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India

100 Indian fishermen in Pakistani jails to be freed soon

GANDHINAGAR - Hundred of the over 600 Indian fishermen held in Pakistani jails will be released soon, a fishermen's forum official said here Tuesday.

Sugar Mills should ensure ethanol to oil companies: Pawar

NEW DELHI - Union Agriculture and Food Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday appealed to the sugar mills to ensure continuous and adequate supplies of ethanol to the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) not only to make ethanol blending programme a success in India, but also to ensure adequate price for ethanol as well as sugar in all the years.

Kashmiri Pandits celebrate Pushkar festival after 11 years near Srinagar

SHADIPORA - After a gap of 11 years, Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district are celebrating Pushkar festival with fervour and gaiety in the Shadipora area.

Railways to introduce pilot ‘Yuva Trains’

NEW DELHI - Union Railways Ministry on Tuesday said that it will soon introduce the first ever 'Yuva Trains' which are targeted mainly for the unemployed youths of the country.

Protest staged to halt construction of a hydel-power project in Assam

Kapil Sibal briefs Lord Mandelson on India’s education sector

Bikers embark on a rally in Bangalore to protect heritage

Four policemen injured in terrorist attack in Pulwama in J-K

3 Hizbul Mujahideen militants arrested in Srinagar

Miliband wishes Krishna to attend Conference on Afghanistan in London

Meitei Manipuris celebrate Lai Haraoba in Tripura

BSF foils infiltration bid at International border in Sambha

Jairam Ramesh makes statement in RS on climate accord at Copenhagen

China bent upon cutting India down to size: Mishra

Sex workers’ children becoming school dropouts

Patil to visit INS Viraat on Wednesday

TRS activists’ protest against Congress lawmaker

Anti-plastic drive in Himachal Pradesh gets a shot in arm

Cinema artistes felicitated with V. Shantaram award in Mumbai

Unexplored facets of Gayatri Devi’s life revealed

Climate change ripens mangoes early in Uttar Pradesh

Driver arrested for IIM lady professor’s murder

Infiltration bid foiled, Pakistan opens fire at the Jammu and Kashmir border

Asia

Fort Campbell brigade headed to Afghanistan

Fort Campbell brigade headed to AfghanistanFORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Fort Campbell's 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division will deploy 3,400 soldiers to Afghanistan in the early summer of 2010.

Fort Campbell brigade to deploy to Afghanistan

Fort Campbell brigade to deploy to AfghanistanFORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Fort Campbell's 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division will deploy 3,400 soldiers to Afghanistan in the early summer of 2010.

Suicide bombing kills 3 at NW Pakistan press club

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber struck Tuesday outside a press club in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing three people and wounding 17 in an attack that underscored the danger to journalists trying to cover Pakistan's Taliban-led insurgency.

Karzai orders investigation into cousin's slaying

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he has asked the Interior Ministry to investigate the slaying of a young relative in a possible revenge killing connected to a family feud.

Police say suicide bomber kills 3 in NW Pakistan

Karzai to investigate cousin's killing

United States

Amos Makes Palin Promise

American singer TORI AMOS has vowed to run for office if former U.S.

OppenheimerFunds to pay $77M in Ill. settlement

NEW YORK - OppenheimerFunds Inc. said Tuesday it will pay the state of Illinois $77 million to settle an investigation into the firm's management of a college savings program.

Evergreen panels chosen for Massachusetts project

MARLBORO, Mass. - Evergreen Solar Inc.

US freezing assets of Iraq-based insurgent group

WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department is freezing the assets of an Iraq-based insurgent group that has conducted or supported violent raids against U.S.

Sierra Pacific says tender offer has expired

Fitch leaves City National ratings unchanged

Vitamin Shoppe unit to redeem $20M in senior notes

Terrorist attack feared after '03 Jackson arrest

Second Boeing 787 plane takes an hour test flight

Obama to get 'sports stuff' for Christmas

Dust storm wrecks south of Phoenix leave 4 dead

Pa. teens plead not guilty to hate crime charge

Accused EMTs' lawyer decries 'rush to judgment'

First lady reads Christmas classic to sick kids

Pa. man wins ride in George Washington's boat

Lloyds agrees to settlement on financial sanctions

Usher is slowly building a lifestyle brand

Woman held in Hawaii after Michelle Obama threat

Adventurer's niece sad over Angel Falls renaming

Yellowstone opens for winter season

Measure allowing slot machines at Md. mall signed

Dust storm leads to wrecks in Arizona

Wacky New Year specs live on in 2010, despite 1

Police called in to help with JFK airport crowd

Police say shooter targeting moving cars in Ohio

RI picks Chevron for town wind turbine project

Terrorist attack feared after Jackson arrest

2 killed in NC as Amtrak train hits car

DC asks judge to dismiss gay marriage lawsuit

Boy, 2, dies after being bitten by family dog

Unclaimed corpses push up urban morgue body counts

Civil rights group SCLC unseats 2 leaders in probe

Scallopers ask NOAA head to restore some cuts

Lloyds to pay $217 million in Treasury settlement

NYC victim's mom: EMTs were 'inhuman' not to help

IRS auditing 1 percent of returns under $200,000

Cemex USA wins court ruling in $558M royalty fight

Correction: Heartland Publications story

Minn. agency rejects New Ulm wind energy project

Va. No. 1 in new historic register listings

Heating oil prices up 2 pennies in Maine

White House prods Iran over nuclear deadline

Accidents & Disasters

Boy dies after falling into Mumbai manhole

MUMBAI - A five-year-old boy, who had gone missing since Tuesday afternoon, was found dead in a manhole in northeast Mumbai's Mankhurd suburb.

Smuggling bid foiled in Dubai

DUBAI - The Dubai Customs Tuesday foiled a bid to smuggle narcotics by arresting a passenger carrying small capsules of drugs hidden in his stomach, WAM news agency reported Tuesday.

Ruchika case should be re-opened, says friend

CHANDIGARH - Aradhana Gupta, a close friend of Ruchika Girhotra who was molested by former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S.P.S.

Three prisoners flee from police van

KOLKATA - Three prisoners Tuesday fled from a prison van after it was hit by a truck in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said here.

Swiss national found dead in Himachal

Rathore sentencing evokes outrage (Roundup)

Worker dies in Ghaziabad factory blast

Jailed gangster, cops nabbed enjoying luxuries

Crime

Egyptian court upholds 4 years jailing of blogger

CAIRO - Egypt's High Appeal Court has upheld the four-year prison sentence given to an Egyptian blogger who was convicted of insulting Islam and Egypt's president.

Young sailor Dekker's dreams dashed

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Just four months ago Laura Dekker was a carefree 13-year-old with an extraordinary dream - to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

Gunmen kill family of Mexican drug war hero

MEXICO CITY - Gunmen mowed down the family of a Mexican marine just hours after the military honored him as a national hero for losing his life during a raid that took down powerful drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva.

Kidnapping suspect arrested in Mauritania

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - A security official says that Mauritanian police have arrested a man presumed to have kidnapped two Italians last week.

Pa. teens to be arraigned on hate crime charge

Some Romanians nostalgic 20 years after communism

Five let off in a Kandhamal riot case

CBI arrests Delhi Police inspector for bribery

Ethiopia court sentences 5 to death over terrorism

Latest

Nielsen's top 20 for Dec. 14-20

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co.

In week stuffed with repeats, CBS dominates rivals

NEW YORK - The television ratings make it look like CBS was the only broadcast network working last week.

New York ranks at bottom in US happiness rating

NEW YORK - New Yorkers, it seems, are the most unhappy bunch you can imagine in the US, a study published in Science magazine said Tuesday.

Israel passes demands in prisoner swap to Hamas

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel delivered its counter-demands Tuesday for a deal with Hamas to exchange about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for a single Israeli soldier held captive by Gaza militants for more than three years.

Weeks of fighting Yemen rebels killed 73 Saudis

Ensure urban amenities in rural areas, Kalam tells students

Iran: Border spat with Iraq was misunderstanding

Divorced, destitute women will now get pension in Delhi

Two cops killed, one injured in Kashmir ambush

Three cops wounded in south Kashmir ambush

Prince William spends night on London streets

Recession lowers lustre of UK’s larger-than-life Asian weddings

Last Indochinese tiger in China killed and eaten by a villager

Britain protests after India tightens visa rules

Russia to send monkey to Mars

DA probing EMTs accused of not helping dying woman

New Mexico utility has permits to move transformer

ACLU contests RI school's pay-to-play sports edict

Roman Abramovich set to spend 55 million in January window

Mobile phone mugger caught after answering owner’s call!

Pak court’s ‘tit for tat’ judgement, asks authorities to chop-off the nose, ears of two convicts

Snowstorm took toll on holiday sales

Ford Focus voted UK’s “most popular car of the decade”

In Pak: Smuggled pistols on hire for Rs.150 per hour

Parcels for foreign embassies is not subjected to checks : US

Remorseless American ‘jihadis’ want death penalty for failing to achieve ’shahadat’

6,431 Pakistanis languishing in foreign jails

Relatives seek release of Pak prisoners languishing in Indian jails

Devon Energy to sell 3 Gulf projects for $1.3B

Obama set to break Nixon’s record of 48 ‘Time’ cover appearances

URS to rebrand 2 units, maintains 2009 outlook

US troops to use ‘eavesdropping spy planes’ in Afghanistan

Capsicum spray can be lethal, law group warns

Shillong hails X’Mas with a music concert

World

Sarah Palin lands title of telling ‘biggest lie of the year’

LONDON - Ex- vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has won the title of telling the biggest political lie of the year.

Environment

Fissures within Indian climate team get clearer

COPENHAGEN - Differences within the Indian government delegation at the Dec 7-18 climate summit became apparent here Tuesday, with delegation leader Shyam Saran deciding to return to New Delhi before the arrival of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.

Letters depicting Princess Di’s true heartache to go under the hammer

LONDON - Princess Diana poured out her heart and the inner turmoil at the breakdown of her marriage in a series of letters to her beautician Janet Filderman, which are set to go under the hammer.

Prince Harry, Chelsy Davy’s ‘9-hr Christmas lovefest in London’

LONDON - Prince Harry and his on-off girlfriend Chelsy Davy have reportedly shared a nine-hour long steamy night at her London pad.

UK priest says its OK for poor people to shoplift

London, December 22 (ANI): A vicar has created controversy by encouraging the poor to steal.

Pak bureaucracy stalls development work in POK

ISLAMABAD - Internal strife between Pakistan's Water and Power Ministry and the administration of occupied Kashmir is hampering development work of the region.

Security personnel among three killed in Peshawar suicide blast

Rare 3D Nazi stereo cards to go under hammer in January

Keylong freezes at minus 9.6 degrees Celsius

SHIMLA - Keylong was the coldest place in Himachal Pradesh Tuesday, as the minimum temperature there fell to minus 9.6 degrees Celsius, weather officials said.

Himachal to launch plastic-free drive

SHIMLA - The Himachal Pradesh government will launch a week-long campaign from Dec 21 to make the state plastic-free by removing all polythene bags from residential areas and hillsides, the chief minister said Tuesday.

2009 one of world’s hottest years since 1850

COPENHAGEN - This year is likely to rank as one of the "10 warmest" since 1850, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said Tuesday in a report providing further evidence that the world is heating up.

Temperature falls in Delhi

NEW DELHI - The national capital Tuesday experienced winter chill with both minimum and maximum temperatures dropping below normal.

Missing Panna tiger located

London

Prince William spends a night on the streets

LONDON - A cold alley in central London is a far cry from a palace - but it was the spot Prince William chose to sleep to highlight the plight of homeless British teenagers.

Eyelids on Xmas jumpers, glitter fragments in eyes among bizarre festive Injuries

Carla Bruni gives street side tramp 100 euros everyday

Australasia

US forces released 5 Iranians in Baghdad held since January 2007

US forces released 5 Iranians in Baghdad held since January 2007BAGHDAD - U.S. forces on Thursday released five Iranian officials who were detained in January 2007 in northern Iraq on suspicion of aiding Shiite Iraqi militants, Iranian and Iraqi officials said.

New Zealand defender comes out of retirement for Confederations Cup

Three-year-old buys $12,200 excavator on website

Gulf Middle East

Mullah Krekar: The wanted

Mullah Krekar: The wantedMullah Krekar, the founder of the militant organization Ansar al-Islam, but his whereabouts is very much open to all.

Three for hope: three US soldiers killed still hope exists among Shiite pilgrims

Yemen Airline Crash: Many Feared Dead

Pakistan

Suicide bombing at Peshawar Press Club kills four (Third Lead)

ISLAMABAD - At least four people were killed and 17 injured in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar Tuesday when a teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Press Club packed with journalists.

Pakistan in terrible trouble: Farooq Abdullah

BSF foils infiltration attempt near Jammu

Entertainment

Singer Feliciano protests 'Feliz Navidad' parody

NEW YORK - Grammy-winner Jose Feliciano is outraged that the theme from his holiday song "Feliz Navidad" was used for a musical spoof about undocumented immigrants.

Aamir Khan says Raju Hirani brainwashed him to act in 3 Idiots!

Music of Salman Khans Veer disappoints

Sports

India beat Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens to clinch series

India beat Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens to clinch seriesKOLKATA - India defeated Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the fourth one-day international (ODI) at the Eden Gardens here Thursday to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five match-series.

Older and wiser, Michael Beasley has a new outlook

Floodlight failure disrupts India-Sri Lanka ODI

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