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| Thai Senate to draft crisis "road map"; protesters urge "neutral" PM |
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 By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Six months of political turmoil has created Thailand's biggest ever crisis, the leader of the country's Senate said on Monday, amid calls from anti-government protesters for a new interim prime minister after Yingluck Shinawatra was ousted last week. Yingluck's caretaker government has remained in office since the Constitutional Court ordered her and nine cabinet colleagues to step down over a nepotism case. But the protesters say the entire administration has lost legitimacy and want to replace it with a \"neutral\" interim prime minister who would oversee electoral reforms aimed at keeping Yingluck and her brother, ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, out of power.
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| Air traffic system failure caused by computer memory shortage |
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 By Alwyn Scott and Joseph Menn NEW YORK (Reuters) - A common design problem in the U.S. air traffic control system made it possible for a U-2 spy plane to spark a computer glitch that recently grounded or delayed hundreds of Los Angeles area flights, according to an inside account and security experts. As aircraft flew through the region, the $2.4 billion system made by Lockheed Martin Corp , cycled off and on trying to fix the error, triggered by a lack of altitude information in the U-2's flight plan, according to the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the incident. Lockheed Martin said it conducts \"robust testing\" on all its systems and referred further questions about the En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system to the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA later set the system to require altitudes for every flight plan and added memory to the system, which should prevent such problems in the future, Brown said.
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| Narendra Modi seeks personal triumph in final round of election |
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 By Douglas Busvine and Manoj Kumar VARANASI India (Reuters) - India's general election reaches a climax on Monday as opposition challenger Narendra Modi seeks a personal mandate in Varanasi, the holy city on the river Ganges, to govern by his modernised brand of Hindu nationalism. Modi is the first prime ministerial candidate to stand in the 3,000-year-old city where several religions mingle. Varanasi is an ancient centre of Buddhism but one in six voters is Muslim; A triumph in the city - one of 41 seats in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal which are voting on the final day of India's five-week general election - would crown a gruelling campaign by the 63-year-old chief minister of Gujarat to lead his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) back to power after a decade in opposition.
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| Rebels declare victory in east Ukraine vote on self-rule |
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 By Matt Robinson and Alessandra Prentice DONETSK/SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Moscow rebels declared a resounding victory in a referendum on self-rule for eastern Ukraine, with some saying that meant independence and others eventual union with Russia as fighting flared in a conflict increasingly out of control. Another said the vote simply showed that the East wanted to decide its own fate, whether in Ukraine, on its own, or as part of Russia. \"Eighty-nine percent, that's it,\" the head of the separatist electoral commission in Donetsk, Roman Lyagin, said by telephone when asked for the result of a vote that the pro-Western Ukrainian government in Kiev has condemned as illegal. Sunday's vote went ahead despite a call by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to postpone it - a move that briefly raised hopes for an easing of tension.
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