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• Commonwealth Games Federation chief Fennell visits Games sites
• Reliance Broadcast sets JV with CBS to own TV channels
• Lok Sabha adjourned till 2pm over Sohrabuddin case
• Obama says recession recovery to take few years
• Venezuela bans violent photos in newspaper
• Nearly 80% of Gulf spill oil still in water: Experts
• UN General Assembly to meet on Pak floods; Clinton, Qureshi to attend
• Lebanon gives Palestinians employment rights
• Chess icon Bobby Fischer didn't father Philippines girl, say lawyers
• Arab man detained after hostage bid at Israel embassy in Turkey
• Detention hearings begin in Canada for Tamil refugees
• Palestinian rivals waging 'religious war': Hamas
• US stocks trade higher on positive economic data
• BJP relents, nuclear bill report in Parliament on Wednesday
• MPs rock Parliament for pay hike, govt promises bill this session

Commonwealth Games Federation chief Fennell visits Games sites Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:42 AM PDT Commonwealth Games Federation president Mike Fennell on Wednesday visited some of the Games sites in the capital as part of his two-day visit to monitor the preparedness for the Oct 3-14 mega sporting event.

Reliance Broadcast sets JV with CBS to own TV channels Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:37 AM PDT Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Broadcast Network (RBN) today said it has completed its final negotiations with US media conglomerate CBS Corp to form a JV to own and operate TV channels.

Lok Sabha adjourned till 2pm over Sohrabuddin case Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:48 PM PDT Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm on Wednesday after the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) members waved copies of Times of India alleging deal between the ruling Congress party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the nuke liabilities bill in exchange for clean chit to Narendra Modi in Sohrabuddin case.

Obama says recession recovery to take few years Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:03 PM PDT A campaigning President Barack Obama said on Tuesday it will take a few years to dig the US out of the recession, warning impatient voters that any candidate promising faster results ``is just looking for your vote.''

Venezuela bans violent photos in newspaper Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:29 PM PDT A court has ordered one of Venezuela's leading newspapers to stop publishing photographs depicting blood, guns and other violent images and warned it could face a hefty fine for having published a photo of bodies in a morgue.

Nearly 80% of Gulf spill oil still in water: Experts Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:37 PM PDT Nearly 80% of the oil spilled from a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is still in the gulf, US scientists have estimated, challenging a more optimistic assessment by the US government earlier in the month.

UN General Assembly to meet on Pak floods; Clinton, Qureshi to attend Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:54 PM PDT The United Nations has called a special meeting of the General Assembly on Wednesday to discuss the situation in flood-hit Pakistan and ask the member states to contribute expeditiously to help the affected people.

Lebanon gives Palestinians employment rights Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:55 PM PDT Lebanon expanded employment rights for 400,000 Palestinian refugees on Tuesday, changing a decades-old law that many have criticized for keeping the community impoverished and excluded from Lebanese society.

Chess icon Bobby Fischer didn't father Philippines girl, say lawyers Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:22 PM PDT DNA tests have shown that the chess genius was not the father of a 9-year-old girl from the Philippines, bringing a paternity claim against his estate to a close, two lawyers familiar with the case said on Tuesday.

Arab man detained after hostage bid at Israel embassy in Turkey Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:00 PM PDT A man carrying a knife and a toy gun broke into the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and attempted to take a diplomat hostage before being overpowered by security, Turkish officials said.

Detention hearings begin in Canada for Tamil refugees Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:46 AM PDT Hearings began on Tuesday for hundreds of Tamil refugees detained since landing last week on Canada's west coast onboard a cargo ship, as its passengers pleaded in letters for asylum.

Palestinian rivals waging 'religious war': Hamas Posted: 17 Aug 2010 10:32 AM PDT A Hamas leader in Gaza is accusing the rival Palestinian government in the West Bank of starting a "religious war" by exerting control over mosques there.

US stocks trade higher on positive economic data Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:37 AM PDT Wall Street shares traded higher Tuesday on the back of encouraging economic data and positive quarterly earnings from retail giant Wal-Mart.

BJP relents, nuclear bill report in Parliament on Wednesday Posted: 17 Aug 2010 09:47 AM PDT Ending weeks of impasse over the the contentious civil nuclear liability bill, the BJP Tuesday indicated its willingness to accept the trebling of compensation in case of an accident to Rs 1,500 crore, a key proposal contained in a panel's report that will be tabled in parliament Wednesday.

MPs rock Parliament for pay hike, govt promises bill this session Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:23 AM PDT Agitated over delay in raise in their salaries and allowances, MPs cutting across party lines raked up the issue today rocking Parliament and forcing the government to give an assurance that it would try to bring a bill in this regard during the current session.

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