Increasingly, investors want their hometown dailies free of absentee corporate owners.

WTO boss Pascal Lamy says hopes for a new deal are in crisis after the latest global trade talks end in failure.

Reuters - A new French executive team starts work at Airbus parent group EADS on Monday after the European aerospace group forced out two top executives blamed for a two-week crisis over aircraft production blunders.

An initial public offering of DLF Universal, India's largest builder, would make it worth more than General Motors.

Shares in Bank of China, the nation's number two lender, soar 30% as they debut on the Shanghai stock market.

Microsoft's digital device would be equipped with wireless Internet capability that would allow users to download music without being connected to a PC.

Several marketers are trying to take advantage of surging demand for kosher foods among all shoppers.

Automatic Data Processing said it gave out lists of shareholders in various companies to an 'unauthorized party.'

Opposition leaders criticise the decision not to allow a UK trial for three bankers wanted in the US.

Reuters - U.S. real estate investment trust Heritage Property Investment Trust, Inc. said on Sunday it had agreed to be bought by Australia's Centro Properties Group for around $1.7 billion.

Several international carriers recently began sharing nutritional information for their menu items and offering lighter alternatives.

Some European biotechnology companies consider their science second to none, while conceding the superiority of American financial markets.

In a rare display of limited permissiveness, Wal-Mart is letting thieves off the hook in cases involving $25 or less.

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time in six years in an important test of its ability to manage the economy.

The American, French and Japanese companies said the review would take approximately 90 days.

Chile's President Bachelet brings in three new ministers, including a new face to run the country's economy.

Companies are paying executives at some of America’s leading nonprofit hospitals to talk privately with providers of hospital supplies and services.

U.S. prosecutors said they were pressing charges against the chief executive of BetOnSports, a prominent Internet gambling company.

Nina Jacobson, who has been head of live-action production at Walt Disney Studios, will leave immediately.

Reuters - The president of Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T) said on Thursday he is not studying ways in which Japan's top automaker could join a potential three-way alliance between Nissan Motor Co. (7201.T), Renault and General Motors Corp. .

The company is in the midst of product transition as sales of Xbox video game consoles are increasing rapidly, while new versions of Windows and Office are still a year off.

It’s time to get over the fear of buying art, even if you don’t know how yet.

Reuters - The United Steelworkers and Michelin North America agreed on Saturday to extend negotiations by 24 hours over a new contract for 4,000 hourly workers at three U.S. tire plants that expires at midnight.

The hospital operator is close to a deal to sell itself to a consortium of investors in a package worth $31.6 billion.

For the first time, Washington has succeeded in temporarily shutting down a publicly owned gambling site, and its effort has operators’ share prices plummeting.

Previously, Pfizer had said it would sell the new heart treatment only in combination with Lipitor.

This month, GlaxoSmithKline resumed sales of its diabetes drug Avandia after resolving quality control problems at a plant in Puerto Rico.

The Justice Department is investigating whether the deal thwarted a lower-priced competitor for Plavix.

I had no idea what thrills bird-watching could provide until I saw the president of New York City Audubon perform a miracle in Central Park.

Pakistan announces a surprise interest rate rise as high oil and commodity prices feed inflationary pressures.

Millions of men are turning down jobs they think beneath them or cannot find work for which they are qualified.