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  • US intelligence sees poverty plummet by 2030

    July 29, 2012 12:30 PM

    ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Poverty across the planet will drop sharply by 2030, with a rising middle class of some two billion people pushing for more rights and resources. The chief at the U.S. government's top intelligence analysis shop says if current economic and demographic trends continue, 1 billion people... more »
  • Pakistan chief to visit India on low-profile trip

    April 8, 2012 12:34 AM

    NEW DELHI (AP) - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is scheduled to visit India on a private trip that also gives him a chance to meet Indian leaders amid a thaw in relations between the two South Asian rivals. Zardari's visit Sunday, the first by a Pakistani head of state... more »
  • Drug-resistant TB blamed on Indian treatment flaws

    March 23, 2012 1:30 PM

    NEW DELHI (AP) - India's inadequate government-run tuberculosis treatment programs and a lack of regulation of the sale of drugs that fight it are responsible for the spiraling number of drug-resistant cases that are difficult to treat, health activists said Friday. India adds an estimated 99,000 cases of drug-resistant TB... more »
  • Indian drugmaker OK'd to launch generic Lipitor

    November 30, 2011 8:38 PM

    PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - India's biggest maker of generic drugs has gotten approval to launch a generic version of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor, which lost U.S. patent protection Wednesday. Analysts, pharmacists and others had been watching closely to see whether Ranbaxy Laboratories would be able to get its generic on... more »
  • President talks up trade in India

    November 6, 2010 11:44 AM

    MUMBAI, India (AP) - President Barack Obama says new trade deals between the U.S. and India will support more than 50,000 jobs in the U.S. He said the relationship between America and India should be a win for both sides - while acknowledging concerns in America about outsourcing. ... more »
  • Americans number 5 in generosity - so who tops the list?

    September 8, 2010 3:11 PM

    Australia and New Zealand share first place, and the United States is tied for fifth, in a first-of-its kind survey ranking 153 nations on the willingness of their citizens to donate time and money to charity. China ranks near the bottom, barely above last-place Madagascar. The report was... more »
  • Durango dentist killed in Afghanistan remembered

    August 16, 2010 8:14 AM

    A Durango dentist who was among 10 medical volunteers killed in Afghanistan was remembered at a memorial service for his fascination with "The Simpsons" television show, the rice he made from an Afghan recipe and his impressive Scrabble vocabulary. Speakers at a Durango auditorium on Sunday also spoke of... more »
  • De Niro, Brooklyn, India on last Kodachrome roll

    August 2, 2010 3:47 PM

    Entrusted with the last manufactured roll of Kodachrome film, Steve McCurry has photographed the Brooklyn Bridge, New York's Grand Central Terminal and even Robert De Niro. McCurry also went to southern Asia, where in 1984 he took a portrait of a green-eyed Afghan refugee girl that made the cover... more »
  • Arraignment set for Chicago terrorism suspect

    January 25, 2010 11:22 AM

    A Chicago man accused of planning a violent attack on a Danish newspaper and laying the groundwork for the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, is set to be arraigned. Tahawwur Hussain Rana will appear in federal court Monday in Chicago. Rana is one of two men accused of planning... more »
  • A nose for music: man plays flute with his nose

    December 16, 2009 9:47 AM

    An Indian flute player has trained himself to play the instrument from his nose instead of his mouth. The flute player says he wanted to come up with a unique way to draw audiences to his performances. He decided there was no reason why he couldn't play the flute... more »
  • Envoys scale back U.N. climate pact ambitions

    November 6, 2009 9:59 AM

    Negotiators and diplomats were working Thursday on a scaled-back version of a global climate change treaty that could be agreed by next month's deadline, without firm U.S. commitments. The idea of forging a political agreement, instead of a legally binding treaty, was becoming a more accepted possibility as negotiators... more »
  • Alarming' melt of glaciers in Indian Kashmir

    October 13, 2009 2:26 PM

    Indian Kashmir's glaciers are melting fast because of rising temperatures, threatening the water supply of millions of people in the Himalayan region, a new study by Indian scientists says. The study by Kashmir University's geology and geophysics department blamed the effect on climate change, and said it endangered the... more »
  • Death toll from floods rises to 205 in south India

    October 4, 2009 8:44 AM

    Five days of torrential rain have left at least 205 people dead and 750,000 displaced in southern India. Authorities say medical teams are rushing to the flood-devastated area today. The floods have submerged entire villages, snapped transport and communication links and raised fears of disease spreading in relief camps crowded... more »
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