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Toyota expects auto market to recover next year

Toyota Motor CorpParis - Despite the slump in the American and European automobile markets because of the finance crisis, the European head of the Japanese car maker Toyota said Thursday that he expected a gradual recovery next year.

"In the long term, the sales of compact cars will increase in Europe. But there will always be people who need large automobiles," Tadashi Arashima told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Toyota has encountered problems on the German market because certain of its models were nearing the end of their cycles.

No changes in content of 123 Agreement: Mulford

United States, IndiaNew Delhi, Oct 2 : Celebrating the passage of Indo-US civil nuclear deal by a thumping majority of 86-13 votes in the Senate, US Ambassador to India David Mulford said on Thursday that it is a great day for both the democracies and deal has finally become a reality.

The US Congress today approved the Indo-US civil nuclear deal when the Senate overwhelmingly voted a Bill rejecting all the killer amendments, and paving the way for the implementation of the historic initiative between the two countries.

EU's Barroso hails US rescue package vote

US confirms deployment of powerful radar to Israel Brussels - The head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, on Thursday hailed the US Senate's approval of a 700-billion-dollar rescue plan for the financial sector, calling the vote a "step in the right direction."

Barroso is "delighted by the adoption of the Paulson plan," which is a "step in the right direction," his spokesman, Johannes Laitenberger, told journalists in Brussels.

"We need to inject confidence into the markets at the moment ... We hope that other steps will follow," Laitenberger said.

Indian leaders welcome nuke deal amid criticism from opposition

nuclear assets volatile state are threat indiaNew Delhi - Leaders from India's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on Thursday welcomed the passage of the India-US civilian nuclear deal by the US Congress while domestic opposition leaders termed it a "surrender to US imperialism."

"It is a historic moment," Indian National Congress party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi told reporters in New Delhi. "The deal is in the interest of India. It is a recognition of India as a superpower and the triumph of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's vision."

Clintons doing bare minimum for Obama after Hillary not promised judgeship

Bill ClintonNew York, Oct 2 : Former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary lately are showing less interest in Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s election campaign, after he refused to guarantee Hillary a US Supreme Court judgeship is he wion the election and occupied the White House.

After Obama rejected her as his running mate for the Vice-President post, Hillary made it clear to Obama’s camp that she wanted to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

Satellites the size of a loaf of bread to study space weather

Govt. to launch satellite Aditya to study the sun in 2008Washington, October 2 : Researchers and students from the University of Michigan in the US will design and build a satellite about the size of a loaf of bread, which will be deployed to study space weather.

Undergraduate and graduate students will be heavily involved in this Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) project, led by the University of Michigan (U-M) and SRI International, a California-based independent research and technology development organization.

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