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• U.S. witness says ISI chiefs unaware of Mumbai plot (Reuters)
• Merkel lands in India after Iran blocks plane (Reuters)
• India, Pakistan fail to make progress on glacier standoff (Reuters)
• Duncan Fletcher looking forward to developing new talent (Reuters)
• Missing Pakistani journalist found dead - police (Reuters)
• At least 31 dead in Assam wedding bus crash (Reuters)
• Austrian tennis player Koellerer banned for life for match-fixing (Reuters)
• Hunger crisis worsens, food system broken - Oxfam (Reuters)
• Smoking could kill 8 million a year by 2030 - WHO (Reuters)
• India's economy grows at slowest pace in five quarters (Reuters)
• Descendants mark centenary of Titanic launch (Reuters)
• Haqqani: From White House guest to staunch U.S. enemy (Reuters)
• Federer ready to tackle Monfils and French crowd (Reuters)
• Pressure mounts on FIFA over scandal; Blatter defiant (Reuters)

U.S. witness says ISI chiefs unaware of Mumbai plot (Reuters) Posted: 31 May 2011 02:27 PM PDT Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 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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