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India carmaker Maruti profit rises as demand races ahead (AFP)
oktober 30, 2010by latadmin
AFP – India’s biggest carmaker by sales, Maruti Suzuki, on Saturday reported a five percent jump in quarterly net profit, as the fast-expanding economy...
Much ado about nothing
oktober 30, 2010by latadmin
Barack Obama is expected to arrive in India this week in time for Diwali, the subcontinent’s festival of light. In Delhi and Mumbai a machinegun racket of...
Taliban attack on Afghan combat post repelled
oktober 30, 2010by latadmin
KHOST, Afghanistan (AFP) – An Afghan official said Saturday that 80 Taliban insurgents were killed during a failed attack on a NATO combat outpost near the border...
Jury weighs punishment in Guantanamo ‘child soldier’ case
oktober 30, 2010by latadmin
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A prosecutor urged a military jury to send a message to the world Saturday with a 25-year sentence for a former teenage...
Ben Crane’s third-round 66 seals two-shot edge in Malaysia
oktober 30, 2010by latadmin
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — of the United States birdied three of his last four holes Saturday to...
Australia beat New Zealand in rugby cliffhanger
oktober 30, 2010by latadmin
HONG KONG (AFP) – The Wallabies won a nailbiting final Bledisloe Cup Test in Hong Kong 26-24 with the last kick of the match Saturday to end a 10-game losing...
Samoa storm back to beat Japan 13-10
oktober 30, 2010by latadmin
TOKYO (AFP) – Visitors Samoa avenged their loss in the Pacific Nations Cup in June when they roared back from 10 points behind to beat Japan 13-10 in a rugby test...
Afghanistan complains about Russians in drug raid
oktober 30, 2010by latadmin
KABUL, Afghanistan-Afghanistan’s president said Saturday he had not been informed in advance of Russian participation in a NATO-led drug raid that netted $56...
India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets
oktober 30, 2010by latadmin
MUMBAI, India-The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that...
A Samurai Reformer Inspires a Nation Adrift
oktober 29, 2010by latadmin
From Prime Minister Naoto Kan to Sapporo Beer executives, many in Japan are invoking the legacy of Ryoma Sakamoto, the 19th century samurai who helped modernize the...
