2011年7月24日星期日

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Iran foreign minister to visit India amid oil row (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 09:52 PM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi adjusts his glasses during a news conference in the Austrian Foreign Ministry in Vienna, July 12, 2011. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/FilesReuters - Iran's foreign minister will visit India in the coming weeks, news agency ISNA quoted an official on Saturday as saying, as the two countries seek a way of ending a standoff over unmet payments for oil exports.


India plans environmental clearances regulator (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 04:50 AM PDT

A supporter of Communist Party of India (CPI) holds a placard during a protest in Hyderabad June 24, 2011 against the planned construction of a $12 billion steel mill by South Korea's POSCO in Orissa.   REUTERS/Krishnendu HalderReuters - India will soon introduce a potentially game-changing independent regulator to watch over environmental clearances for industrial projects, the prime minister said on Sunday, addressing a key issue dogging the country's economic rise.


England need nine wickets to win first test (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 11:57 AM PDT

India's Ishant Sharma (C) is congratulated after the dismissal of England's Ian Bell during the first cricket test match at Lord's cricket ground in London July 24, 2011. REUTERS/Philip BrownReuters - England required nine further wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series against world number one side India at the close of the penultimate day of the first test at Lord's on Sunday.


Norway mourns victims of anti-Islam "Crusader" (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:03 AM PDT

A Norwegian national flag is seen among flowers to mourn the victims of a shooting spree on an island in the countryside and a bomb attack in the capital Oslo July 23, 2011. REUTERS/Wolfgang RattayReuters - Norway mourned on Sunday 93 people killed in a shooting spree and car bombing by a Norwegian who saw his attacks as "atrocious, but necessary" to defeat liberal immigration policies and the spread of Islam.


Fans snap up Winehouse albums after "Rehab" singer's death (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:30 AM PDT

Late British singer Amy Winehouse performs during the Reuters - Fans rushed to download Amy Winehouse's two albums after the beehive-haired British soul singer became the latest in a grim tally of rock stars to die at the seemingly cursed age of 27.


China inspects electronics stores after fake Apple shops report (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 09:26 PM PDT

Customers and employees are seen from the exterior of a fake Apple Store in Kunming, Yunnan province July 22, 2011.  REUTERS/Aly SongReuters - Chinese industrial and commercial authorities in Kunming have started to inspect all of the southwestern city's electronics shops after an American blogger wrote about fake Apple stores, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.


Sri Lanka's war-weary north votes amid intimidation, mistrust (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:04 PM PDT

A Tamil woman shows her ink-marked finger after she cast her vote during a local government election in Jaffna about 304 km (184 miles) north of Colombo, July 23, 2011. REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawatteReuters - Citizens in Sri Lanka's old war zone voted for local leaders for the first time in at least a dozen years, in a poll marked by intimidation, vote-buying and scepticism by the mostly Tamil electorate of any kind of post-war political change.


Britain's "Rehab" singer Amy Winehouse dies aged 27 (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 07:32 PM PDT

Funeral workers carry the body of Amy Winehouse outside her house in London July 23, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthReuters - Amy Winehouse, one of the most talented singers of her generation whose hit song "Rehab" summed up her struggles with addiction, died in London on Saturday at the age of 27.


Dravid fights rearguard battle in first test (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 07:31 PM PDT

India's Rahul Dravid celebrates reaching his century during the first cricket test match against England at Lord's cricket ground in London July 23, 2011. REUTERS/Philip BrownReuters - Rahul Dravid ensured India avoided the follow-on in the first test against dominant England at Lord's on Saturday with an unbeaten 103 after Sachin Tendulkar had again fallen cheaply at world cricket's headquarters.


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