Police order Anna Hazare freed after protests (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:33 PM PDT Reuters - Police ordered the release of Anna Hazare, the country's leading anti-corruption campaigner, from jail on Tuesday after mounting nationwide protests against his arrest for planning a hunger strike forced a U-turn by beleaguered Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. |
July inflation eases; rate hike still seen (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:39 AM PDT Reuters - The inflation eased in July although the still-high headline number and persistent price pressures in manufactured goods raised the odds that policy will have to stay tight in the economy despite the rising risks to growth. |
Fitch affirms U.S. AAA rating, disagrees with S&P (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 11:02 AM PDT Reuters - Fitch Ratings on Tuesday confirmed the United States' top-notch credit rating and, in blatant disagreement with rival Standard & Poor's, gave a vote of confidence to Washington's deficit-reduction efforts. |
London deemed top fashion capital - survey (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:29 PM PDT Reuters - London has overtaken New York as the world's fashion capital for 2011, fuelled by media interest in late British designer Alexander McQueen and Kate Middleton, according to a survey by the Global Language Monitor. |
Reporter's letter ties Murdoch execs to hacking (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:37 PM PDT Reuters - Many senior executives at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World knew about phone hacking at the British tabloid, according to a 2007 letter written by a reporter which contradicts James Murdoch's denials and drags Britain's prime minister back into the scandal. |
Judge denies Rajaratnam's bid to toss conviction (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:37 PM PDT Reuters - Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam has lost a bid to have his conviction thrown out after he was found guilty on insider trading charges in May. |
Man United plans $1 bln Singapore float - sources (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 08:38 AM PDT Reuters - English Premier League soccer champions Manchester United are looking to raise $1 billion via a stock market flotation in Singapore by the end of 2011, sources with direct knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday. |
Russia sees orders for fifth generation jet from 2015 (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:43 AM PDT Reuters - Russia expects initial orders for its fifth-generation T-50 fighter jet, being developed with India, to be booked from 2015, United Aircraft Corporation's chief said on Tuesday. |
In-flight film "explains" mysteries of female pleasure (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:15 AM PDT Reuters - The in-flight entertainment on some planes run by Australian airline Qantas currently contains a somewhat unusual offering -- a movie that purports to elucidate the mysteries of female sexual pleasure. |
Bharti Airtel suspected of forex rule violation - minister (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:07 AM PDT Reuters - The Directorate of Enforcement is investigating the country's top mobile phone carrier Bharti Airtel for suspected violations of foreign exchange rules, the Minister of State for Finance said on Tuesday. |
DLF hit with $139 mln anti-competition fine (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:45 AM PDT Reuters - DLF, India's largest real estate developer, was served a penalty fine of 6.3 billion rupees ($138.9 million) by the country's competition watchdog on Tuesday after it found the company to have abused its dominant market position. |
Google's bold Motorola bet to reshape Asian phone makers (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:23 AM PDT Reuters - Asian handset makers using Google's Android operating system might turn to rival platforms such as Microsoft's Windows after Google upended the mobile landscape by buying Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion. |
Rebels say Tripoli encircled; U.S. says Scud fired (Reuters) Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:33 PM PDT Reuters - Libyan rebels said they had seized a second strategic town near Tripoli within 24 hours, completing the encirclement of the capital in the boldest advances of their six-month-old uprising against Muammar Gaddafi. |
The songs they are a'changing for The Dylan Project (Reuters) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:43 AM PDT Reuters - When a band of veteran British rock musicians took to the stage with a different take on Bob Dylan's music at the weekend, they were so good someone in the crowd even shouted "Judas". |