A backlash against Wayne Rooney's appearance in a series of Sun interviews is gathering force on Merseyside.

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A consortium led by Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte and Telekom Malaysia Bhd has bid for the one-third stake of AT&T Wireless Services Inc in Indian telecom major Idea Cellular Ltd.

Cambodian police found the 50-year-old Kydd's body on Monday and suspect drug overdose as the cause of death, it said.

Nepal on Friday became the 147th member of the World Trade Organisation with the protocol of accession coming into force.

A 16-year-old Cambodian kick-boxer died after being smacked in the head by his 14-year-old opponent.

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday announced an 'open skies' arrangement with the ten-member ASEAN to allow designated airlines from the regional grouping to run daily flights to India.\n\n\n\n

Declaring that India was working on eliminating trade and investment barriers, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday advocated a trade turnover of $30 billion with ASEAN by year 2007.

A 'framework agreement' as a precursor to a free trade arrangement will be signed when the prime minister is in Indonesia next week.

India shares a good relationship with the US and was not under any pressure to send troops to Iraq, the foreign secretary said.

India will extend new credit lines to developing countries from the corpus of India Development Initiative Fund.\n\n\n\n

It got the maximum number of votes [47] in a secret ballot.

More suspected SARS patients have been detained in several places around the country.