MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Three bombs rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour yesterday, killing at least 21 people in the biggest militant attack on India’s financial capital since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama warned yesterday that elderly Americans could suffer first from a debt default, raising pressure on lawmakers as prospects for a deal to lift the debt ceiling appeared far from reach.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The British government endorsed a move in parliament to block Rupert Murdoch’s bid for broadcaster BSkyB yesterday, casting more doubt on his hopes to expand in television despite a widening scandal over phone-hacking by one of his newspapers.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – The younger half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, one of the most powerful and controversial men in southern Afghanistan, was shot dead at his home on Tuesday by a senior and highly trusted family security guard.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China secured its first top management post in the International Monetary Fund yesterday, in a move aimed at recognizing Beijing’s growing clout in the global economy.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. senator called for an investigation of News Corp following the telephone hacking scandal at one of its British newspapers, signaling the crisis could spread to the United States.
LONDON, (Reuters) – “The basic test of a decent police force is that it catches more criminals than it employs.”
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Former media mogul Conrad Black has been ordered to report to prison on September 6 to serve out his prison sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice, according to US court documents filed yesterday.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The UN Security Council voted yesterday to wind down a peacekeeping force in Sudan that was operating in volatile border areas, but said it was willing to keep working there until new security arrangements are agreed.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court handed down life sentences yesterday to five ultra-nationalists convicted of the racist murders of 27 people, and shorter prison terms to eight members of their group.
SYUKEYEVO, Russia (Reuters) – Russia said there was little hope of finding any more people alive yesterday after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga River, killing 128 people in Russia’s worst river accident in three decades.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British government lawyers are drawing up plans to block Rupert Murdoch’s bid to buy out the broadcaster BSkyB, the Independent newspaper said on Monday — a move that could spare Prime Minister David Cameron a potentially damaging parliamentary vote.
CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Australia unveiled its most sweeping economic reform in decades on Sunday with a plan to tax carbon emissions from the nation’s worst polluters, reviving hopes of stronger global climate action with the largest emissions trade scheme outside Europe.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Interpol has circulated arrest warrants for four suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri, U.N.-backed
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper reported yesterday that News of the World journalists had offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private phone records of victims of the Sept.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is withholding some $800 million in military assistance to Pakistan in a show of displeasure over its cutback on U.S.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Nearly 100 people were missing after a tourist boat sank in Russia’s Volga river yesterday, killing at least one person, emergency services officials said.
JUBA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of South Sudanese danced and cheered as their new nation declared independence yesterday, a hard-won separation from the north that still leaves simmering issues of disputed borders and oil payments unresolved.
(Trinidad Guardian) The government is taking legal action against G-pan inventor Professor Brian Copeland and three associates for profiting from sale of the G-Pan whose intellectual rights are owned by the government, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said on Friday.
LONDON (Reuters) – In a moment of celebration tinged with sorrow and no little anger, the staff of Britain’s best-selling News of the World tabloid cheered as they left their offices yesterday for the last time.
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