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Microbrewery eyes India's growing thirst for beers

Microbrewery eyes India's growing thirst for beers
HK trams: out of date but not out of fashion
Two children drowned in quicksand
Noramfaizul was insured: Bernama chairman
Japan's typhoon death toll rises to eight
Merkel's coalition faces rough ride in regional election
DSK comes home to uneasy silence from party allies
Tropical Storm Lee soaks New Orleans
CIA links to Gaddafi revealed
All 21 aboard Chile air force plane considered dead
Vatican rejects Irish parliament child abuse rebuke
Traffic smooth on NSE
Let's not blame anyone over killing
Japan's new leadership wins polls backing
Biggest rally in Israel's history presses PM
Gaddafi spokesman says Bani Walid will hold out
Greek PM rules out snap polls, protesters are back
Body of slain journalist flown home
VIDEO: US charity aid arrives in N Korea
VIDEO: Israeli protest over living costs

Microbrewery eyes India's growing thirst for beers

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:55 AM PDT

Microbreweries are the newest additions to India's steadily expanding alcoholic drinks market, whose growth is driven by a younger, more affluent clientele willing to spend their cash in different ways from their parents. One such brewery in Pune, western India, has an adjoining pub were drinkers can sample its beers made with unusual ingredients like jaggery (cane sugar) and even berries. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.

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HK trams: out of date but not out of fashion

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:52 AM PDT

(People's Republic of China-AFP) - In most major cities trams disappeared long ago but in Hong Kong the old-fashioned service is still going strong with tens of thousands of using them each day. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.

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Two children drowned in quicksand

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:39 AM PDT

Two children drowned in quicksand while three others were rescued yesterday at the Semerak lagoon where they had been looking for sea snails.

Noramfaizul was insured: Bernama chairman

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:39 AM PDT

Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, the BernamaTV cameraman who was killed in Somalia last Friday, had two insurance policies taken on him by Bernama, the Malaysian national news agency chairman Datuk Abdul Rahman Sulaiman said.

Japan's typhoon death toll rises to eight

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:22 AM PDT

The death toll from Typhoon Talas rose to eight in western Japan with another 33 missing after the powerful storm brought heavy rains and fierce winds to the region, a report said Sunday.

Merkel's coalition faces rough ride in regional election

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:08 AM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition could face a further drubbing at the polls on Sunday in a regional election in Germany's poorest state, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

DSK comes home to uneasy silence from party allies

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:08 AM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, once a favourite to be the next French president, came home on Sunday to an expected icy greeting from party allies after a legal odyssey in New York that reshaped France's political landscape.

Tropical Storm Lee soaks New Orleans

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:08 AM PDT

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Lee was drenching New Orleans on Sunday as the Southern city, inundated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, faced a test of its flood defenses from the slow-moving system.

CIA links to Gaddafi revealed

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:31 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Sep 4: Documents found at the abandoned office of Libya's former spymaster appear to provide new details of close relations between US and British intelligence and the Libyan intelligence agency.

All 21 aboard Chile air force plane considered dead

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:41 PM PDT

The Chilean government said it was considering dead all 21 people aboard a Chilean air force plane that crashed into the Pacific on its way to a remote archipelago.

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Vatican rejects Irish parliament child abuse rebuke

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:06 PM PDT

ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican on Saturday rejected accusations from the Irish parliament that it had sought to cover up child sex abuse by its priests and undermine child protection laws.

Traffic smooth on NSE

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:55 PM PDT

Traffic on the North-South Expressway (PLUS) heading towards the capital city is generally smooth despite more vehicles are plying on the road, a PLUS spokesperson said.

Let's not blame anyone over killing

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:55 PM PDT

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today urged the people not to point fingers at anyone over the recent killing of a Malaysian journalist in Somalia.

Japan's new leadership wins polls backing

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Japan's new prime minister Yoshihiko Noda and his cabinet on Sunday won solid backing in opinion polls, with respondents expressing confidence in his ability to lead the post-quake recovery.

Biggest rally in Israel's history presses PM

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:36 PM PDT

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands marched on Saturday for lower living costs in the largest such rally in Israel's history, bolstering a social change movement and mounting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take on economic reform.

Gaddafi spokesman says Bani Walid will hold out

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:36 PM PDT

TUNIS (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's spokesman dismissed suggestions on Saturday that one of his last bastions of support, Bani Walid, was about to surrender to his enemies and insisted that tribal leaders there were still loyal.

Greek PM rules out snap polls, protesters are back

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:36 PM PDT

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Saturday ruled out snap elections and said his government would succeed in bringing Greece out of the crisis by the end of his term in 2013.