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| Modi faces riots lawsuit as he kicks off splashy U.S. visit |
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 By Andrew MacAskill and David Ingram NEW DELHI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's high-profile trip to the United States will not be affected by a U.S. civil lawsuit over anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, India and the United States said on Friday. Modi and the Indian government could seek to have the suit dismissed and it could take a judge months to decide, but its timing - the lawsuit was filed on Thursday as Modi flew to the United States - could not be more awkward. ...
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| U.S. says does not think Modi suit will distract from visit |
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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. civil court case brought against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not distract from his visit to the United States, a senior administration official said on Friday, adding that sitting heads of government enjoy immunity from U.S. legal suits. "I don't think there is any fear of the two governments being distracted," the U.S. official told a conference call with journalists on Modi's visit to the United States starting on Friday. ...
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| UK talking to six banks about settling FX probe-sources |
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 By Jamie McGeever and Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial regulator has intensified talks with six major banks over allegations of collusion and manipulation in the foreign exchange market, setting the stage for a group settlement that could cost them close to 2 billion pounds($3.26 billion). Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the lenders are keen to draw a line under a scandal that has cast London, the world's foreign exchange trading hub, in a negative light, ensnared the Bank of England and weighed on banks' share prices. ...
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| Taliban storm Afghan district southwest of capital, 100 killed |
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| By Mustafa Andalib GHAZNI Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a strategic district in an Afghan province southwest of the capital and are on the verge of capturing it after killing dozens of people and beheading some in days of fighting, officials said on Friday. The Ghazni provincial government has lost contact with police in the province's western district of Ajrestan, said Asadullah Safi, deputy police chief of the area. An army unit reported that fighting was raging late on Friday afternoon, another provincial official said. ... |
| Ex-BBC DJ Travis given suspended jail term for sex attack |
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| LONDON (Reuters) - Dave Lee Travis, one of Britain's best-known radio DJs in the 1970s and 1980s whose shows once delighted Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, escaped jail on Friday despite being convicted of a "nasty" indecent assault on a television researcher. Travis, a former BBC Radio 1 DJ, was the latest ageing British celebrity to be convicted of sex crimes following police investigations launched in the wake of revelations that the late Jimmy Savile, one of the BBC's top TV presenters, had sexually abused hundreds of victims over decades. ... |
| British parliament set to approve air strikes against IS in Iraq |
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 By Andrew Osborn and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron urged lawmakers on Friday to vote in favour of Britain joining U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq, hours ahead of a crunch parliamentary vote he is expected to win. Approval would mean Britain embarking on its first military campaign since it launched air strikes in 2011 against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya, seeing it join a coalition that includes the United States, France and Middle Eastern allies. ...
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