JUN
18
2010

Danone targets dairy growth with Russia deal

Danone (DANO.PA) and Unimilk (KUNMI.RTS) plan to merge their fresh dairy businesses in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus as the French food group seeks to expand its core division in growth markets.

JUN
17
2010

Top bankers huddle on regulation talks

Leading bank executives held lengthy discussions behind closed doors at the World Economic Forum on Thursday to try to prepare their negotiating stance for talks with government officials, amid rising political pressure for beefed-up financial regulation.

JUN
17
2010

Global recovery a global responsibility

Advanced and emerging economies have a shared responsibility for narrowing imbalances in global growth that could threaten the world’s economic rebound, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney says.

JUN
17
2010

BP CEO Tony Hayward, in the hot seat, to testify before Congress

BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward heads to Congress on Thursday, where he will personally apologize in the hope of easing lawmakers’ anger over the massive oil leak that is pouring millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

JUN
17
2010

General Motors withdraws request for European aid for Opel

General Motors has withdrawn a request for a handful of European countries to give it financial aid to help restructure its European subsidiary Opel. GM also said that no further layoffs at Opel were on the cards.

JUN
17
2010

Santander has no liquidity problems

Spanish banking giant Banco Santander SA (STD: 11, 0, 0%) has no liquidity problems, Vice Chairman Matias Rodriguez Inciarte said Thursday.

JUN
17
2010

Protecting the rain forest in Brazil

The Amazonian rainforest, known as the "world´s lung," is hurtling towards destruction. Soya farms, infrastructure projects and new settlements are encroaching on the forest. Almost half of Brazil´s greenhouse gases can be traced back to deforestation.

JUN
17
2010

Google shadow over new media groups

Google is developing technology that could position it to compete with a new breed of digital media companies that are generating story ideas for the internet by mining online search data for under-covered topics.

JUN
16
2010

Crystallex signs agreement to develop gold deposit in Venezuela

Crystallex International Corp. says it is back in the picture in Venezuela.

JUN
16
2010

Why Brazil stands out

Brazil is on fire these days, and it’s not just on the soccer pitch.

JUN
16
2010

Teens take the lead in new campaign against violence

Shanikwa Bush, 18, said she has seen friends killed and incarcerated. She has watched her eight younger siblings grow up in neighborhoods plagued by gangs and guns.

JUN
16
2010

Drink-driving laws should be tougher, says report

A government-commissioned report has called for Britain´s drink-driving laws to be toughened to a level that would put some people over the limit after one drink.

JUN
16
2010

Judges give thumbs down to crack, pot, porn mandatory minimums

Mandatory minimum sentences are too high, restitution for crime victims should be available in all cases, and judge-specific data on sentencing should not be reported, according to a survey of more than 600 federal trial judges.

JUN
16
2010

France raises retirement age

Move lifts retirement age to 62 from 60 as government looks to balance pension accounts by 2018

JUN
16
2010

President Barack Obama and BP chiefs to discuss spill

US President Barack Obama is due to meet BP executives after vowing to make the oil company pay for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

JUN
15
2010

Airline peanuts face ban in snack attack

Federal regulators are considering a snack attack on America´s airlines that would restrict or even completely ban serving peanuts on commercial flights.

JUN
15
2010

Australia announces Iran sanctions

Australia will take out its own sanctions against Iran as it seeks to help curb the regime´s nuclear program.

JUN
15
2010

Supreme Court delivers rare victory to death penalty defendants

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sympathized with a Florida death row inmate whose lawyer missed a deadline for his habeas appeal and failed to communicate with him for years despite numerous written pleas for help.

JUN
15
2010

Nestle takes legal action on Sara Lee coffee capsules

Nestle SA, the world’s biggest foodmaker, began legal action against Sara Lee Corp. in France for alleged patent infringement on its Nespresso coffee system.

JUN
15
2010

High Court lets government take fee awards for clients´ debts

Attorney fee awards under a major federal fee-shifting statute are paid to the client, not to the attorney, and can be offset to pay a client´s debt to the federal government, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday.

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