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• Saha sets up Chennai's ninth win in IPL (Reuters)
• India not getting "bang for rupee" from poverty schemes (Reuters)
• Hotel maid to testify, IMF chief pressured to quit (Reuters)
• Lady Gaga ousts Oprah on Forbes celebrity power list (Reuters)
• No sign Pakistan knew bin Laden whereabouts - U.S. (Reuters)
• China vows lasting support for troubled Pakistan (Reuters)
• Ahluwalia says not in race for IMF chief post (Reuters)
• Warne fined $50,000 for criticising official in IPL (Reuters)
• Four years on, lustre fades from Indian Premier League (Reuters)
• Brazil woman becomes world's oldest person at 114 (Reuters)
• Sony finds security flaw, takes down website (Reuters)
• Maoists kill seven police, call for general strike (Reuters)
• End to DEPB export tax break draws anger (Reuters)
• Cell therapy aims to prevent transplant rejection (Reuters)
• India, U.S. start $50 mln fund for clean technology (Reuters)
• FIFA steps up fight against $90 bln match-fixing industry (Reuters)
• Over 70 militants attack Pakistani security post, 17 dead (Reuters)

Saha sets up Chennai's ninth win in IPL (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 12:26 PM PDT Reuters - Wriddhiman Saha hit an unbeaten 33-ball 46 to set up a 11-run win for champions Chennai Super Kings against Kochi Tuskers Kerala that took them to the top of the Indian Premier League (IPL) table on Wednesday.

India not getting "bang for rupee" from poverty schemes (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 07:28 AM PDT Reuters - India's key social development programmes, which have formed the core election promises of the ruling Congress party at a cost of over 2 percent of its GDP, are failing to effectively tackle widespread poverty, a World Bank report said on Wednesday.

Hotel maid to testify, IMF chief pressured to quit (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 09:35 AM PDT Reuters - A hotel maid who says IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her was due to testify before a New York grand jury on Wednesday, as the French presidential hopeful faced growing pressure to resign.

Lady Gaga ousts Oprah on Forbes celebrity power list (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 01:05 PM PDT Reuters - Flamboyant pop singer Lady Gaga ousted U.S. media mogul Oprah Winfrey to top this year's Forbes celebrity power list released on Wednesday.

No sign Pakistan knew bin Laden whereabouts - U.S. (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT Reuters - Top U.S. defense officials said on Wednesday there was no evidence Pakistan's leadership was aware that Osama bin Laden was in their country before a U.S. military raid killed him, and they cautioned against punitive action against Islamabad over the incident.

China vows lasting support for troubled Pakistan (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao assured his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani of China's "all-weather friendship" on Wednesday, during a visit that sharply contrasted with anger between Washington and Islamabad.

Ahluwalia says not in race for IMF chief post (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 04:55 AM PDT Reuters - Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Wednesday he was not putting forward his name for the International Monetary Fund chief's post.

Warne fined $50,000 for criticising official in IPL (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 04:41 AM PDT Reuters - Australian cricketer Shane Warne has been fined $50,000 for publicly criticising an official, the Indian Premier League (IPL) said on Wednesday.

Four years on, lustre fades from Indian Premier League (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 03:44 AM PDT Reuters - For a show it was hard to beat: A DJ blasted Bollywood songs, fans decked out in the colours of the home side danced in the aisles, and the wife of billionaire Mukesh Ambani perched on an electric-blue sofa near the Mumbai Indians' dugout.

Brazil woman becomes world's oldest person at 114 (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 02:01 PM PDT Reuters - A Brazilian great-great grandmother, Maria Gomes Valentim, is the world's oldest living person at the age of 114 and 313 days, Guinness World Records on Wednesday.

Sony finds security flaw, takes down website (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 12:01 PM PDT Reuters - Sony Corp said it discovered a security flaw on one of the websites set up to help the 77 million users affected by April's massive data breach reset their passwords.

Maoists kill seven police, call for general strike (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 01:03 AM PDT Reuters - Seven policemen were killed in a Maoist rebel landmine blast in Chhattisgarh, police said on Wednesday, as the insurgents called for a 48-hour strike in six states across the country.

End to DEPB export tax break draws anger (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 10:34 AM PDT Reuters - The government said it will end a tax break for exporters because the $250 billion sector no longer needs it, drawing stinging criticism from manufacturers.

Cell therapy aims to prevent transplant rejection (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 11:32 AM PDT Reuters - A cell treatment to prevent new organs being rejected without the need for lifelong courses of immune drugs is showing promise in mice and may one day make human transplants easier, scientists said.

India, U.S. start $50 mln fund for clean technology (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 02:36 AM PDT Reuters - The United States and India announced a joint $50 million fund to promote research in clean energy technologies on Wednesday, a step seen as part of efforts to whittle down their differences over how to fight climate change.

FIFA steps up fight against $90 bln match-fixing industry (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 07:58 AM PDT Reuters - Soccer match-fixing yields $90 billion annually, a figure equivalent to legal betting, FIFA's security chief Chris Eaton said on Wednesday, emphasising the need to curb corruption in the sport.

Over 70 militants attack Pakistani security post, 17 dead (Reuters) Posted: 18 May 2011 12:24 AM PDT Reuters - More than 70 militants armed with rockets and mortars attacked a security post on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, the latest in an upsurge of violence since Osama bin Laden was killed in the country this month.

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