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  • BA cabin crew to strike this month
    Union members representing British Airways cabin crews announced Friday they will hold two separate strikes this month in a dispute over working conditions.
  • Thousands protest in Greek capital
    Thousands of people march through Athens as part of a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest against austerity measures by the government.
  • Outcry over China migrant curbs
    It's break time at the Seven Colors Elementary School, a privately-run school just an hour's drive from central Beijing. Scores of warmly dressed Chinese pupils are enjoying sunshine. Some play table tennis or skip rope. Others run around the flag pole, seemingly oblivious to the problem their parents face.
  • China sets guidelines on bank bonuses
    China's banking regulator has issued guidelines linking bonus pay of bank executives and employees to performance, according to state media.
  • Bahrain seeks to preserve ancient pearling traditions
    Once upon a time, harvesting pearls was a way of life for the people of Bahrain, a glistening archipelago of 33 islands off the coast of Saudi Arabia.
  • Ex-Toyota lawyer: Company hid info
    When former in-house defense attorney Dimitrios Biller resigned from his top post at Toyota, he walked out with something potentially more valuable than his nearly $4 million severance package.
  • Man Utd bidders appoint top bank
    The group poised to launch a takeover bid for English Premier League side Manchester United has signaled its intent by appointing a major international bank to act as its financial adviser.
  • Daihatsu recalls 274,000 vehicles
    Daihatsu Motor Company announced Thursday that it was recalling more than 274,000 vehicles for problems with their suspension systems.
  • Trump's golf course plan on tee
    Despite the financial downturn affecting property prices and construction projects around the world, bullish American billionaire Donald Trump remains committed to building what he has dubbed the "world's greatest golf course" in Scotland after unveiling designs for the new complex.
  • Slim edges Gates as world's richest
    Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world's richest people, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' name was not first.

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  • Oil rises on economic optimism
    Oil prices rose Friday after the government's retail sales report came in stronger than expected, and as a weaker dollar helped boost optimism for stronger demand.
  • Hedge funds: They're back!
    After two incredibly turbulent years defined by high-profile blow-ups and staggering losses, the hedge fund industry appears to be expanding once again.
  • Stocks mixed on consumer sentiment
    Stocks gave up an early advance Friday as investors weighed an unexpected drop in a key consumer confidence index against a surprisingly strong retail sales report.
  • Apple's online store braces for iPad preorders
    Apple's online store was temporarily closed Friday morning as the company got ready to start taking preorders for its highly anticipated iPad tablet computer.
  • Retail sales beat expectations
    Retail sales rose in February, the government said Friday, surprising economists who expected a decline.
  • Dollar dips ahead of economic reports
    The dollar eased Friday ahead of economic reports expected to show modest improvements in retail sales and consumer confidence.
  • Stocks set for gains
    U.S. stocks were poised to extend gains Friday after a government report showed surprising strength in retail sales for February.
  • The three-figure kitchen makeover
    Living with an undersize, outdated kitchen? If so, a sledgehammer may feel like the only solution. But these days you're probably not up for spending the $50,000 or more -- maybe much more -- it would cost to demolish the space and build a new state-of-the-art room from scratch.
  • Give money to a jobless friend?
    Dear Annie: I have a very close friend who's been out of work for almost a year now. He was my college roommate: I've known him for almost 20 years and, for about half that time, we worked at the same company. Then he got laid off. Last week one of my kids told me that my friend's youngest son missed out on a ski trip with the rest of his class because of the expense, even though the cost was minimal (to those of us with jobs).
  • Building the world's longest ethanol pipeline
    John D. Rockefeller figured out a long time ago that the most efficient way to transport liquid fuels long distances wasn't on wheels but in pipelines. Today POET, the privately held Sioux Falls, S.D., company that is the country's largest producer of ethanol, and Tulsa pipeline-builder Magellan Midstream Partners are poised to make the same leap.
  • What killed Lehman
    Failings by Lehman Brothers executives and its auditor led to the bank collapse that unleashed the worst of the financial crisis, according to a report by court-appointed investigator.
  • Exxon's growing reliance on expensive oil
    Exxon Mobil outlined plans Thursday that rely heavily on oil from tough to reach places, extracting it from the depths of the ocean, the frozen Arctic and the tar sands in Canada's frozen tundra.
  • Salvaged GM dealers in limbo
    The 661 axed auto dealers General Motors is offering to reinstate aren't ready to pop the champagne just yet. They're still waiting to find out about the terms they'll have to meet to regain their franchises.
  • Finally! Good news from credit card industry
    Recently card holders have seen interest rates increase, new and higher fees. and fewer reward programs.
  • Some nurses paid more than family doctors
    Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians' salaries.
  • GMAC: The scariest zombie
    Now that Citigroup and AIG are rolling in the bucks, GMAC is looking like the most egregious zombie bank of them all.
  • Citi's Pandit aims for $20 billion in profits
    Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit offered a bold outlook for his troubled firm Thursday, saying he hoped his company would soon be able to deliver profits of approximately $20 billion.
  • It's a small (cap) world after all
    Want to know if all this talk of an economic recovery is for real? Don't think big. Think small.
  • Households recovering from economic freefall
    The net worth of American households increased slightly during the final three months of 2009, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.
  • Fast food chains face tomato famine
    Fast food joints are scrambling to find alternate sources for one of America's favorite sandwich toppings after a winter freeze took a huge bite out of Florida's tomato harvest.