Analysis: Struggling Indian economy hardens case to end policy (Reuters)

Analysis: Struggling Indian economy hardens case to end policy (Reuters)

Analysis: Struggling Indian economy hardens case to end policy (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:20 PM PDT

An employee sits outside a flour mill in the Ralegan Siddhi village, located in the Ahmednagar district about 250km (155 miles) south east of Mumbai June 17, 2011. REUTERS/Danish SiddiquiReuters - India is nearing the end of its credit tightening cycle, as 10 interest rate increases since March 2010 exact a toll on growth in a once-roaring economy, making Tuesday's expected rate rise potentially the last for the near future.

Europe agrees sweeping new action on debt crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:11 PM PDT

Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou talks to media during a news conference at the end of an euro zone leaders crisis summit in Brussels July 21, 2011. REUTERS/Thierry RogeReuters - Euro zone leaders agreed on a second rescue package for debt-stricken Greece that risks triggering a temporary default and will give their financial rescue fund broader powers to try to prevent market instability spreading through the region.

Clinton: Myanmar has to earn international trust (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:38 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attends the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministerial Meeting in Nusa Dua, Indonesia Friday, July 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Myanmar will lose the trust of the international community unless it releases its political prisoners and opens dialogue with the opposition.

News Corp TV takeover blow in Australia (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:30 PM PDT

The mastheads of News Corp owned newspapers are displayed above a news agents in Melbourne on July 15, 2011. Embattled News Corp. suffered a fresh setback on Friday when Australian competition regulators said its bid to expand its pay-TV operation in the country raised AFP - Embattled News Corp. suffered a fresh setback on Friday when Australian competition regulators said its bid to expand its pay-TV operation in the country raised "significant" monopoly issues.

VIDEO: Hadzic to be transferred to The Hague

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:05 PM PDT

Serbian authorities are expected to transfer the last remaining war crimes suspect from the Yugoslav wars to the UN Tribunal in the Hague as early as today.


Analysis: Struggling Indian economy hardens case to end policy

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:20 PM PDT

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India is nearing the end of its credit tightening cycle, as 10 interest rate increases since March 2010 exact a toll on growth in a once-roaring economy, making Tuesday's expected rate rise potentially the last for the near future.

The Second Most Stressful Job?

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:15 PM PDT

According to CareerCast.com, an online database of jobs in the U.S. and Canada, job-related stress i


Belgian parties ready for talks to end crisis (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:21 PM PDT

File picture of a session of the Belgian federal parliament in Brussels. Eight Belgian parties are ready on talks to form a government to end a year-long political stalemate, a prominent politician charged by King Albert II to end the impasse indicated on Friday(AFP/Belga/File/Julien Warnand)AFP - Eight Belgian parties are ready on talks to form a government to end a year-long political stalemate, a prominent politician charged by King Albert II to end the impasse indicated on Friday.

Advocate: US decision on Taiwan F-16 sales Oct. 1 (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:21 PM PDT

AP - An advocate for the sale of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan says a decision on the deal will come soon — and it looks like the answer may be no.


NFL Owners Approve New Labor Deal, But Players Hold Off

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:52 PM PDT

Thursday marked the most surreal day yet of the NFL lockout which started in early March. Owners app


VIDEO: Heat-wave claims lives across US

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:58 PM PDT

A heat-wave across the central and eastern parts of the United States is being blamed for causing as many as 22 deaths, with temperatures rising to 43 degrees centigrade.


'No' is a Complete Sentence: the Wisdom of Jaycee Dugard

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:12 PM PDT

You mind because you're beginning to notice a pattern of behavior and it's not a favorable one. You'


U.S. Prepares Subpoenas for News Corp. Inquiry

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:08 PM PDT

The Justice Department is preparing subpoenas as part of preliminary investigations into News Corp. relating to alleged foreign bribery and alleged hacking of voicemail of Sept. 11 victims, according to a government official.


Scandal grows as James Murdoch evidence questioned (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:27 PM PDT

Newspapers in Melbourne with coverage dominated by Rupert Murdoch's appearance before a British parliamentary committee. Pressure intensified on Murdoch's media empire Friday after his son James was accused of misleading British MPs, as rival newspapers became embroiled in the phone-hacking scandal.(AFP/William West)AFP - Pressure intensified on Rupert Murdoch's media empire Friday after his son James was accused of misleading British MPs, as rival newspapers became embroiled in the phone-hacking scandal.

Western Sahara negotiations fail in New York (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:33 PM PDT

File picture shows a Polisario Front soldier near the Western Sahara village of Tifariti. An eighth session of UN-led informal negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front on the Western Sahara ended in failure in a New York City suburb(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)AFP - An eighth session of UN-led informal negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front on the Western Sahara ended in failure in a New York City suburb.

Grave-digging, riots at Australia immigration centre (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:33 PM PDT

Protesting inmates at Australia's Christmas Island immigration centre have buried themselves in shallow graves in a symbolic gesture, advocates said Friday, as riots erupted for a third night.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Protesting inmates at Australia's Christmas Island immigration centre have buried themselves in shallow graves in a symbolic gesture, advocates said Friday, as riots erupted for a third night.

Australia and Malaysia in 'refugee swap deal'

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:15 PM PDT

Countries set to finalise agreement under which hundreds of asylum seekers will be exchanged.


Canada court rules against China's most wanted man (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:41 PM PDT

Lai Changxing, who has been called China's most wanted fugitive, listens to a translator during a news conference in Vancouver, British Columbia September 18, 2007. REUTERS/Andy ClarkReuters - A Canadian court cleared the way on Thursday for the extradition of China's most wanted man, dismissing concerns that he could be tortured or executed back home.

The New Euro Plan: Is Greek Bailout 2.0 The Real Deal? (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Eurozone leaders seem plenty pleased with their latest bid to ease Greece's financial troubles, and they do have reason to be. But does it move far enough past their last attempt to do any good?


British artist Lucian Freud dies aged 88 (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:32 PM PDT

Lucian Freud, pictured in 2010, who died in London on Wednesday aged 88, was widely recognised as the greatest contemporary British artist in a career spanning seven decades.(AFP/File/Stephan Agostini)AFP - Realist painter Lucian Freud, grandson of the inventor of modern psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and widely seen as Britain's top contemporary artist, has died in London aged 88, his lawyer said.
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