OSLO - China has cancelled at least four official visits to and from Norway in apparent anger over last week's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

BANGALORE - Karnataka is set for another trust vote Thursday, which the opposition parties have threatened to boycott while the high court Wednesday ruled that the result would be subject to its judgment in the case relating to the disqualification of 16 rebel legislators by assembly Speaker K.G. Bopaiah.

GANDHINAGAR - The Narendra Modi government's scheme to allot plots to MPs and legislators on concessional rates was Wednesday challenged in the Gujarat High Court which asked the petitioner to file the plea in proper format.

BEIJING - Chinese police have prevented a Norwegian diplomat from meeting Liu Xia, the wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, she said Wednesday.

NEW DELHI - In a major judicial shake-up, 11 judges from six high courts of Allahabad, Punjab and Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Bombay and Orissa were transferred Wednesday.