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In a survey of 500 financial service workers in the UK and U.S., a quarter said they would need to engage in illegal conduct to be successful, while 16 percent said they would commit a crime - insider trading - if they could get away with it.

Ex-Barclays boss Bob Diamond, who will still receive his salary and benefits worth in excess of £2 million, had given up the bonus payment voluntarily according to Barclays executive chairman Marcus Agius.

With the government failing to step in to resolve the dispute -- as it has done three times since 2007 -- Statoil, BP and Eni are preparing to instigate a full closure of output at midnight on Monday, cutting off more than 2 million barrels of oil, natural gas liquids and condensate per day.

The rise comes ahead of a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Monday, where the delegates are expected to announce the details of the Spanish bank bailout.

The resignation came as Barclays was preparing to demand American-born Diamond, 60, hand back almost £20 million ($31 million) in bonuses

The refineries are aimed at replacing Nigeria's decaying refining infrastructure, which has turned the country into a net importer.

Initial public and governmental response garnered unified relief that someone has taken responsibility for the spate of banking scandals and damaged relations between its customers.

So just who is Mr Agius, and how did he get to the very top of Britain's banking tree?

Heinz Fromm resigned as information emerged that officers from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution had shredded key documents relating to the murders of at least 10 people, mostly Turkish immigrants, by the group.

Worsening social conditions could cause another flare-up in violence, the officers said.

The first test-tube, or in vitro fertilization (IVF), baby was Louise Brown, who was born in the UK in 1978.

China, which according to various estimates produces between 90 to 98 percent of the world's rare earth supplies, warned that a decline in its rare earth resources was accelerating.

The evolving scandal, according to King, illustrated the need to separate the retail from invest banking.

Aggressively priced at $199 for the 8GB model and $249 for the 16 GB model, the Nexus 7 is smaller than an iPad at 7 inches, but it's still packed with impressive innards, including a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, a 1.2-megapixel camera, 1GB of RAM, a 4,325mAh battery and NFC built in. The Nexus will start shipping next month with Google's updated Jelly Bean 4.1 OS.

The Bank of Cyprus bailout raises the island's original ?1.8 billion ($2.2 billion) request -- agreed on Monday to support the country's second largest lender Popular Bank -- to ?2.3 billion ($2.9 billion).

Spanish 10-year government bonds have been edging toward an unsustainable 7 percent yield for weeks now, with current yields above 6.8 percent.

Other threats outlined in Evans' inaugural Lord Mayor's Annual Defence and Security Lecture in London on Monday night included Al Qaeda infiltration of Arab Spring countries and potential extremists motivated by the possible collapse of the euro zone.

The controversial move comes after Orbitz found that Mac users on average spent 30 percent more than Windows users on hotels and decided, in a trial, to offer them more expensive options, according to a published report.

At stake, according to analysts, is nothing less than the future of the euro and possibly of the European Union itself, with markets and global leaders demanding tangible solutions to Europe's rapidly degenerating debt crisis.

Spain and Greece, two of the nations worst hit by the European debt crisis, made the largest overseas development aid (ODA) cuts in 2010/11, according to the report.

Chief Executive Robert Greifeld told a conference of directors at Stanford University's Law School that the exchange had tested its computer systems before the May 18 IPO, but failed to take into account the volume of canceled orders in the run-up to the stock debut, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Miliband not only took a swipe at his predecessors, but at the same time kicked one of the touchiest of subjects for any Labour supporter.

According to the report, General Mowaffak Joumaa has been denied the visa due to his links to President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Larry Ellison, the CEO of software giant Oracle, is said to have paid between $500 million and $600 million for the 141 square mile Pineapple island.

The announcement has received a warm welcome from international leaders, with many praising European efforts to get to the root cause of the debt crisis.

France's BFM-TV said the man had asked to speak to the same elite police unit that shot Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah, who died in a hail of bullets just 100 yards from the scene of today's siege.

On the second and final day of negotiations in Moscow, diplomats said there was still no agreement between six world powers -- U.S., Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain -- and Iran over Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons program.

The statement, which is expected to be released later today, will undermine the efforts of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has become increasingly isolated among her peers over her insistence on an austerity-led European recovery program.

With Sunday's Greek election result doing little to ease long-term fears that the country still faces a messy exit from the euro, the G-20 delegates are left speculating how to tackle a spiraling crisis with no clear end in sight.