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SAKHIR, Bahrain -- India is set to host a Formula One race starting in 2011. The decision was announced by governing body FIA on Thursday after a World Motor Sports...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly shrank in January, reflecting a big drop in imports of oil and foreign cars. American exports also fell, a potential blow to hopes that the economic recovery will be aided this year by U.S. sales abroad. The Commerce Department said the trade deficit declined to $37.3 billion in January, a drop of 6.6 percent from a revised December deficit of $39.9 billion. Economists had been expected the deficit to widen to $41 billion. U.S. exports dipped 0.3 percent, reflecting weaker sales of a wide variety of products from civilian aircraft and machinery to agricultural products. But imports dropped by a larger 1.7 percent as both oil...

WASHINGTON - Toyota's massive recalls are prompting Congress to reconsider whether the nation's auto safety agency has lived up to its mission of protecting motorists. A House panel today planned to examine the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's oversight of the auto industry in the latest congressional hearing linked to Toyota's recall of more than 8 million vehicles worldwide. Safety groups have accused NHTSA of being too cozy with the Japanese automaker while lacking the resources to test for vehicle problems that could be electronic, not mechanical. "NHTSA has been viewed by the...

Chennai, Mar 11 : The Tamil Nadu Government on Thursday said that it will take a decision on the plea for premature release of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassin Nalini Sriharan in two weeks time.  This was informed to the Madras High Court by the counsel for the...

Patna, Mar 11: A bomb was found in a car hired by Bihar Science and Technology Minister Anil Kumar on Thursday. ccording to...

NEW DELHI: The country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India, today said that Japanese auto giant Nissan has placed orders for 35,000 units of its small car A- Star for 2010-11 to sell in the European market. "As of now, we have a contract for three years and they have agreed to buy 35,000 units from us annually. It will be 35,000 units...

Local Government Association lists 250 words of jargon that public sector workers should stop using The folks down at the have today published a list of some 250 words that "should not be used by the public sector when providing information to the public". The argot has been drawn from central, regional and , quangos, business management speak and, not unexpectedly, the EU....

A female Russian tourist, who lived in Equatorial Guinea for six months, will have to undergo treatment for an exotic disease known as loiasis. BREAKING NEWS French President Nicolas Sarkozy finds his new love Red Carpet of the Oscars 2010 More... The woman arrived in the African country last winter. Six months later, she found a small white tumor on her shoulder. The tumor was 3-4 centimeters in diameter. The tumor disappeared in two days, but later reappeared...

Watch an exclusive preview clip from the film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's international bestseller 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' Directed by...

Brooklyn indie duo MGMT holds its spot as the most blogged musical act of the moment on March 11, one month before the group releases its second album, Congratulations. New to second and third place, according to The Hype Machine, are French electro-house artist Kavinsky and Austin, Texas indie pop...

For some it's an ugly, unspiritual perversion of Renaissance art. But mannerism's eccentric poetry has a rightful place in history El Greco's chromatic genius ... A monk admires a painting in Athens' National Gallery. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP They called it "the manner". The manner was precious, artificial, convoluted, a bit pretentious, often dry, always unnatural. It was everything that good, healthy, humane art is not...

New Delhi, Mar 11: The visiting African Union delegation on Thursday called on Minister of State for External...

Jaipur, Mar 11: Music lovers in Rajasthan had a festive time when many of them attended the ongoing 'Anunaad' -the National Folk Instrumental Festival- held at Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur.   Over 150 folk instruments were...

New Delhi, Mar. 11 : Just hours before the arrival of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin here on a two-day visit, the country's Ambassador to India, Alexander Kadakin, briefed ANI TV on a number of issues, both of bilateral and regional...

Gandhinagar, Mar 11 : Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been asked to appear before a Special Investigation Team on March 21 to explain his role in a 2002 Gujarat riots case.  The SIT reportedly said it...

 

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