Reuters - Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, newly estranged from his wife of 25 years and seeking to resume his Hollywood career, has acknowledged fathering a child more than a decade ago with a member of his household staff. |
Cyber-crooks eye Apple Macs with fake anti-malware (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 10:59 AM PDT Reuters - The days when Mac users need not worry about their computers getting infected with malicious software may be coming to an end. |
Status in a bottle, whisky takes off in China (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 09:51 AM PDT Reuters - Darren Hosie knows all the best bars on Shanghai's historic Bund. |
Pakistan's Haider to face PCB disciplinary commmitee (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 09:25 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider could face disciplinary charges for fleeing the team hotel in Dubai and seeking asylum in Britain after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) set up a panel to probe the case. |
BSE Sensex at 8-week low as SBI, ONGC slide (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 05:38 AM PDT Reuters - The BSE Sensex fell 1.1 percent on Tuesday to its lowest close in eight weeks after State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lender, posted an unexpected slump in quarterly profit, spooking investor confidence that has been hobbled by rising interest rates. |
Pakistan military protests after NATO incursion wounds soldiers (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 06:39 AM PDT Reuters - NATO helicopters from Afghanistan intruded into northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding two soldiers, officials said, prompting a protest from the military already seething over the secret U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden. |
IMF chief, denied bail, prompts shock in France (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 05:49 AM PDT Reuters - Dominique Strauss-Kahn spent a third night in a New York jail, prompting expressions of shock among some in France that the IMF chief had been denied bail on attempted rape charges that may scupper his French presidential hopes. |
INTERVIEW - Subsidised fuel may slow IOC's expansion plan - Exec (Reuters) Posted: 17 May 2011 01:21 AM PDT Reuters - India's biggest oil refiner and fuel retailer Indian Oil Corp could slow some domestic expansion projects as the company incurs heavy losses on the sale of subsidised fuel, its head of finance said on Tuesday. |