Tokyo stocks open higher

TOKYO - JAPANESE share prices opened higher Monday, with the benchmark Nikkei-225 index rising 88.11 points, or 1.07 per cent, to 8,318.26 in the first minutes of trading. -- AFP
The selling of Obama's image
Businesses vie to make sure the pre-inaugural buck stops with them Frank Battle and fiancee Nancy Crawford are shown with some of the Obama souvenirs they hope to sell at Massachusetts Avenue and F Street.
Pak wants ?positive reply? from India on countering terrorism
Pak Yusuf Raza Gilani said that the ?onus was equally on India to respond to Islamabad?s proposals for countering terrorism. New Delhi had rejected Islamabad?s suggestion for a joint investigation into the Mumbai attack.