DETROIT - General Motors Corp and the United Auto Workers union made progress in concession talks and bondholders offered proposals to slash GM's debt on Monday, a day before the automaker must detail a new survival plan.
Feb 18 - British venture capital firm 3i Group Plc (III.L) cut its stake in IT consultancy group Morse Plc (MOR.L) to less than 3 percent from about 15 percent, a regulatory filing showed.
LONDON, Feb 17 - Nigeria and Ethiopia topped a new index of African potential investor destinations on Wednesday, with the survey organisers saying the continent offers good potential growth even against the global economic crisis.
BERLIN - Two masked children pretending to be members of Germany's elite military force triggered a major police operation in the German city of Aachen, police said on Monday.
CHICAGO - Fending off calls for his resignation, Roland Burris on Wednesday said he would cooperate with investigations into whether his appointment to a U.S. Senate seat was tainted by dealings with the former Illinois governor accused of trying to sell the seat.
BARCELONA - Copying a few pages from the playbook of Apple Inc's iPhone strategy, which brings many of the powers of the Internet to mobile phones, is no way to beat the computer interloper at its game.
BOSTON - Doctors have identified two genetic mutations that control the growth and development of malignant gliomas, a particularly deadly and difficult-to-treat type of brain tumor.
LOS ANGELES - The nearly complete skeleton of a massive Columbian mammoth who died during the last ice age has been dug out of a construction site near the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown Los Angeles, a remarkable find even in the fossil-rich area, scientists said Wednesday.
NEW YORK, Feb 18 - The asset management sector is in for more consolidation, but deals this year will likely involve complex structures and have a distressed flavor rather than transactions done for strategic reasons, a report predicts.
NEW YORK - More than 90 wrongful death and personal injury claims related to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States have been settled for a total $500 million, a mediator said on Thursday.
THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Wednesday for war crimes in Darfur, a decision that could spark more regional turm
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