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Oil prices recovered slightly in London after sharp falls in recent days, owing to industrial powers agreeing to release emergency reserves of crude in the wake of Hurricane ...5.4

European leaders came to China this week saying they wanted to lift an arms embargo and settle a textile trade dispute.4

NEW YORK - In two weeks, The New York Times will finally start publishing a comic strip - but not the three-panel kind.3.1

Firefighters Stuck in Ga. Awaiting Orders Hard Lessons Await Displaced Children Use of the Word 'Refugee' Stirs Debate New Orleans Floodwaters Begin to Drop Americans Race ...2.7

HAMBURG Volkswagen said Tuesday that it could cut up to 14,000 jobs at its European plants over the next three years but warned that the potential layoffs were one of ...2.7

Bond prices declined Tuesday as encouraging signs on the economic and energy fronts gave investors more reason to think the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates this ...2.7

McData boosted second-quarter income by more than two-thirds, but charges sharply widened the company's loss.2.7

New and used aircraft listed for sale by private individuals and dealers. Search a huge selection of piston single and twin, turboprop, corporate jets and helicopters.2.9

Unipol Assicurazioni SpA said Tuesday it had received the necessary antitrust regulator authorization for its $6.12 billion bid to take over Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SpA.3.1

Aircraft and industrial titan Textron is evaluating the available options for its fastening systems business and may sell all or most of the operation.2.7

The British government has granted a record number of licences for North Sea oil and gas exploration this year, Minister for Energy Malcolm Wicks said.2.9

United Airlines plans to file documents tomorrow that formally begin its exit from bankruptcy protection.2.7

Ahead of the second-annual Advertising Week, designed to once again rally and inform the Madison Avenue troops in the Big Apple with panels, parties and more, the ...2

A strike by Boeing Co. machinists is unlikely to put a dent in the U.S. planemaker's recent order lead over European archrival Airbus if the walkout is resolved by year-end, ...2.7

He must be great at the hokey pokey. It's clear this job seeker would have benefited from a proofreader; however, he also made a mistake common among those new to the ...2.7

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Morgan Stanley Inc. has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a complaint brought by the state Department of Justice regarding improper trading in a Delaware couple's brokerage ...3.2

ResCare has bought Phoenix-based Alternative Behavioral Counseling Services, which serves at-risk youth in the state.3.1

Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways is raising fuel surcharges by 6 a ticket to compensate for rising oil prices.4

The Likud members of the Knesset Finance Committee are pressuring acting Finance Minister Ehud Olmert to give in to the banks' demands and raise the rate of fees banks can ...2.7

Internet Capital Group Inc. on Tuesday said its partner company, LinkShare Corp., has agreed to be bought by Japan's Rakuten Inc.2.7

Hong Kong is to restart a plan to float a huge slice of public real estate on the stock exchange by the end of 2005.2.9

An affiliate of Hanwha Group, Korea's fifth-largest conglomerate, is looking to get into the management of amusement parks overseas.2.7

Kilroot Power Station today rolled out plans to use renewable fuel in a move which it says would help the environment and produce savings for electricity customers.2.7

Lars Erik Petersson, former chief executive of Sweden's largest insurer, Skandia, was charged with fraud Tuesday for allegedly handing out large bonuses to other executives ...2.7

The fee levied on retailers to recover the costs of the card system was too high, the watchdog says.2.9

Mumbai: Gas Authority of India Ltd, or Gail, has entered into a memorandum of understanding, or MoU, with Shaanxi Huashan Chemical Industry Group for setting up a coal ...2.7

Axa SA, France's biggest insurance company, posted a 31 percent rise in first-half net profit Tuesday, buoyed by a strong performance from its life insurance and savings ...4.2

Last month, they bid at 350 pence a share, valuing Ottakar's at 78m. A day before the original management buyout offer, HMV Group said it was in talks to buy Ottakar's, ...2.9

John Lewis Partnership today defended itself after a new onslaught from Lisburn Chamber of Commerce over its Sprucefield development.2.7

MILAN Fiat said Tuesday that it would sign an industrial partnership by the end of the year with another carmaker as part of the Italian company's long march toward ...4

Shares in Pace Micro Technology, which manufactures digital TV set-top boxes, have fallen 10% after it warned of delays in some product shipments.2.9

Flight attendants for Italy's state-controlled airline Alitalia walked off the job Tuesday at the start of a 48-hour strike, with travelers facing delays and cancellations.3.1

Tony Zhang, 43, founder and CEO of AskMeFinance, a Boston-based startup that provides online market intelligence about small businesses to financial institutions.2.7

The slowdown in the UK housing market has hit the fortunes of two of the country's leading housebuilders, George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow.2.9

Four decades after Andy Warhol made Campbell's Soup cans chic, San Francisco-based Levi Strauss is betting that he can help boost business by getting shoppers to fork over ...2.7

German engineering group Siemens has won a contract worth $560 million to help expand the U.S. Postal Service's mail redirection system over the next 28 months, it said in a ...2.7

Indonesia's central bank has sharply raised its key interest rate for the second time in a week in an effort to halt a slide in the rupiah's value.2.9