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A four-year-old nursery student was allegedly sexually assaulted by the attendant of a school bus in Mumbai, India.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Friday were Xilinx Inc, Starz, Life Technologies Corporation and Trius Therapeutic Inc while the top after-market NASDAQ losers were magicJack VocalTec Ltd, Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Aviat Networks Inc, Avis Budget Group Inc and Power-One Inc.

The Supreme Court of India accepted a motion on Friday to consider a juvenile accused in the Delhi gang-rape case an adult. The court issued a notice to the central government and the Delhi police based on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) motion that was filed by a Chandigarh-based lawyer.

Iran and the IAEA failed to arrive at a consensus on resuming the investigations into the country’s suspected nuclear weapon facilities.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Thursday were NuPathe Inc, Education Management Corporation, Life Technologies Corporation and Unilife Corporation, while the top after-market NASDAQ losers were Trius Therapeutic Inc, Intel Corporation, MAKO Surgical Corp, J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc and Oncothyreo Inc.

The tussle between the Supreme Court and the civilian government in Pakistan escalated Friday.

A court in Britain heard the details of the sufferings of six girls who were sexually abused by nine men.

Two people were killed Wednesday as a helicopter hit a crane in central London and exploded.

Russia suspended the operations at its consulate in Aleppo after twin blasts on a university campus killed 80 people.

A young woman stole a passenger train, drove it at a high speed and rammed it into an apartment building near Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday.

France continued with the air strikes against Islamic rebels in Mali throughout Monday night and the U.S. is mulling sending drones and providing aid to the French troops. Efforts to deploy African troops gathered pace as well.

At least 19 army recruits were killed and 103 others were injured when an Egyptian military train derailed south of Cairo, officials from Health Ministry said Tuesday.

Maha Kumbh Mela – identified as one of the most spectacular shows of faith - observed once in 12 years, began in Allahabad, India, Monday.

WisdomTree India Earnings Fund, Transocean, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc, Express, Portugal Telecom, Apple Inc, Cirrus Logic and Herbalife Ltd are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Monday.

India’s headline inflation declined to 7.18 percent in December from 7.24 percent in November.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised computer users to temporarily disable or uninstall Oracle Corp.'s (NASDAQ:ORCL) Java software, stating that a serious flaw in the software could make the system vulnerable to hacking.

India's trade deficit narrowed to $17.7 billion in December from $19.3 billion in November, even as the exports fell and imports rose, according to the data released by the Ministry of Commerce Friday.

India's industrial output in November unexpectedly dropped by 0.1 percent to 8.2 percent from the revised growth rate of 8.3 percent recorded in October, the official data released Thursday showed. A Reuters poll of analysts had predicted 0.7 percent growth rate.

Infosys Technologies Ltd (NYSE:INFY), India's second largest software services firm, reported Friday a better-than-expected net income after tax of $434 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2012 against $431 million for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2012.

A lawyer representing three suspects in the widely reported Delhi Gang-Rape case claimed that his clients were brutally tortured and sexually assaulted by the police during an interrogation following their detention.

Caught off-guard by the employees’ decision to move a court to seek the closure of Kingfisher Airlines, the private Indian air carrier’s Chairman, Vijay Mallya, wrote a letter to them giving the details of the revival plan.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Wednesday were NewLead Holdings Ltd, VOXX International Corporation, iPass Inc, PriceSmart Inc and Arkansas Best Corporation, while the top after-market NASDAQ losers were Nektar Therapeutics Inc, Halozyme Therapeutics Inc, Air Methods Corporation and Multimedia Games Holding Company Inc.

The United States for the first time announcedTuesday that the administration is considering a full withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

Four children, including an infant, were killed, and their mother was badly injured in a house fire in Atlanta area Tuesday night, authorities said.

One of the six accused in the Delhi Gang-rape case has claimed to be a juvenile, and he will be let off with a lenient sentence if his juvenile status is proved, despite the fact that his police charge sheet reportedly says he was the most barbaric among the six accused.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Wednesday were BG Medicine, Kayak Software Corporation, Landec Corporation, Solazyme Inc. and iPass Inc. while the top after-market NASDAQ losers were Electro Scientific Industries Inc, Mellanox Technologies, Rambus Inc and TGC Industries Inc.

India is considering steps like raising the cost of gold imports to rein in the rising current account deficit.

The Delhi gang-rape victim’s family says naming a revised anti-rape law after her would be an “honor” to her.

India’s manufacturing sector expanded sharply to a six-month high in December, according to the HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index