In the ongoing Indian Cricket League 20s Indian Championship, Chennai Superstars on Tuesday defeated Hyderabad Heroes by 18 runs at Sardar Patel Stadium. Chasing a victory target of 161 runs in the allotted 20 overs, Hero’s led by Chris Harris could score only 142 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.

Super Talent Technology Corporation, a top maker of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, has made announcement about the launching of a new family of high performance, feature rich Luxio USB drives in capacities up to 64GB.
 
A 64GB Luxio drive can store up as many as 20,000 six megapixel photos or 16,000 MP3 songs.

Moreover, Luxio drives are housed in a sleek 21 x 76 x 10 mm UV coated ABS/PC case with chrome plated zinc trim. All models contain advanced AES-256 hardware encryption as a standard feature for quick, convenient data security.

Available in three different colors including black, silver and wood grain, Luxio drives are packaged in an stylish gift box and also include a custom made black leather carrying case.

New Delhi - India on Wednesday launched its first mission to the moon with a "perfect" lift-off of the unmanned Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, placing the country among a select group of nations that have sent lunar missions.

The 44-metre tall Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C11)rocket carrying the Chandrayaan probe lifted off at 0622 local time (0052 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, 
80 kilometres north of the southern Chennai city.

The Indian Space Research Organization chief G Madhavan Nair described it as a "historic moment."

Judith Miller, who worked with New York Times and was ordered 85 days imprisonment for contempt of court, has joined Fox News Channel.

Sydney - Despite inflation rising to its fastest pace since 1995, interest rates are likely to fall again before the end of the year because the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is more worried about slowing growth than rising prices, economists said Wednesday.

The consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.2 per cent in the September quarter, taking the annualized inflation rate to 5 per cent from 4.5 per cent in the year to June.

Beijing - This week's largest ever gathering of Asian and European leaders was planned to focus on efforts to combat climate change and promote sustainable development, but those efforts now look likely to be overshadowed by the need to respond to the global financial turmoil.

Talks on the financial crisis are expected to be "very intense" between leaders of the 27 European and 16 Asian nations at the seventh biannual Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Beijing, Serge Abou, the EU ambassador to China, told reporters.

"The main thing is to come out with strong and united messages conveying confidence," Herve Ladsous, the French ambassador to China, said of the talks on global finance.