AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE) Indonesian stockmarket FeedREUTERS – The Commonwealth Games, inspired by Englishman John Astley Cooper, started life as the British Empire Games in 1930. They were partly an attempt to boost the prestige of the British Empire, partly British resentment at U.S. domination of the Olympic Games.
LONDON (Reuters) – Commonwealth political, trade and cultural links were at their strongest in the 1950s and the prestige of the multi-sports event which started the decade as the Empire Games had never been higher.
CHARSADDA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Farmer Mohammad Ayaz and his family took refuge on nearby treetops and stayed there for three days when floods ripped through their village.
BANGALORE (Reuters) – The manufacturing sector continued to expand although at a considerably slower pace than in preceding months, predominantly weighed down by a fall in new orders and output.
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