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| India expected to raise interest rates, roll back rupee support | | | MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's central bank is expected to raise policy interest rates for the second time in as many months on Tuesday to fight stubbornly high inflation, while rolling back further emergency measures put in place recently to support the slumping rupee. |
| Seoul shares seen lacking momentum ahead of Fed meeting, data | | | SEOUL, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Seoul shares are expected to tread water on Tuesday after Wall Street closed near record highs on hopes the Federal Reserve will decide this week to keep its stimulus in place, and as investors await key economic indicators and corporate earnings. "With thinning foreign inflows and a slew of indicators to be checked, there isn't much to elicit investor risk appetite today," said Kim Soon-young, an analyst at IBK Investment Securities. Although foreigners bough |
| 6 killed in Russia bus explosion | | | Investigators say they think a female suicide bomber caused a blast that ripped through a passenger bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Monday afternoon, killing at least six people and injuring 32 others, Russian authorities said. |
| Voice of 'Simpsons' teacher dies | | | Marcia Wallace, whose four-decade television career included playing the receptionist on "The Bob Newhart Show" and Bart's fourth-grade teacher on "The Simpsons," has died, her agent said Saturday. |
| US STOCKS-Wall St flat near record levels, Merck falls | | | NEW YORK, Oct 28 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were little change on Monday as investors found few reasons to keep pushing shares higher after the SP 500 climbed to a series of records on expectations for continuing Federal Reserve stimulus. |
| Phnom Penh Asia's urban star | | | Cambodia's capital could be the region's next great urban getaway -- if you don't mind a bit of grit with your fine French wine. |
| Special Report As Egypt's Brotherhood retreats, risk of extremism rises | | | ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - In Egypt's second city, medical student Ahmed Nabil lives in fear that the police may come and arrest him any day. As a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, he is part of a movement facing an onslaught by the security forces which toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July. |
| Why the global economy will not affect India | | | Nov. 14 - Tulsi Tanti, the chairman and managing director of Suzlon Energy, sits down with Chrystia Freeland to discuss the global economy and how India will not be affected like European countries have been. |
| Tech boss who dares staff to fail | | | Eva Chen is the boss of Trend Micro, a Japanese software security company. Within months of her appointment, she dealt with a major bug. She tells CNN how she turned the mishap into opportunity. |
| UKs Osborne Sticking to austerity paid off | | | Oct. 22 - The UKs Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne says the UK has seen the benefits of sticking with a clear economic plan, but admits the job is far from done. |
| Brazil to insist on local Internet data storage after U.S. spying | | | SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil, seeking to shield its citizens from alleged U.S. spying, is pushing ahead with its plan to force global Internet companies to store data obtained from Brazilian users inside the country, according to a draft of the law seen by Reuters. |
| Israeli researchers walk the walk with gait analysis device | | | July 14 - An Israeli company is developing an inexpensive gait analysis device it believes will help doctors diagnose previously undetected medical conditions. The study of a person's walking style can reveal much about their health, and the company says it can now done at a price that most people can afford. Jim Drury has more. |
| Jovanka Broz, Titos Widow, Is Dead at 88 | | | Ms. Broz was a peasant girl who married Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavias supreme leader, and became a glamorous symbol of Yugoslav unity she was an ethnic Serb; he, a Croat. |
| F.D.A. Shift on Painkillers Was Years in the Making | | | The F.D.A.s move to tighten restrictions for prescribing painkillers is a rare victory by lawmakers from states hard hit by prescription drug abuse over well-financed lobbyists for business and patient groups. |
| An Asian rival to the Ryder Cup? | | | Asia's emergence as a golfing power has received a boost with the announcement the continent's top golfers will face off against their European counterparts in a competition similar to the Ryder Cup. |
| Wealth | | | Want to buy an Irish castle? For those of means, the price is right. |
| Amazon yields new species | | | A titi monkey that purrs like a cat is just one of hundreds of species discovered in the Amazon in recent years, according to the World Wildlife Fund. |
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