India: No arrests, claims in Mumbai blasts

India: No arrests, claims in Mumbai blasts

India: No arrests, claims in Mumbai blasts

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:57 PM PDT

Officials in Mumbai, India, have corrected the death toll from Wednesday's blasts, saying that 18 people were killed.

South Sudan to be newest U.N. member

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:06 PM PDT

South Sudan is scheduled to become the 193rd member of the United Nations on Thursday morning, adding to a flurry of activities that started with its independence last week.

Civilian Deaths Rise in Afghanistan

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:07 PM PDT

Civilian casualties and insurgent attacks in Afghanistan increased to new highs during the first six months of this year compared to last, a United Nations report says.


Besiktas coach detained in match-fixing probe

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:49 PM PDT

Tayfur Havutcu and Istanbul club's deputy chairman among latest suspects arrested in Turkish match-fixing investigation.


British Open under way at Royal St George's (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:47 PM PDT

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy (2nd R), seen here during the practice rounds ahead of the 140th British Open Golf championship at Royal St George's in Sandwich, Kent, south east England, on July 13. McIlroy will try to emulate Tiger Woods this week by winning the British Open four weeks after winning the US Open.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - The 140th British Open got under way with the tournament's most southerly venue, quirky, bumpy Royal St George's, defying a field of 156 golfers.

Australia PM open to review amid News Corp scandal (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:50 PM PDT

File photo of the Chairman and CEO of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday said she would be open to an inquiry into media regulation and ownership after the AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she would be open to an inquiry into media regulation and ownership after the "disgusting" scandal engulfing News Corporation.

'Dramatic' sales drop for top Australian retailer (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:32 PM PDT

Guests are seen in the lead-up to a David Jones fashion event in Sydney. Shares in the prestigious Australian department store plunged almost 16 percent Thursday after the high-end retailer warned of a profit slump due to sluggish sales.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Shares in prestigious Australian department store David Jones plunged more than 18 percent Thursday after the high-end retailer warned of a profit slump due to sluggish sales.

In World Cup semifinal, US spirit tops French finesse (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 01:17 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - For the third time in women’s soccer history, the US national team made it to the finals of a World Cup, beating France 3-1 in the round of the last four at the FIFA tournament in Germany. It wasn’t an easy win.


EU unveils plan to revive dwindling fish stocks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:04 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The European Union has unveiled plans to overhaul its fisheries policy in a reform hailed as the most radical in four decades.


VIDEO: Can Google+ rival Facebook?

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:28 PM PDT

The search engine Google has launched a social networking site, Google+


Who's Behind Mumbai's Rush-Hour Bombings? (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Coordinated attacks on busy parts of India's megacity raise fresh fears of both foreign and local jihadis


China artist Ai Weiwei 'happy' to take Berlin post (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:36 PM PDT

Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei speaks to reporters outside his studio in Beijing. The artist and government critic whose detention triggered an international outcry, said Thursday he was AFP - Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist whose detention triggered an international outcry, said Thursday he was "very happy" to accept a new professorship in Germany, but did not know when he would be able to go.

Mass graves in Sudan? US group releases new photos (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:05 PM PDT

AP - A dug-up site in a sealed-off region of Sudan appears to be a mass grave, a U.S. satellite monitoring group said Thursday, offering the first aerial photographs from a conflict zone that outside observers can't access.


Australia may review media laws after NewsCorp scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Australia's government may review national media laws in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday, after an influential party demanded a probe into Rupert Murdoch's local media empire.


The Aisha Bibi Case: Her Father Wants to Petition the Taliban for Justice (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Declaring his frustration with receiving justice from the Karzai government, the father of a famous spousal abuse victim says he may seek redress from the Taliban, the very group his daughter blames for her disfigurement


The World of Clockwork Robots

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:10 PM PDT

There's an entire world of robots to explore from the era before electricity.


VIDEO: Who was behind Mumbai bombs?

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:11 PM PDT

Indian officials say that terrorists were behind the explosions but no specific group has been apportioned blame.


India police search for perpetrators of triple Mumbai blasts (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Indian police searched for clues on Thursday about who was behind three coordinated bomb blasts that killed at least 17 people in Mumbai, the biggest attack since Pakistani-based militants rampaged through the financial hub in 2008.


No warnings, clues in deadly triple Mumbai blasts

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:05 PM PDT

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian intelligence agencies received no warnings before the three bomb blasts that killed 18 people in Mumbai, the biggest attack since Pakistani-based militants rampaged through the financial hub in 2008, a top official said on Thursday.

Moody's puts US ratings on review for downgrade

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:51 PM PDT

NEW YORK: The United States may lose its top-notch credit rating in the next few weeks if lawmakers fail to increase the country's legal borrowing limit and the government misses debt payments, Moody's Investors Service warned on Wednesday. Moody's is the first of the big-three credit rating agencies to place the United States' Aaa rating on review for a possible downgrade, meaning the agency is close to cutting the country's rating. Standard and Poor's placed the U.S. rating on negative outlook on April 18 which meant a downgrade is likely in 12-18 months. "They are worried they are having these ideological arguments while Rome burns," said Carl Kaufman, portfolio manager at Oster weis Capital Management in San Francisco. A lower credit rating would cause havoc in financial markets around the world and increase borrowing costs for the government and businesses, further harming public finances and weighing on the economic recovery. In a statement, Moody's said it sees a "rising possibility that the statutory debt limit will not be raised on a timely basis, leading to a default on U.S. Treasury debt obligations." Risks of a default on Treasuries, traditionally seen as the world's safest investment, have increased since the government reached its legal borrowing limit of $14.294 trillion on May 16. Congress has refused to raise the statutory borrowing limit until agreement is reached on cutting the fiscal deficit which was US$1.29 trillion in the last fiscal year. The Treasury Department has said if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2 it will have to start prioritizing payments. -- Reuters


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