document.write('<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="rssHeadlines"><tr><td class="rssHeaderCell"><p><span class="rssDescription">NPR world news, international art and culture, world business and financial markets, world economy, and global trends in health, science and technology. Subscribe to the World Story of the Day podcast and RSS feed.</span><br></p></td></tr><tr><td class="rssHeadlineCell"><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120712790&ft=1&f=1004" class="rssHeadline">For India&#146;s P.M., A White House Pampering And Feast</a><br><span class="rssDate">Tue Nov 24 07:00:00 EST 2009</span><br><span class="rssTease">The decision to host the Indian prime minister as President Obama&#146;s first state visitor, complete with a formal state dinner on Tuesday night, was designed as a deliberate signal of India&#146;s prominence in Washington. But Indian leaders remain worried that Obama won&#146;t treat India as a true global power in the same way his predecessor did.</span><br></p></td></tr><tr><td class="rssHeadlineCell"><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120738550&ft=1&f=1004" class="rssHeadline">Prime Minister Singh Described As &#146;Concensus Man&#146;</a><br><span class="rssDate">Tue Nov 24 06:00:00 EST 2009</span><br><span class="rssTease">Sanjaya Baru knows India&#146;s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh well. He is the prime minister&#146;s former media adviser, and is now editor-in-chief of India&#146;s leading business newspaper the <em>Business Standard.</em> Baru tells Renee Montagne that he would describe Singh as a "consensus man" because the prime minister learned early that he was leading a very fractious coalition, so he spent a lot of time listening to people who disagreed with him.</span><br></p></td></tr></table>')