MUMBAI (AFP) - The Indian rupee sank to a record low for the fourth successive trading day on Monday, hitting the key level of 55 to the dollar.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka was released from prison on Monday more than two years after he was jailed following his unsuccessful bid to unseat the president in 2010.

OSLO (AFP) - Aung San Suu Kyi will make a speech in Oslo next month to accept her Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1991, as part of her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years, the Nobel Committee said Monday.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - European Union anti-trust chiefs said Monday they had asked Google to come up with "remedies" to satify Brussels concerns the Internet search king has abused its dominant market position.

MOSCOW (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin put his stamp on a new government Monday that kept his most trusted allies in charge of finance while leaving a tested veteran at the foreign ministry helm.