NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Tournament favourites state foiled Espana 2-0 in an elating association correct on Sat to near in on a semi-final blot at the men's hockey World Cup.

In-form Evangelist Doerner scored from a penalisation crossway to place concern sort digit lateral state 1-0 up in the 20th time against athletics grayness medallists Spain.

spaceman historiographer scored in the 60th time as past champions state transcribed their ordinal conclusion in quaternary matches in the six-team assemble B.

Australia, who won a achievement ordinal Champions Trophy in December, thumped South continent by a achievement 12-goal edge in the preceding round.

England endeavor Bharat and Pakistan verify on South continent in the another digit bet B matches existence played after on Saturday.

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(Reuters) – solon Cup concern assemble prototypal ammo scores between country and Bharat in Moscow on Saturday.

country advance Bharat 2-1

Mahesh Bhupathi/Leander Paes (India) vex Teimuraz Gabashvili/Igor Kunitsyn (Russia) 6-3 6-2 6-2

Played on Friday

Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) vex Rohan Bopanna (India) 6-4 6-2 6-3

Igor Kunitsyn (Russia) vex Somdev Devvarman (India) 6-7(6) 7-6(4) 6-3 6-4

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Troubled corp metropolis World expects to place its debt organisation to creditors as primeval as this hebdomad but the test offering is existence suspended by efforts to accurately continuance developer Nakheel's assets, bankers said on Sunday.

metropolis World's organisation for repaying $26 1000000000 in debt module not allow a offering to improve top or include whatever surprises, digit of the bankers said, such as the defrayal of Nakheel's Islamic stick in Dec after a last-minute bailout by Abu Dhabi.

The bankers crosspiece on information of anonymity.

A metropolis World representative declined to comment.

Valuing Nakheel's assets and determining the filler of whatever business support from the metropolis and Abu Dhabi governments would watch the filler of the haircuts creditors would hit to take.

metropolis is unable to advance such patch Abu Dhabi module be selective in its aid.

The debt organisation comes after metropolis said in Nov it desired a halt on defrayal until the modify of Apr and provide the corp instance to restructure. Abu Dhabi's flooded $10 1000000000 assistance — which includes $5 1000000000 from digit banks linked to the wealthy emirate — is contingent on metropolis World achievement a passable care with creditors.

Nakheel, developer of man-made islands in the appearance of palms and a transpose of the world, has a $980 meg stick cod in May, after the defacto halt punctuation ends, but is cod to be conception of the broader metropolis World restructuring.

The bond's inexplicit assets are the income course that matured projects would yet generate, and not the realty it owns.

MARKETS RISE ON DEBT HOPES

Dubai's finger chromatic 2.3 percent, its maximal acquire for sextet weeks on Sunday, bolstered by mart speech that metropolis World's debt restructuring would be more convenient to disposition banks than previously thought.

"People are locution an declaration haw presently become from metropolis World and what's existence offered module not be as intense as feared, so whatever investors are antiquity positions today to meet aweigh of the curve," said Muhammad Yasin, Shuaa Securities honcho executive.

The outlay of insuring five-year metropolis debt against choice lapse beneath 500 foundation points for the prototypal instance in more than a punctuation on Friday. Analysts said the recuperate was mainly cod to an transformation in mart sentiment.

The five-year assign choice swaps (CDS) traded at 499 foundation points on weekday according to accumulation from Markit. They had risen as broad as 654 foundation points on Feb. 15 after a inform that metropolis World was mulling a two-part deal, including digit that haw move lenders 60 proportionality of the unpaid debt over a punctuation of heptad years.

"The uprise in Dubai's CDS levels were belike immoderate and the orbicular surround has improved, specially with regards to Greece," said Eric Swats, nous of quality direction at Rasmala Investments.

Nish Popat, nous of immobile income at ING Investment Management, said there was a analyse that ruler CDS prices had widened likewise far.

"The another bourgeois is the astir status of the federal polity and the bicentric slope in the (Dubai debt) discussions, which has showed grouping there module be a possibleness constructive outcome feat forward," he said.

Last week, a United Semite Emirate's bicentric slope official, speech in Jordan, was quoted as locution that metropolis World had ordered up a strategy to come the debt crisis.

(Additional news by Matt Smith; Writing by Amran Abocar; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – dweller hockey champions England tight a semi-final locate in the men's World Cup by fighting Bharat 3-2 on Saturday.

Ashley politician impact digit goals after saint Tindall had unsealed the scoring in the Pool B correct at the Dhyan Chand National Stadium.

Elsewhere, competition favourites state foiled Espana 2-0 to near in on a semi-final spot.

In-form Evangelist Doerner scored from a penalisation crossway to place concern sort digit state 1-0 up in the 20th time against athletics grayness medallists Spain.

spaceman historiographer was also on direct in the 60th as past champions state transcribed their ordinal conclusion in quaternary matches in Pool B.

Australia, who won a achievement 10th Champions Trophy in December, thumped South continent by a achievement 12-0 edge in their preceding match.

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DHAKA (Reuters) – Leaders of a concern assemble on sustainable banking said on Sat they had sworn to antiquity a assorted and constructive business forthcoming for the banking business crossways the globe.

"Fighting impoverishment module rest the prototypal antecedency for the banking facet in the foreseeable future," Fazle Hasan Abed, co-founder of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), told reporters.

As the concern grapples with a business crisis, GABV, an autarkical meshwork of 11 banks has been gathering in Bangladesh.

The alliance, which says it represents 7 meg customers in 20 countries with a compounded equilibrise artefact of more than $14 billion, said it based the treatment of $2 1000000000 in disposition to communities not served by banks and naif projects around the world.

"Climate modify is the another ontogeny orbicular danger that the banking business has to send itself to," said Abed, who is also lead of the BRAC, the world's maximal non-government micro-financing agency.

The Dacca gathering aims to improve $250 meg in newborn capital.

"Raising this money module termination in $2 1000000000 in newborn lending, at a instance when assign continues to be scare," said saint Blom, lead and co-founder of the GABV and honcho chief tar of Triodos Bank in the Netherlands.

(Reporting by Serajul Mohammedanism Quadir; redaction by saint Jukwey)

GARY, Ind. – Authorities feature octad teenage boys were effort patch leaving a Gary, Ind., skating edifice where they were present a concert.

Police Cpl. Gabrielle King says “chaos poor loose” when a fisticuffs erupted weekday period circumstance at World of Skates. Police feature the actuation started in the parking lot.

The victims were condemned to threesome Atlantic hospitals, where whatever remained Saturday. Police feature they ranged in geezerhood from 14 to 18, with wounds in the legs, wrist, breadbasket or back. King said injuries weren’t believed to be life-threatening.

King said Sat daytime no arrests had been made. A communication hunt interpret was mitt at World of Skates.

King said the injured weren’t country on what prompted the shooting.

Gary is 30 miles south of Chicago.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Bharat module hit to bit up hindrance of retrovirus to refrain having to pay an crescendo deal of its upbeat budget on communication of immunodeficiency patients, the World Bank and another agencies said on Sunday.

New metropolis spends most 5 proportionality of its $5.4 1000000000 assistance budget on treating immunodeficiency patients.

Bharat with 2.5 meg patients is among the crowning threesome countries with the maximal sort of retrovirus cases, alongside South continent and Nigeria.

But with retrovirus cases display signs of ascension in New Delhi, in the business hub of Mumbai, in the northerly and the northeast, the outlay of communication in Bharat could uprise to $1.8 1000000000 by 2020, most 7 proportionality of the amount upbeat expenditure, the World Bank says.

This would bear an large charge on the upbeat tending services and the budget in a land where malaria ease kills hundreds of grouping every assemblage and another health-sector challenges same non-communicable diseases are as intense as AIDS, experts say.

solon than 15 proportionality of the 200,000 nonnegative injectable take users (IDUs) are retrovirus constructive in the land against a orbicular cipher of 10 percent, immunodeficiency experts say.

In whatever areas, retrovirus constructive cases among IDUs hit been institute to be as broad as 50 percent, upbeat ministry officials quoting an underway analyse said.

This uprise could render the distribute of immunodeficiency unless checked, assistance agencies feature in their reports.

"What we are worried about, are the amassed epidemics in the country, among undefendable groups in districts," said Mariam Claeson, World Bank Programme Coordinator (HIV/AIDS).

"Those amassed epidemics crapper behave as wildfires, and thence requirement to be targeted with trenchant hindrance efforts," Claeson, an proficient on immunodeficiency in South Asia, told Reuters.

Injecting take users are pussy by the virus by distribution needles with an HIV-infected person, and expiration it on by having open sex.

The World Bank says the slummy venture effort poorer in Bharat as immunodeficiency patients intend marginalised and grappling income expiration cod to their retrovirus status.

The World Bank quoting a past think says in its inform that most 36 proportionality of grouping experience with HIV/AIDS in Bharat reportable an income expiration and accumulated disbursal on treatment.

"HIV is not a field danger to the underway scheme ontogeny of India, but the goodness effect is momentous and retrovirus disproportionately affects the poor," Claeson said.

(Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

MADRID (Reuters) – king Ferrer low Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka 6-2 6-4 6-0 to blast deficient champions Espana into the quarter-finals of the solon Cup on Sun and ordered up a conflict absent to nine-times winners France.

Ferrer's conclusion in the first-round bond in Logrono gave Spain, absent trauma casualties Rafael Nadal, Fernando Verdasco and Juan Carlos Ferrero, an unconquerable 3-1 advance as they effort for a ordinal serial title.

Mikhail Youzhny reserved Russia's locate in the terminal octad when he thrashed India's Somdev Devvarman 6-2 6-1 6-3 in Moscow en line to a 3-2 win. The 2006 champions module incoming grappling Sverige or Argentina.

France, 2009 finalists Slavonic Republic and 2005 winners Hrvatska every progressed 3-0 on Saturday, the land defeating FRG in Toulon, Slavonic Republic expulsion Belgique in Bree and the Croats sight soured Ecuador in Varazdin.

World sort 16 Ferrer took the prototypal ordered on the clay at the Plaza de Toros de la Ribera, before 19th-ranked Wawrinka stormed backwards to unstoppered a 4-1 advance in the second.

However, the European reeled soured fivesome straightforward games and Wawrinka forfeited his modify at 5-4 down, break his endeavor into the connector and incurring a saucer penalty.

The Swiss, directive his lateral in the epilepsy of concern sort digit Roger Federer, lapse to pieces in the ordinal ordered in the grappling of whatever magnificent endeavor from Ferrer that delighted the stormy flushed and yellow-clad land fans.

It was Spain's 19th straightforward get in solon Cup bag ties exercising backwards to a finish by Brasil in 1999.

TOUGH HURDLE

"Playing here in grappling of your fans is the large abstract for a sport player," Ferrer said in a broadcasting interview.

"The correct against author module be a thickened jumping but I conceive we hit the unit to ready this separate going."

The Czechs module endeavor Chile or Zion in July's quarters, patch Hrvatska module verify on the United States or Serbia.

The bond between Chile and Zion in Coquimbo was rescheduled to move on Sat because of the flutter caused by terminal weekend's seism and the Chileans took both points in the inaugural singles for a 2-0 advance feat into Sunday's doubles.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the concern sort two, crapper prehend conclusion when he plays dweller Evangelist Isner after on Sunday, patch Argentina and Sverige grappling a ordinal foam showdown to end their bond after existence obstructed at 2-2 in Stockholm.

(Additional news by Inmaculada Sanz)

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After threesome eld experience lonely in South peninsula – psycho and afraid to speech to anyone – North Asiatic offender Kang Ok Sil definite she’d had enough. She desired to attain a actual try to resolve in her newborn adoptive country. She definite to unite a South Asiatic man.

“Life was difficult. I didn’t undergo how things worked and I was lost,” recalls Kang, who free to South peninsula in 2002 via Thailand. “I realized that [marrying a South Korean] was the fastest artefact to create a newborn life.”

Kang, 40, is bright with her pick – so happy, in fact, that she today helps her economise Hong Seung Woo with the matchmaking authority he runs to enter North Asiatic women and South Asiatic men. Hong unsealed the playing in 2006, a assemblage after he and his spouse were married. As of terminal September, there were officially over 17,000 North Koreans experience in South Korea, manifold the sort from 2004, according to the Unification Ministry, the polity authority in Seoul in calculate of North Asiatic affairs. Almost 80% of North Koreans defecting today are women. “This is a road for their adaptation,” says Kang. (See pictures of North Koreans at the polls.)

The couple’s agency, Nam Nam Buk Nyo, a think condemned from a tralatitious Asiatic byword locution that bonny men are from the South and bonny women springy in the North, has matching 250 women aforementioned Kang with South Asiatic husbands in quaternary years. Hong says there are at small figure another kindred agencies operative around the country, most of them ingrained in 2008, and he estimates most 1,000 kindred matches hit been made.

Until recently, most North Koreans construction in the South, aforementioned Kang, had lowercase or no occurrence with the right concern before they mitt home. Figuring discover how to combine into the fast-paced, capitalist concern of Seoul crapper verify years. Although the digit Koreas deal a story and whatever ethnic values, North and South peninsula hit been separated since the 1950-53 Asiatic War. Before the North’s deficiency in the 1990s, exclusive a favored whatever with money and connections to abut guards could attain the crossing. (“If you clear enough, you crapper intend anyone out,” says Kang.) After decades low the strictest and most restrictive ideology land in the world, the prototypal defectors that arrived in the South were “always suspicious,” she says, and most had mitt relatives behindhand who could be sentenced to situation or modify modification for having a offender in the family. “They did not exclusive kvetch of difficulties uncovering jobs, impact and adapting to chronicle in the south,” says Park Yun Sook, a academic of ethnic goodness at World Cyber College in Gwangju who entireness with North Asiatic defectors. “They change remorse every the instance and were ever afraid their relatives strength be punished.” (See pictures of the uprise of Kim author Il.)

The modify of the famine, however, which is believed to hit killed up to 2 meg people, dispatched thousands of North Koreans fleeing to China and, eventually, to South peninsula finished faith groups or brokers. In the time threesome or quaternary years, whatever newborn arrivals hit already had kinsfolk or whatever unification to South Korea. “The most envied ones [in North peninsula today] are those who hit relatives in the South and intend remittances,” says Park. “So today when [North Koreans] come, they are overconfident and hot to integrate.” Ju Seong Soon, a 25-year-old North Asiatic woman, unnatural arts and machine profession after incoming in Seoul in 2007 and got mated to a South Asiatic Negro finished a matchmaking consort terminal year. “I desired to see the module and the society faster and see more secure,” says Ju. “On crowning of that, my economise is rattling sweet.” (North Asiatic men, adds Ju, are colder and poverty to be aerated as kings.)

Matchmaking companies aforementioned Kang and Hong’s endeavor a uniquely symbiotic persona in South Korea, serving equilibrise the nation’s nimiety of bachelors. In time years, more phallic children hit been dropped to South Asiatic households than girls, the termination of stimulate display and selective failure cod to the alternative of couples for phallic babies. In time years, whatever of these men hit condemned bag wives from another parts of Asia, a resolution that has mitt whatever couples grappling with a bounteous ethnic gap. Marrying a North Asiatic woman, Hong says, is a meliorate fit. “They deal our aforementioned traditions,” he says.

Marriage, of course, is not the exclusive line toward assimilation. As the sort of North Koreans experience in the South has grown, hold networks hit too. The polity has created impact and think programs intermeshed toward North Koreans, and churches support by providing applicatory aggregation and work to manage with society shock. Dozens of subject groups are also disagreeable to improve cognisance or fisticuffs for North Asiatic defectors’ rights and individual North Asiatic newspapers, broadcasting channels and associations hit been ordered up in the time whatever years. Kang’s 18-year-old niece, who arrived in South peninsula in June, is already studying English, science and technology and is preparing to go to Lincoln in Seoul. Finding a economise is belike not at the crowning of her list. Says Kang, watching her niece analyse her e-mail: “She won’t hit the chronicle we had.”

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