TOKYO (Reuters) – Former top financial bureaucrat Toshiro Muto is the leading cand idate to become Japan's next central bank governor, suggesting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hopes for a more radical policymaker are fading. Abe will pick a nominee as early as this week, sources close to the process told Reuters. The prime minister said he would make an announcement "soon" on a nominee, who would need to be confirmed by both houses of parliament. Abe led his party back to power in December with promises of aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus to lift an economy dogged for years by deflation. … Carlsberg profit lags as Russia stalls
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish brewer Carlsberg reported a weaker-than-expected quarterly profit after sales stalled in its key Russia market and fell in western Europe. The world's fourth biggest brewery scrapped its long-term margin forecasts due in part to mar ket uncertainty, although it forecast operating earnings in 2013 to rise slightly to around 10 billion Danish crowns ($1.79 billion) from 9.8 billion a year earlier. The group's operating profit (before special items) in the fourth quarter rose to 2.15 billion Danish crowns ($384.79 million), slightly lagging an average 2. … Social media gives Indonesian women new voice
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A judge being interviewed for a Supreme Court job jokes that women might enjoy rape. A local official takes a 17-year-old second wife, then quickly divorces her by text message. Britain's Cameron pushes Mumbai-Bangalore development corridor
MUMBAI (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday he wanted his country's companies to help India develop new cities and districts along a 1,000 km (60 0 mile) corridor between Mumbai and Bangalore, generating investment projects worth up to $25 billion. Kicking off a three-day visit to India with the largest trade delegation taken abroad by a British prime minister, Cameron said he wanted British firms to work with the Indian and British governments to develop nine districts to link Mumbai, India's financial capital, with Bangalore, its tech hub. … 
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