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• Graft crisis may hand India "Eureka" moment on reform (Reuters)
• Maruti halts production at plant on worker issues (Reuters)
• Gaddafi family members flee to Algeria, without him (Reuters)
• NY City back to business after Irene, Vermont flooded (Reuters)
• Obama picks labour expert Krueger as top economist (Reuters)
• Fabregas scores on home league debut for Barca (Reuters)
• Michele Bachmann brushes off hurricane joke (Reuters)
• U.S. researchers broke rules in Guatemala syphilis study (Reuters)
• Robles stripped of gold as more drama grips Daegu (Reuters)
• China jails Tibetan monk for 11 years in immolation case (Reuters)
• Japan's finance minister to be new PM; may not last long (Reuters)
• Low-cost India airlines take price war to overseas routes (Reuters)
• Al Qaeda No 2's death not yet confirmed: Pakistan (Reuters)
• Libyans squeeze Gaddafi bastion, Tripoli revives (Reuters)
• Suicide attack kills at least 24 at Baghdad mosque (Reuters)
• Amputee Pistorius fails to qualify for 400m final (Reuters)
• Bolt shock lingers in Daegu (Reuters)

Graft crisis may hand India "Eureka" moment on reform (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 01:21 PM PDT Reuters - If the optimists are to be believed, India's huge anti-corruption protests may give impetus to a beleaguered government to push its reform process and help ailing economic growth and plummeting business confidence.

Maruti halts production at plant on worker issues (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 01:51 PM PDT Reuters - Maruti Suzuki, India's top car maker, on Monday has halted production at one of its plants in Haryana after it dismissed some workers and asked all others to sign a "good conduct bond", a company spokesman said.

Gaddafi family members flee to Algeria, without him (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 03:06 PM PDT Reuters - The wife of Muammar Gaddafi and other members of his family took refuge in Algeria on Monday but the whereabouts of the fugitive former strongman himself remained a mystery, a week after rebels drove him from power.

NY City back to business after Irene, Vermont flooded (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 06:45 AM PDT Reuters - New York City was back to business on Monday after Hurricane Irene but hundreds of thousands of people who normally travel in from the surrounding area faced a difficult commute as flooding knocked out some transit routes.

Obama picks labour expert Krueger as top economist (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:35 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Monday he had chosen Princeton labour economist Alan Krueger to become the top White House economist and that he will offer a jobs plan next week.

Fabregas scores on home league debut for Barca (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT Reuters - Cesc Fabregas and Alexis Sanchez marked their home debuts for Barcelona in La Liga with goals as the champions crushed Villarreal 5-0 in their opening match of the campaign on Monday.

Michele Bachmann brushes off hurricane joke (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 01:51 PM PDT Reuters - Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann insisted on Monday she was joking when she said a hurricane and quake were God's warning to Washington, in an effort to control the damage from her latest controversial comments.

U.S. researchers broke rules in Guatemala syphilis study (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:35 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. government researchers must have known they were violating ethical standards by deliberately infecting Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis for an experiment in the 1940s, according to a U.S. presidential commission.

Robles stripped of gold as more drama grips Daegu (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:39 AM PDT Reuters - Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles was stripped of gold and glory at the world athletics championships on Monday in a twist every bit as dramatic as Usain Bolt's disqualification from the blue riband 100 metres sprint the night before.

China jails Tibetan monk for 11 years in immolation case (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:16 AM PDT Reuters - A court in southwest China sentenced a Tibetan monk to 11 years in jail for "intentional homicide" for hiding a fellow monk and preventing him from getting treatment after he set himself on fire, state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.

Japan's finance minister to be new PM; may not last long (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 06:33 AM PDT Reuters - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda was chosen on Monday to become the sixth prime minister in five years, but he needs to overcome a divided parliament and deep rifts in the ruling party if he is to make more of a mark than his recent predecessors.

Low-cost India airlines take price war to overseas routes (Reuters) Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:47 PM PDT Reuters - Indian full service airlines, buffeted by high fuel costs and intense competition, face new headwinds on their lucrative international routes as budget carriers launch services with rock-bottom fares.

Al Qaeda No 2's death not yet confirmed: Pakistan (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:26 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan still had no confirmation on Monday that al Qaeda's deputy chief had been killed in a recent U.S. drone strike near the Afghan border, two days after American officials said his death was a major victory in the war against the group.

Libyans squeeze Gaddafi bastion, Tripoli revives (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 09:31 AM PDT Reuters - Libyan forces converged on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte on Monday, hoping to seal their revolution by seizing the last bastions of a fallen but perhaps still dangerous strongman.

Suicide attack kills at least 24 at Baghdad mosque (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:10 AM PDT Reuters - A suicide bomber posing as a beggar detonated his explosives inside a major Baghdad Sunni mosque on Sunday, killing at least 24 people, including an Iraqi lawmaker, just as they finished evening prayers, hospital and local officials said.

Amputee Pistorius fails to qualify for 400m final (Reuters) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 05:41 AM PDT Reuters - There was no Hollywood ending for double amputee Oscar Pistorius in the 400 metres at the world championships on Monday, even if he crossed the line last in his heat to cheers louder than those for most gold medallists.

Bolt shock lingers in Daegu (Reuters) Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:35 PM PDT Reuters - Like the ever-present mist on Daegu's mountains, a gloom lingered over the world athletics championships on Monday morning as the shock of Usain Bolt losing his 100 metres title sank in.

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