3. Cricket diplomacy India rejoiced* last Wednesday after defeating Pakistan in the cricket World Cup, a sporting event charged with geopolitics*. The prime ministers of the nuclear-armed neighbors had sought to improve relations by sitting together in the grandstands. With the two rival cricket teams battling it out at a stadium in the northern Indian city of Mohali, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani chose the game’s venue to discuss ways to cement* their nations’ diplomatic dialogue. 4. Japan nuclear plant Workers were pumping more than 3 million gallons of contaminated* water from Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear power complex into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, freeing storage space for even more highly radioactive* water that has hampered* efforts to stabilize the plant’s reactors. | 