ABC News plans for Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson to fill in on 'World News Tonight' while Bob Woodruff recovers from injuries suffered in Iraq.

Civil and criminal complaints are expected to be announced against former insurance executives for financial improprieties.

Ira L. Rennert's oceanfront estate may be seized to make sure he delivers on pensions promised to a group of steelworkers in Ohio.

Just as Internet companies collect more information, prosecutors and civil lawyers are more readily using that information.

BNP Paribas moves closer to buying Italian bank BNL after winning support from the board and key shareholders.

The alleged violations at A.I.G. included improper accounting, bid-rigging and skipped payments to state workers' compensation funds.

Advertising promises safe slumber with minimal side effects, but some experts believe the drugs are being overprescribed.

Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco threatened to block oil and gas leases worth hundreds of millions unless the state received more federal money for hurricane relief.

Some large companies back the bill, but smaller ones say the formula for determining how much each company will have to contribute may drive them into bankruptcy.

Air China is to apply for a stock market listing in Shanghai, using the proceeds to buy 45 new aircraft.

Reuters - Pilots at Northwest Airlines will start voting on Monday on whether to allow their union leaders to call a strike if the bankrupt carrier throws out their contract, the labor group said on Friday.

BAA's Spanish suitor Grupo Ferrovial must pay at least £9.5bn ($16.57bn) if it wants a deal, a press report says.

Merrill Lynch is nearing a deal to sell its asset management division to BlackRock in exchange for a large stake in the company.

The I.R.S. is making an offer to firms that made and sold questionable tax shelters: come forward, pay penalties and turn over information, and you may avoid prosecution.

Michael Ovitz is expected to testify before a grand jury about his dealings with Anthony Pellicano, a private detective accused of wiretapping.

A new study suggests that more research work at corporations will be sent to fast-growing economies with strong education systems, like China and India.

China plans to buy a sophisticated engine plant in Brazil, take it apart, ship it to China, and then put it back together again.

Two independent directors will be added and the company will buy back $20 billion in shares and reduce costs by $1 billion.

Nike files a patent infringement suit against Adidas, accusing its rival of copying its trainer technology.

Sony's PlayStation 3 console may miss its spring launch if industry specifications for some of its technology are not finalised.

The discovery of oil on a Mennonite farm in Belize is proving that wildcatting is alive and well.

A witness testified that Kenneth L. Lay took an active role in preparing misleading and often conflicting statements about Enron's financial conditions.

A WorldCom shareholder who lost a $900 million securities arbitration against Citigroup sued to overturn the ruling.

When Congress authorized the Medicare drug benefit, it also agreed to start subsidizing the drug component of employers' retiree health plans.

The S.E.C. subpoena sought information about articles that have contributed to stock declines at several companies.

Dubai Ports World will 'voluntarily' ask the Bush administration to pursue the deeper investigation Congress has been demanding.

Reuters - U.S. economic growth will rebound in the first quarter of 2006, prompting two more rate increases from the Federal Reserve, before slowing in the second half of the year, according to a survey of economists released on Monday.

A series of miscalculations by Guidant put the company on the defensive as defects in its heart devices came under scrutiny.