As the United States combats a slowdown and Europe confronts a period of slower growth, economies on the Pacific Rim will need to do more to stimulate demand at home, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday.

"We are alarmed by recent incidents in Tibet of young people lighting themselves on fire in desperate acts of protest, as well as the continued house arrest of the Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng," Clinton said in her remarks at the East-West Centre in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The package has been receiving 'high demand', a news report said in Dubai.

Silence replaced the laughter at Rajesh Mirpuri's home when 9/11 took him a week before his birthday, finds George Joseph

Neil G Shastri's family has found solace in founding a trust in his name. Arthur J Pais reports.

Neil G Shastri's family has found solace in founding a trust in his name. Arthur J Pais reports.

United States President Barack Obama's father had intended to put his unborn son up for adoption, as the senior Obama tried to appease US immigration officials who raised concerns about him having two wives as well as his "playboy ways", a new book has revealed.

Barack Obama's mother was a truly unusual person, a woman with a curiosity, a keen intellect, and an internationalist orientation much ahead of her times, says B S Prakash after reading A Singular Woman

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The Daily Beast announced it second annual ranking of the best American cities for fresh graduates.

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The business tycoon came under a great deal of criticism in recent weeks, especially from the left leaning media, after he raised the question of Obama's birthplace forcing the White House to release his birth certificate that confirms he was born in Hawaii.

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A tsunami warning has been issued in north-eastern Japan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the east coast of Honshu. The Japan meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter.

United States President Barack Obama on Friday ordered a "comprehensive" safety review of all the nuclear power plants in the country in light of the current situation in Japan where high levels of radiation from quake-crippled reactors are threatening to spew-out disaster.

United States President Barack Obama has said that he was not worried about radiation from the quake hit Japanese nuclear power plant reaching Hawaii.

United States President Barack Obama on Friday telephoned Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan to discuss the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan and killed over 360 people, as the Pentagon geared up for a possible relief and rescue operation in affected areas.

United States President Barack Obama on Friday expressed his deepest condolences to the people of Japan who have lost loved ones in the earthquake and tsunamis, saying Washington was ready to help Tokyo in this time of great trial.

Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to the Congress on Wednesday that the administration had determined that the Defence of Marriage Act, which was passed by Congress in 1996, discriminated against gays and therefore could no longer be accepted as reasonable, the Guardian reports.

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NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, which measures 1.4 times the size of Earth and is the smallest planet ever discovered outside the solar system.

Arjun Atwal rode on a brilliant front nine with five birdies to card a four-under 69 at the par-73 Plantation Course to move up by one position at the midway stage of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Kapalua.

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The Obamas' Hawaiian holiday is costing the national exchequer at least 1.5 million dollars, and in normal circumstances, no one would mind it. But with mainland America battered by snow storms, there has been all round criticism for the United States President's trip.

"During my first visit to India, I will be joined by hundreds of American business leaders and their Indian counterparts to announce concrete progress toward our export goal -- billions of dollars in contracts that will support tens of thousands of American jobs," Obama wrote in an op-ed piece published in The New York Times.

While Obama's visit to India has a strategic and economic dimension, what the visit portends for the US's relations with China is a big question, says strategic expert B Raman.

Three times world surfing champion Andy Irons was found dead on Tuesday in a Dallas hotel room. The 32-year-old had been on his way home to Hawaii from a contest in Puerto Rico.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a video-taped message from Hawaii to a parley titled, "US-India People to People Conference: Building the Foundation for a Strong Partnership," lauded the Indian American community for being bridge builders that was catalytic towards "deepening the partnership between our two countries and people."

Clude Arpi salutes the Nobel prize committee for giving the peace prize to jailed Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.

Tennis players who grunt loudly when they hit the ball appear to have a competitive edge over their opponents, according to a study by Canadian and American researchers.

Navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma will be on a 10-day visit to the United States beginning Thursday where he will meet the defence top brass to discuss furthering of relations between the two militaries.

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Barack Obama traded passes and scuffles with famous hoopsters like Kobe Bryant and Earvin "Magic" Johnson ahead of a White House barbecue birthday bash where the US president treated his friends with seafood from oil-tainted Gulf of Mexico.

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The International Monetary Fund has added island nation Tuvalu located in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia as its 187th member.

With the agreement over processing of spent nuclear fuel, a major stumbling block for the 'operationalisation' of the Indo-US nuclear deal has been removed

Japan and Russia went on alert on Sunday, clearing tens of thousands of people out of vulnerable coastal areas as a tsunami triggered by Chile's massive killer quake powered across the Pacific.

Beginning May 1, the airline will do away with free blankets and would charge $8 for a set of blanket and pillow.

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