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MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The cash-strapped Hyderabad franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has invited bids for its Twenty20 team in what is perceived as yet another sign of the league’s diminishing sheen.

(Trinidad Express) For the first time since the Government intervened in the bailout of collapsed insurance giant CLICO more than three years ago, Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran yesterday admitted that, as a supervisory body, there was a perception that the Bank “faltered”.

(Barbados Nation) There is a proposal for customs officers to undergo polygraph (lie detector) tests.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama asked Americans yesterday for patience in rebuilding the weak economy as he appealed for a new term in office and defiantly rejected Republican Mitt Romney’s proposals to restore growth.

Two men, including a Roraima Airways employee, were today remanded to prison over the almost two kilos of cocaine intercepted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) on Monday.

Tourists are postponing holidays in Bermuda and locals are stocking up on emergency supplies as Hurricane Leslie nears Bermuda, the Associated Press reported today.

CHEVALINE, France, (Reuters) – A four-year-old British girl spent eight hours cowering among the bodies of three adults, thought to be her mother, father and grandmother, who were shot dead in a car in the French Alps.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities have arrested the American captain of a U.S.-flagged

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Corporal Dwight Smart has now been charged in relation to the shooting death on Saturday of an eight-month pregnant woman and the injuring of her sister in St Thomas.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government will be exploring the engagement of psychological services for the Jamaica Constabulary Force in the wake of Saturday’s shooting death of 27-year-old pregnant mother Kayann Lamont and the injury of her sister by a policeman in St Thomas.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadso could face sanctions from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) if tighter security measures are not introduced in and around Grantley Adams International Airport.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Having knocked down many an off stump during his time as England cricket captain, Andrew Flintoff hopes to do the same to opponents when he takes to the boxing ring later this year.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., (Reuters) – Former President Bill Clinton gave a rousing defense of President Barack Obama’s handling of the weak U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Roger Federer was knocked out of the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Social media users created a sense of panic yesterday after the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii mistakenly reported that the Caribbean was under a tsunami watch.

(Trinidad Express) In a cruel twist of fate, 26-year-old Donna Diana Persad was struck and killed by a car at Rochard Douglas Road in Barrackpore on Tuesday, two months after her mother was killed in the same way, near the same spot, in the arms of the same man.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., (Reuters) – Florida officials today were reviewing a federal judge’s ruling ordering the state to stop charging U.S.-born

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan crushed Australia by seven wickets in the opening Twenty20 international today.

Amidst an ongoing furore over the awarding of a US$18.1M contract to Surendra Engineering to build a specialty hospital, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel Group Limited, owned by billionaire Denis O’Brien, is planning to raise another US$700 million of debt financing through a private bond placement, the telecoms announced today.