2011年10月18日星期二

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


World's first malaria vaccine works in major trial (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:11 PM PDT

A child is given an injection as part of a malaria vaccine trial at a clinic in the Kenya coastal town of Kilifi, November 23, 2010. REUTERS/Joseph Okanga/FilesReuters - SEATTLE/LONDON (Reuters) -An experimental vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline halved the risk of African children getting malaria in a major clinical trial, making it likely to become the world's first shot against the deadly disease.


Barnes wins Booker Prize he once named "posh bingo" (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:00 PM PDT

British author Julian Barnes poses after winning the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction  with his book' The Sense of an Ending'  at the Guildhall in London October 18, 2011.   REUTERS/Luke MacGregorReuters - English author and bookmakers' favourite Julian Barnes finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, despite once dismissing the coveted award as "posh bingo".


India urges Europe, U.S. to resolve debt mess (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:11 AM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks at the University of Dhaka September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj/FilesReuters - Leaders from India, Brazil and South Africa urged the world's rich countries on Tuesday to contain their financial crises and prevent the global economy from slipping into a double dip recession.


Taliban must give up arms before talks - Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:42 AM PDT

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik attends an interview with Reuters in Islamabad September 22, 2011. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodReuters - Pakistan will only hold peace talks with Taliban insurgents if they lay down their arms first, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Tuesday, after both sides signalled willingness to consider negotiations.


India to see robust gold imports in festive quarter (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 10:26 PM PDT

A worker counts gold bangles at a jewellery-making workshop in Jammu October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh GuptaReuters - Gold demand in India, the world's largest bullion buyer, will be strong in the October-December quarter, a traditional time for festivals and weddings, despite high inflation that eats into savings and multiple growth-choking RBI rates hikes.


Top Obama security aide set to visit China, India (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:02 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama's top national security aide will visit China and India later this week, the White House said on Tuesday.

Beer and curry is Flintoff's F1 diet for India (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:18 AM PDT

England cricketer Andrew Flintoff watches the first cricket test match between England and Bangladesh at Lord's cricket ground in London May 27, 2010.  REUTERS/Philip Brown/FilesReuters - Andrew Flintoff's advice to Formula One teams visiting India for the country's first grand prix next week is to fuel themselves on beer and curry.


Israeli soldier, Palestinians freed in captive swap (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:15 PM PDT

Gilad Shalit (L) stands with his father Noam at Tel Nof air base in central Israel in this handout released by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) October 18, 2011. REUTERS/Ariel Hermoni/IDF/HandoutReuters - Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel's borders in opposite directions on Tuesday as a thousand-for-one prisoner swap brought joy to families but did little to ease decades of conflict.


Samsung's big idea? Upsetting the Apple cart (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:09 AM PDT

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds an Apple Inc's iPhone 4 smartphone (L) and a Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S smartphone as she poses for photographs at a registration desk at KT's headquarters in Seoul, in this picture illustration taken April 22, 2011. REUTERS/Truth Leem/FilesReuters - Just a few doors down from the Apple store in Sydney, where a long line of fans eagerly awaited the sale of the new iPhone 4S, another throng was gathering at a Samsung store.


Uthappa returns in squad for lone T20 against England (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 11:26 PM PDT

Robin Uthappa (R) hits the ball away from Australia's Adam Gilchrist during their tri-series one-day international cricket match in Adelaide February 17, 2008. REUTERS/James Knowler/FilesReuters - Batsman Robin Uthappa was recalled to the India squad for the lone Twenty20 against England while selectors retained the same set of players for the three remaining one-day internationals.


China vaccinates 4.5 mln people in fight against polio (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:49 AM PDT

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child during a nationwide drive against the disease in a hospital in Islamabad August 8, 2007.   REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/FilesReuters - China vaccinated 4.5 million children and young adults over the last five weeks in the western region of Xinjiang in a fight against polio after the disease paralysed 17 people and killed one of them, the World Health Organisation said.


Fukushima victims: homeless, desperate and angry (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:32 PM PDT

An evacuees wipes her tears as she observes a moment of silence for those who were killed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, at an evacuation shelter in Soma, Fukushima prefecture, about 50km from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, May 11, 2011, on the two-month anniversary of the quake and tsunami. REUTERS/Issei Kato/FilesReuters - At last, victims of Japan's nuclear crisis can claim compensation. And they are angry.


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