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Union members representing British Airways cabin crews announced Friday they will hold two separate strikes this month in a dispute over working conditions.

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.

Thousands of people march through Athens as part of a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest against austerity measures by the government.

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's banking regulator has issued guidelines linking bonus pay of bank executives and employees to performance, according to state media.

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.

The recession has prompted many employers to take on temporary staff where they would have once hired permanent workers, this is prevalent at senior level, where executives may be drafted in to turn around the fortunes of an ailing company.

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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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.

Daihatsu Motor Company announced Thursday that it was recalling more than 274,000 vehicles for problems with their suspension systems.

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.

Royal Dutch Shell has stopped selling gasoline to Iran, the company confirmed Wednesday, adding to a list of oil giants that have stopped sales after a threat of future U.S. sanctions.

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has won his libel case against a Russian broadcaster in London, his spokeswoman told CNN on Wednesday.

Bahrain's finance minister said adherence to strict Islamic rules helped his country escape the worst of the global recession.

Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that's ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday.

Brazil will have its second-best harvest in the nation's history this year, the government said.

Mexico asked the United States to move forward with creating a proposal to end a ban on cross-border trucking in violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Global financial reform topped the agenda, as U.S. President Barack Obama huddled with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, whose country is at the center of Europe's debt crisis.

The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, a police spokesman said.