2011年10月21日星期五

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Gaddafi caught like "rat" in a drain, humiliated and shot (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:14 PM PDT

An anti-Gaddafi fighter points at the drain where Muammar Gaddafi was hiding before he was captured in Sirte October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Muammar Gaddafi made his final dash for freedom shortly before dawn prayers. Libya's ousted leader, a few dozen loyal bodyguards and the head of his now non-existent army Abu Bakr Younis Jabr, broke out of the two-month siege of his home town Sirte and, forming a convoy of six dozen vehicles, raced through the outskirts to the west.


U.S to pull out of Iraq after nearly 9 years of war (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama announces the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in the briefing room of the White House in Washington October 21, 2011. Obama on Friday said the United States will fulfill its promise by pulling troops out of Iraq by year-end. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsReuters - President Barack Obama vowed on Friday to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq this year, symbolically ending the war but dashing U.S. hopes of leaving a few thousand troops to buttress a still shaky Iraq and offset neighbouring Iran's influence.


Anti-terror laws in Kashmir to be relaxed as violence wanes (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:03 AM PDT

Army soldiers stand behind the covered bodies of suspected militants and their weapons after a gun battle, in a camp in Gurez, 160 km (100 miles) north Srinagar August 20, 2011.  REUTERS/Farooq Khan/Pool/FilesReuters - Widely hated security laws that give Indian forces sweeping powers to search, arrest or shoot in Kashmir are to be withdrawn in parts as rebel violence declines sharply in the strife-torn Himalayan region, chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Friday.


Clinton says U.S. officials have met with Haqqanis (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 08:26 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Islamabad October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that the United States had held a preliminary meeting with representatives of the Haqqani network, a group of militants Washington has blamed for a series of attacks in Afghanistan.


Shock image threshold falls under internet pressure (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:56 PM PDT

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, covered in blood, is held on a truck by NTC fighters in Sirte in this still image taken from video footage October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Reuters TVReuters - The threshold for publishing gruesome images like those of Muammar Gaddafi's death is falling as the internet and social media make many of the editorial decisions that used to be left to a small group of professional journalists.


Murdoch lucid, feisty in investor face-off (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:51 PM PDT

Protesters demonstrate at Fox Studios during the annual News Corp. stockholder meeting in Los Angeles, California October 21, 2011. REUTERS/David McNewReuters - News Corp shareholders reelected the media conglomerate's board of directors on Friday and failed to approve a proposal to oust Rupert Murdoch from his chairman post.


Gaddafi family demands body; NATO ends Libya war (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:34 PM PDT

This still image taken from amateur video posted online by GlobalPost and obtained by Reuters, October 21, 2011, shows former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after his capture by NTC fighters in Sirte. REUTERS/GlobalPost via Reuters TV/HandoutReuters - NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Muammar Gaddafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.


Maruti Suzuki says resolves labour unrest (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:14 AM PDT

A worker adjusts the windscreen wipers of a parked car at a Maruti Suzuki stockyard in Ahmedabad September 1, 2011. REUTERS/Amit Dave/FilesReuters - Maruti Suzuki, India's biggest carmaker, said on Friday that a labour unrest at its Manesar plant has been resolved and the operations at the facility would start on Saturday.


INSIGHT - Reliance chases retail fix as Wal-Mart looms (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:40 AM PDT

A trolley laden with fresh and processed food sits parked in an aisle as customers shop at a supermarket in Mumbai May 30, 2011. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash/FilesReuters - Five years after making a grand foray into retail, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries is nowhere close to the scale he had hoped his company, India's largest listed group, would achieve in a fragmented and fast-growing industry.


Axis Bank to tap Sri Lanka's post war infrastructure pie (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:51 AM PDT

A boy carries water buckets as he walks past a building damaged during the civil war in Jaffna, about 304 km (184 miles) north of Colombo, July 22, 2011. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/FilesReuters - India's No.3 private lender Axis Bank will focus on lending related to Sri Lanka's post-war infrastructure drive instead of competing for retail banking, the bank's country head said on Friday after opening its first Sri Lankan branch.


Gaddafi, in meat locker, still divides Libya (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:56 AM PDT

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, covered in blood, is pulled from  a truck by NTC fighters in Sirte in this still image taken from video footage October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Libyan TV via Reuters TVReuters - Muammar Gaddafi's body lay in an old meat store on Friday as arguments over a burial, and his killing after being captured, dogged efforts by Libya's new leaders to make a formal start on a new era of democracy.


Mobile phones don't hike cancer risk - Danish study (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:57 AM PDT

A man uses his AT&T iPhone in the subway at West 14th Street and 8th Avenue in New York September 27, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - Mobile phones do not increase the risk of cancer, according to a large study involving more than 350,000 people by Danish researchers published on Friday.


India's Idea bets on mobile data as profit falls (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT

A labourer talks on a mobile phone over sacks of onion at a wholesale market in Mumbai January 25, 2011. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - Idea Cellular, India's fourth-largest mobile phone carrier by subscribers, said it is focusing on growing its revenue from high-margin data services, after it reported a sharper-than-expected drop in quarterly profit.


Taliban leader Fazlullah vows new war in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:52 PM PDT

Masked Pakistani pro-Taliban militants who are supporters of Maulana Fazlullah in Pakistan's Swat valley November 2, 2007.  REUTERS/Sherin Zada Kanju/FilesReuters - Afghanistan-based Taliban leader Maulvi Fazlullah, a leading figure in the insurgency, has vowed to return to Pakistan to wage war as the country came under renewed American pressure to tackle militancy.


Steve Jobs refused cancer treatment too long - biographer (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:52 PM PDT

A portrait of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs is placed on the Federation Tower skyscraper in Moscow's new business district, October 19 2011. REUTERS/Denis SinyakovReuters - Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs refused potentially life-saving cancer surgery for nine months, shrugging off his family's protests and opting instead for alternative medicine, according to the tech visionary's biographer.


UN rights office urges inquiry into Gaddafi death (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:37 AM PDT

The body of Muammar Gaddafi is seen at a house in Misrata October 20, 2011.  REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - The United Nations human rights office called on Friday for a full investigation into the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.


Paceman Yadav out of ODI series due to hand injury (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:32 PM PDT

Reuters - Paceman Umesh Yadav has been ruled out of the remaining two one-day internationals against England after suffering a hand injury during the match in Mohali.
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