Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Under-fire Martin keen to set things right in India (AFP)

Under-fire Martin keen to set things right in India (AFP)

Under-fire Martin keen to set things right in India (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:37 AM PDT

New Zealand bowler Chris Martin (L) and wicketkeeper Gareth Hopkins attend a press conference at Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium at Motera near Ahmedabad. Martin on Tuesday said he was looking to resurrect his stop-start career with a resounding performance against India in an upcoming three-Test series.(AFP/Sam Panthaky)AFP - New Zealand fast bowler Chris Martin on Tuesday said he was looking to resurrect his stop-start career with a resounding performance against India in an upcoming three-Test series.

Obama to emphasize China currency concern on trip (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:32 AM PDT

A 100 yuan banknote (R) is placed next to $100 banknotes in this picture illustration taken in Beijing November 1, 2010. REUTERS/Petar KujundzicReuters - The United States will raise concern about China's currency repeatedly during President Barack Obama's trip to Asia, which begins later this week.

Turkey: suicide bomber was PKK member (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:20 AM PDT

AP - Turkey has identified the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Istanbul, wounding 32 people, as a member of the country's main autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebel group.

Court hears India's 'biggest corporate fraud' case (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 09:50 AM PDT

Chairman and Founder of India's Satyam Computer Services Limited Ramalinga Raju speaks at a press conference in Hyderabad in 2008. The disgraced founder of Indian outsourcing giant Satyam appeared in court Tuesday in a billion-dollar corporate fraud case dubbed AFP - The disgraced founder of Indian outsourcing giant Satyam appeared in court Tuesday in a billion-dollar corporate fraud case dubbed "India's Enron".

WFP chief, former US envoy arrive in N.Korea (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 09:14 AM PDT

This picture released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency shows United Nations' World Food Programme Executive Director Josette Sheeran arriving at the Pyongyang airport.(AFP/KCNA via KNS)AFP - The head of the UN World Food Programme arrived on Tuesday in impoverished North Korea, said official media in the country, which relies on international handouts to help feed its people.

Missing Chinese tourists in Taiwan are dead: relatives (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 09:14 AM PDT

This handout picture released by Taiwan's Military News Agency, on October 2010, shows a soldier inspecting a piece of clothing as rescuers search for missing Chinese tourists thought to be buried in a landslide near Su Hua road. Relatives of 20 Chinese tourists missing have acknowledged there is no chance their loved ones will be found alive, an official said Tuesday.(AFP/MNA-HO/File/Military News Agency)AFP - Relatives of 20 Chinese tourists missing since Typhoon Megi struck Taiwan last month have acknowledged there is no chance their loved ones will be found alive, an official said Tuesday.

Flash floods strand thousands in major Thai city (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 09:13 AM PDT

Thai soldiers patrol in an armoured vehicle through flood waters following heavy rains in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat. Thailand battled Tuesday to rescue thousands of people stranded in their homes after flash floods -- several metres deep in places -- swept through a southern city, cutting power and communications.(AFP/Madaree Tohlala)AFP - Thailand battled Tuesday to rescue thousands of people stranded in their homes after flash floods -- several metres deep in places -- swept through a southern city, cutting power and communications.

Another Vietnam blogger held: reports (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 09:01 AM PDT

People walk past Internet coffee shops in the old quarter of Hanoi in 2001. A Vietnamese blogger has been detained for AFP - A Vietnamese blogger has been detained for "infringing on the interests of the state" after she criticised a security official and his family, reports said Tuesday.

Japan calls back Moscow envoy, summit door open (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 08:52 AM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits one of the Russian-held islands claimed by Japan, at the southern Kurils, on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. Russia's president visited an island in the Pacific Ocean claimed by both Russia and Japan on Monday, triggering immediate protests from Tokyo, which is already involved in a heated dispute with China over islands to the south. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, pool)AP - Japan temporarily recalled its ambassador from Moscow on Tuesday but left the door open for a possible summit despite growing anger in Tokyo over the Russian president's visit to a disputed island off Japan's northern coast.

Russia warns of more visits to disputed islands (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 08:31 AM PDT

Reuters - Russia said on Tuesday President Dmitry Medvedev planned more trips to a group of islands seized by the Soviet Union from Japan at the end of World War Two, deepening a serious rift with Tokyo.

Myanmar cancels voting in more minority areas (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 06:35 AM PDT

AP - Election authorities in military-ruled Myanmar canceled voting in Sunday's elections in more areas where restive ethnic minorities are dominant.

Afghans protest problems with parliament elections (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 06:17 AM PDT

Local residents look at a burnt-out NATO supply truck after a militant attack in Shah Kas village in Khyber district of Pakistan in October, 2010. Taliban fighters armed with assault rifles fired at two NATO tankers in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, wounding three people, police said.(AFP/File)AP - Several hundred people took to the streets of Kabul on Tuesday to protest problems with September's parliamentary poll, underscoring persistent concerns about the Afghan government's ability to carry out elections.

NKorea makes point-by-point denial of ship sinking (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 04:28 AM PDT

Japanese members of the Association of the Family of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea look over the North's side through the barbed wire fence at Imjingak near the border villages of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. The family members from South Korea, Japan, Thailand and Romania hope their wishes written on plastic sheets to reach their long-lost relatives believed to be held in the hardline communist country.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - North Korea issued a lengthy point-by-point denial Tuesday that it torpedoed a South Korean warship, days after talks with the American-led U.N. Command over the sinking ended with no major breakthrough.

Sydney zoo celebrates birth of Asian elephant (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 03:58 AM PDT

In this image provided by Taronga Zoo an unnamed female baby elephant stands under her mother, Pak Boon, after the birth of the infant early Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. The 120 kg (265 pound) youngster was born four years to the day of the arrival of a herd of elephants from Thailand in 2006. (AP Photo/Taronga Zoo, Bobby-Jo Vial) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Sydney's premier zoo is celebrating the birth of its first female Asian elephant — a 270 pound (120 kilogram) calf that is doing well.

Pakistan PM sees no chance of military coup (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 03:39 AM PDT

Pakistani students sit inside and on top of a rickshaw heading to their schools in Muzaffargarh in Punjab province, Pakistan, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - Pakistan's prime minister on Tuesday rejected calls by opposition politicians for midterm elections and said there was no chance of the country's powerful army seizing power as it has often done in the past.

Malaysia assures US that Anwar will get fair trial (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 03:10 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles before the start of a town hall event at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)AP - Malaysia gave its assurance Tuesday that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim would get a fair hearing in his ongoing sodomy trial after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for transparency.

Myanmar's ethnic minorities prepare for war (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 03:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 17, 2010 file photo, a young female recruit of the Kachin Independence Army, one of the country's largest armed ethnic groups, participates in battle drills at a training camp near Laiza in Myanmar. As military-ruled Myanmar prepares for its first election in two decades, some of its powerful ethnic minorities, fearing a hopeless post-election future, are preparing for war. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - As military-ruled Myanmar prepares for its first election in two decades, some of its powerful ethnic minority groups are preparing for war.

China objects to US offer over disputed islands (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 02:16 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures during a town hall event at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)AP - China rejected Tuesday a U.S. offer to broker three-way talks with Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, prompting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to reiterate the proposal.

British PM Cameron to visit Beijing next week (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 01:40 AM PDT

AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron will visit Beijing next week at the head of the largest official British delegation to travel to the country, China's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Toll from Indian boat tragedy rises to 69 (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 01:34 AM PDT

Indian villagers look out from the banks of the Muriganga river at Kakdwip after a boat capsized near near Ghoramara island, south of Calcutta, India, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010. A rescue helicopter and divers searched Sunday for dozens missing after a boat crowded with Muslim pilgrims capsized near the Bay of Bengal, killing at least 19, police said.(AP Photo)AP - Rescue workers and naval divers have recovered 69 bodies three days after a boat crowded with Muslim pilgrims capsized near the Bay of Bengal in eastern India, an official said Tuesday. Dozens more people are still unaccounted for.
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