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• Rescuers find more casualties of Himalayan quake (Reuters)
• New bird flu outbreak reported in India (Reuters)
• Gas leakage at industry plant near Mumbai kills 4 - reports (Reuters)
• EXCLUSIVE - Facebook seeks exec to build Hollywood, media ties (Reuters)
• Afghan peace council head killed in Kabul (Reuters)
• Taliban says won Rabbani trust in order to kill him (Reuters)
• At least 26 Shi'ite pilgrims killed in Pakistan (Reuters)
• Google+ opens up, takes fight to Facebook (Reuters)
• IMF trims growth forecasts for India, China (Reuters)
• CBI mulls case against Reliance Industries - report (Reuters)
• South Asia floods spare crops but Pakistan cotton hit (Reuters)
• Firms jostle in 'crazy' world of India infra bids (Reuters)
• Trade law hits raw note for US guitar maker Gibson (Reuters)
• Food security bill to cost $21 bln - report (Reuters)
• S&P cuts Italy ratings one notch, outlook negative (Reuters)

Rescuers find more casualties of Himalayan quake (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:30 AM PDT Reuters - Air force helicopters flew rescue workers to a remote Himalayan region on Tuesday in search of survivors of a strong earthquake that killed dozens of people in India, Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet.

New bird flu outbreak reported in India (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:49 AM PDT Reuters - Authorities in eastern India will start culling chickens and destroying eggs to contain a new outbreak of H5 bird flu, the government said in a statement on Tuesday, as a mutant strain of the virus is spreading elsewhere in Asia.

Gas leakage at industry plant near Mumbai kills 4 - reports (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:39 PM PDT Reuters - A gas leak at an industrial plant in Tarapur near Mumbai killed four people on Tuesday before it was fixed, local media said.

EXCLUSIVE - Facebook seeks exec to build Hollywood, media ties (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:38 PM PDT Reuters - Facebook is looking to hire a big-name executive to cultivate relationships and strike deals with the film and music industries to bolster its media offerings.

Afghan peace council head killed in Kabul (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:18 PM PDT Reuters - A Taliban suicide bomber on Tuesday killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of a council tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to the war, in what analysts called a blow to peace efforts.

Taliban says won Rabbani trust in order to kill him (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:24 PM PDT Reuters - The Taliban said on Tuesday it had won assassinated former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani's trust by using a high-level team that feigned interest in talks but instead was intent on killing him.

At least 26 Shi'ite pilgrims killed in Pakistan (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 07:05 AM PDT Reuters - Gunmen opened fire on a bus in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan in a suspected sectarian attack on Tuesday, killing at least 26 Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims travelling to Iran, police said.

Google+ opens up, takes fight to Facebook (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:44 PM PDT Reuters - Google Inc and Facebook trotted out a variety of new social networking features in back-to-back announcements on Tuesday, underscoring their intensifying competition for Web surfers.

IMF trims growth forecasts for India, China (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 07:05 AM PDT Reuters - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday said it was trimming its forecasts of economic growth for India, China and other Asian developing economies due partly to slower growth in the rest of the world.

CBI mulls case against Reliance Industries - report (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:57 AM PDT Reuters - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is considering filing a case against Reliance Industries over alleged favoured treatment for its operations of gas blocks in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, the Mint newspaper reported on Tuesday.

South Asia floods spare crops but Pakistan cotton hit (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:11 AM PDT Reuters - Seasonal floods across South Asia have largely spared summer crops this year, helping meet output targets for key rice and cane harvests, but Pakistan could import more cotton after losing about two million bales of the fibre to rains.

Firms jostle in 'crazy' world of India infra bids (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:17 AM PDT Reuters - When DP World was vying to build a fourth container terminal at Mumbai's main port this year, the Dubai-owned giant made what it thought was a solid bid, proposing to share one-fifth of the terminal's income with the government.

Trade law hits raw note for US guitar maker Gibson (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:57 AM PDT Reuters - When federal agents seized rare ebony and rosewood from famed guitar maker Gibson Guitars, it sparked a firestorm over illegal logging, the content of musical instruments, and preserving American jobs.

Food security bill to cost $21 bln - report (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2011 09:19 PM PDT Reuters - The proposed food security bill will likely cost an annual 1 trillion rupees ($20.7 billion), the Financial Express quoted the food minister as saying, as the government looks to scale up production and storage of subsidised grain to feed more of the country's poor.

S&P cuts Italy ratings one notch, outlook negative (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2011 09:06 PM PDT Reuters - Standard and Poor's downgraded its unsolicited ratings on Italy by one notch to A/A-1 and kept its outlook on negative, a major surprise that threatens to add to concerns of contagion in the debt-stressed euro zone.

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