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The London Stock Exchange faced an increasingly bitter battle for control of Canadian peer TMX Group -- and its own destiny -- after rival bidder Maple Group took its higher offer directly to shareholders.

The London Stock Exchange faced a takeover battle on Thursday with the Maple Group over Canada's TMX Group , the outcome of which may well decide whether it becomes takeover target itself.

Sony seems to have become the hackers' favorite target with reports flooding the Internet that Sony Ericsson website in Canada has been hacked and its websites in Thailand and Greece are under seize.

Sony Ericsson's Canadian eShop web site remains down after a hacking attack compromised the personal information of 2,000 users.

Chrysler Group LLC on Tuesday paid back $7.6 billion in U.S. and Canadian government loans from its 2009 federal bailout, a move that allows the U.S. automaker to distance itself from an unpopular bailout and deepen its ties with Italian automaker Fiat SpA.

Justin Bieber, the Canadian teen idol, dominated 6 awards at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 22.

A powerful tornado on Sunday tore through the southwestern Missouri town of Joplin, killing over 20 people and leaving several injured.

The gently sloping beaches of Normandy lend themselves well to invasions. From here, William the Conqueror set out to invade England in 1066 and in World War II they were the landing site for the allied assault on Nazi-occupied France.

Over 80,000 Mennonites live in Northern Mexico and many still speak the medieval German dialect, Plautdietsch

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Opnext, Acorda Therapeutics, Red Robin Gourmet, BioSante Pharmaceuticals, STEC, AEterna Zentaris and Human Genome Sciences. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Popular, Nordson and Immunogen.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Opnext, BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Stratasys, STEC, and Zumiez. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Popular, Abaxis, Nordson, Stamps.com, CEVA, and Immunogen.

Chrysler Group LLC detailed terms of a bond offering and term loan on Thursday that will be used to repay high-cost government loans and put the U.S. automaker on firmer financial ground.

Four Seasons Exec calls the partnership perfect synergy

U.S. automaker Chrysler Group LLC borrowed $6.2 billion to refinance high-cost government loans stemming from its 2009 bankruptcy restructuring, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

U.S. retailer Sears Holdings Corp reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss as sales at its namesake stores plunged both at its home turf and in Canada.

Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.05 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.04 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.07 percent at 4:10 a.m. EDT.

General Motors Co said on Wednesday that it will make 60,000 Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera in 2012, up from its previously announced 45,000 production outlook.

Trade judges on Wednesday partially overturned a ruling that had accused EU states of giving Airbus illegal subsidies, but said the aircraft maker did receive billions of dollars of unfair aid that harmed Boeing.

Staples Inc slashed its full-year forecast and said it would open fewer stores than it had planned after its quarterly results missed Wall Street estimates, sending its shares down nearly 16 percent.

Forest fires have devastated the town of Slave Lake, Alberta, forcing officials to evacuate most of the 10,000 residents. Take a look at the watering down of wildfires at Slave Lake:

Journalist Dorothy Parvaz has been released by the Iranian authorities and is back in Doha, on early Wednesday.