IBT Staff Reporter

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed by Myanmar's military junta. Security forces, on Saturday afternoon, removed the barricades near her residence in Yangon. Amid the cheers of jubilant supporters in their thousands, a smiling Suu Kyi, dressed in a traditional lilac dress, addressed the crowd waiting anxiously for her release.

Manchester United travels to the Villa Park on Saturday to face Aston Villa in the English Premier League.

Taliban fighters attacked a NATO military base in Eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of Saturday. Eight insurgents, including two with suicide vests on, were killed in a gun battle with the Afghan and International forces. This is the second such attack on NATO bases in the past six months.

Plenty of research - from sources like GE and Deloitte, to name a few - has shown that range anxiety, or the fear of running out of battery charge in the middle of the road, is one of the biggest factors scaring consumers away from electric vehicles (EVs).

United come to the game on the back of a draw against cross-town rivals Manchester City during mid-week. Though it ended their six game winning streak (in all competitions), it was a valuable point claimed at the City of Manchester Stadium. The red devils will look to gain all three points at Villa Park, which is a stadium they generally do well in. They last tasted defeat there in August 1995.

Reliance Infrastructure Limited, a part of Reliance- Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has said its consolidated net profit increased 11 percent to 3.60 billion rupees ($80 million) for the second quarter ended September 30, 2010, as against 3.25 billion rupees in the corresponding quarter of previous year.

During the G20 the city of Seoul went all out to present a face to the world and welcome dignitaries. Afterwards, life returns to normal.

Sony and Microsoft are hoping their new motion sensor controllers help them surpass long-time industry champion Nintendo in the console race this holiday season.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has purchased 390 million rupees of bonds and sold 350 million rupees of bonds for the week ended on November 5, 2010, according to the weekly statistical supplement of the RBI on Friday.

India's foreign exchange reserves were up $2.25 billion to $300.21 billion as on November 5, 2010, from $297.96 billion in the previous week, according to the weekly statistical supplement of the Reserve Bank of India on Friday.

A major question emerging here in Seoul on the final day of the G-20 Summit, as world leaders personally powwow on global dilemmas, is this: Can the U.S. and China play nice?

Rebalancing will also mean moving focus from the financial sector.

U.S. consumer sentiment rose more than expected in November, boosted by stronger holiday sales, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey.

Home foreclosures in the U.S. in October fell by 9 percent primarily because some major banks temporarily froze foreclosure proceedings and delayed sales of foreclosed properties nationwide after being criticized for shoddy paperwork, according to real estate data company RealtyTrac.

Police authorities in North Carolina are apprehensive that Zahra Baker, a 10-year old physically challenged Australian girl who has been missing for over a month, could have become the victim of some foul play after finding new evidence while searching an area called Gunpowder Creek.

The next time you decide to light up a smoke, you may be greeted by an image of a cancer patient or even worse, a corpse, thanks to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to put graphical warning labels on cigarette packs.

Tim McIntosh's ton and his partnerhship with Martin Guptill (85) took New Zealand to a comfortable position at the end of day one in the second test against India in Hyderabad.

Manchester United visit Aston Villa on Saturday hoping to get back to winning ways after drawing against cross-town rivals City during the mid-week. However, they face a tricky tie against the Villains who haven't conceded at home to anyone but Bolton so far.

Nigeria could report Iran to the UN Security Council on illegal arms shipment, if any sanctions were breached. Speaking to reporters in the capital Abuja, Nigerian foreign minister stated that the consignment originated from Iran, a detail also confirmed by the Iranian government. Iran is forbidden from exporting any weapons from its territory. However, Nigeria is yet to notify the UN on the incident.

Leaders at the G20 spent as much time promoting the process itself as the real accomplishments of the summit. Most said that while there was little in the way of concrete rules, there were a number of steps in the right direction.

France and the International Monetary Fund will work together to develop criteria for the establishment of an international monetary mechanism to establish equity among currencies, and will have something tangible to present to the G-20 nations, and the rest of the world, next year, said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a press briefing at the close of the Seoul G-20 Summit.

Apple's music-only networking site, Ping, has partnered with networking site Twitter to help users discover music more easily.

Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega touted the voice developing nations had in the G20 process and getting the Chinese delegation to change its mind. But he was hit with tough questions about the G20 process and whether it made any real difference to the world economy.

Pakistani authorities on Friday accused the Taliban- and Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents for the Thursday's attack on the CID building in Karachi which killed 17 people. More than 140 have been injured in the blast and police believe that more than 1,000kg of explosives were used in the attack, making it the biggest blast ever to hit the country's financial capital.

The economy grew 0.4 percent in the Euroarea and the EU27 in the third quarter, a little lesser than expectations, according to a report by Eurostat.

Nissan Motor Co is recalling 604,500 vehicles in North and South America and Africa markets over fears that a fault could cause the steering column to crack.

Andy Murray had to fight off a brilliant Marin Cilic to book his place in the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters, along with Roger Federer and Andy Roddick.

General Electric Co will buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 for its own fleet and through its Capital Fleet Services business.

Academy awards have always been the pinnacle of one's achievement in the film world and since its inception in 1928 there has been intense speculation about prospective winners. Come December and these opinions escalate. Here is a run down on what the media is saying about the best female lead prospects for the 2011 statuette.