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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said it has agreed to acquire additives maker Lubrizol for $135 a share in cash, or $9 billion, making it one of the largest acquisitions in its history. Eli Lilly and Co. announced that it has made an irrevocable, unconditional offer to acquire the animal health business of Belgium-based Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, a Johnson & Johnson Co.

The earthquake disaster in Japan looks set to dominate a Group of Eight foreign ministers meeting this week in Paris as members discuss ways to coordinate help for the only Asian country in the group.

Communiqué of European Council on the crisis in Libya, March 11, 2011, Brussels

The trading pattern of the prices of stocks and crude oil looks worryingly like it did just before the last recession.

Gold-buying prices held at two-week lows vs. the Dollar in London on Friday, as the US currency jumped and world stock markets sank after a powerful tsunami hits the Japanese coast 190 miles north-east of Tokyo.

Oil slid by more than $3 on Friday, with U.S. crude falling below $100, after an earthquake rocked Japan, creating a 10-meter tsunami and shutting down dozens of plants in the world's third-largest oil consumer.

Brent crude futures fell below $113 on Friday as a massive earthquake rocked Japan, creating a 10-meter tsunami and shutting down dozens of plants in the world's third-largest oil consumer.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she plans to meet with Libyan rebel leaders in the U.S. and when she travels next week to France, Tunisia and Egypt.

Oil recouped most of its deep losses in late trade on Thursday after reports of police firing on protesters in Saudi Arabia revived fears of further unrest in the world's top exporter.

The government of Bangladesh said it is increasing efforts to help rescue thousands of its citizens who remain trapped in Libya.

International journalists continue to be targeted in the trouble-torn Middle East countries with the most extreme case coming from Libya, where BBC journalists had the first hand experience of Muammar Gaddafi regime's harassment of scribes.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged lawmakers on Wednesday to approve capital increases for global lending institutions and warned that failure to do so could harm U.S. influence abroad.

The Egyptian Army has cleared protesters out of Tahrir Square in Cairo after having arrested 100 men carrying knives and other weapons who were planning to attack anti-government demonstrators.

Libyan officials have arrived in Brussels, Belgium for talks with European Union delegates, just before the EU foreign minister meet to discuss the crisis in Libya, according to Al Jazeera.

China should increase its gold reserves appropriately, and must take every chance to buy, especially when Gold Prices fall, said Li Yining, a senior economist at Peking University and an advisor to the national parliament's Political Consultative Committee, quoted today by Beijing's official Xinhua News Agency.

A Libyan airplane carrying a senior representative of Moammar Gaddafi’s government has apparently landed in Cairo. The Libyan official on the aircraft is reportedly set for talks with Amr Moussa, chief of the Arab league.

A post-revolution stir is burning through Egyptian capital Cairo as feminists were sexually assaulted, and Muslims-Christians clashed on Tuesday, after anti-Mubarak protesters face fury of armed men on Sunday.

A Greek official has told the Associated Press that a private Libyan jet has crossed through Greek-monitored airspace from Libya to Egypt.

Even as calls for the intervention of the U.S. and the western forces in the Libyan crisis gained momentum, besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said there is a foreign plot to colonize his country.

If you think Charlie Sheen has been winning media attention these past few weeks, you'd be right.

Amidst the growing pains of a revolution that will hopefully one lead to democracy, a scar from the past reared its ugly head in Egypt when a clash between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Cairo led to the death of one Copt.