From the studio, he has covered the Haiti earthquake, the Mumbai terror attacks, the disputed Iranian election and the death of Michael Jackson.

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India imposes the death penalty only in the "rarest of rare cases" - in November, it hanged the only surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, the country's first execution in eight years.

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Twitter has been in the ascendancy through its celebrity dabblers and since high profile involvement in news stories such as the Mumbai terror attacks, where aspects of its use as a journalism tool were later called in to question.

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The England and Wales Cricket Board has said players will not be forced to go following the terror attacks in Mumbai.

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Later on Monday, Mr Cameron visited a memorial to the 16 Indian police officers killed during the terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008.

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Regarding the threat of terrorism in South Asia, Gates called on the United States to strengthen its partnership with Pakistan and help the nation assess involvement in last week's terror attacks in Mumbai.

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"Slumdog, " which is set in Mumbai, has also assumed a particularly poignant resonance in light of the recent terror attacks that left 174 people dead.

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