
| Bank of America customers will soon be unable to spend more than they have in the accounts linked to their debit cards. It's a step that may become a common move ahead of new regulations limiting overdraft fees. |
| Myanmar's ruling junta announces a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national elections. |
| Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today defended her party's decision to abstain from voting on the Women's Reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha but said she was in favour of the Constitutional amendment. See graphics | Listen to podcast |
| Police in Ireland on Tuesday arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. |
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| A Delhi court has granted bail to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for his alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The leader appeared in court after being 'missing' for almost a month. |
| Taking action against the players for their poor performance on the Australian tour, PCB has imposed life bans on Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan. Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved have been banned for a year. |
| 'Bring cops . . . a lot of them!' he pleads during a home invasion. Authorities were hailing a 7-year-old Norwalk boy as a hero Tuesday after he hid in a bathroom and called 911 as three armed attackers burst into his home and threatened his parents. |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a survey released on Wednesday. |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of the House of Representatives -- a persuasive arm-twister and deal maker -- faces her toughest challenge yet in the coming weeks: getting 216 votes to pass final legislation revamping the U.S. healthcare system. |
| REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland's opposition turned up the heat on the center-left government on Wednesday to hold out for a tough new "Icesave" debt accord with Britain and the Netherlands, after a referendum rejection of its previous deal. |