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The Canadian men restored order in their Olympic ice hockey house and headed to the semi-finals after a 7-3 rout of Russia on Wednesday, a day of redemption and medal manna from heaven for the host nation.

Coca-Cola Co plans to buy the North American operations of its largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, in a substantially cashless deal.

The Greek crisis has likely delayed euro adoption for the biggest emerging European economies by at least a year, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday.

Slovakia paid Norway back for a nasty first-period hit by taking a 4-3 victory on Tuesday that puts them into the quarter-finals of the Olympic ice hockey tournament.

Canada stormed into the Olympic men's ice hockey quarter-finals on Tuesday while Switzerland and the Czech Republic were pushed to the limit and Slovakia battled to a bloody victory over Norway.

From the Kremlin to Ottawa's Parliament Hill a Canada-Russia showdown was the Olympic men's ice hockey dream game everyone wanted -- just not in the quarter-finals.

British private equity firm 3i Group agreed to sell Ambea to rival buyout firm Triton for 850 million euros ($1.16 billion)

A young pair of ice dancers lifted the host country out of its Winter Olympic gloom with a golden performance Monday just as Canadians were questioning their team's medal-winning capability.

Remaining players in the satnav sector are rethinking strategies and some are set to sell out under pressure to survive

As the saying goes, money isn't everything, but it certainly means more to people now than before the global financial crisis, and especially in China, Japan and South Korea.

Finnish media rounded on the country's athletes on Monday for their performance at the Vancouver Olympics where the sports-mad country lags Australia in medals and could be facing its worst-ever performance.

The Big Red Machine got back in gear as Russia beat the Czech Republic 4-2 to kick off a potentially explosive Olympic hockey Super Sunday.

It was indeed Miller Time -- as the beer slogan goes -- for the U.S. Olympic team Sunday after skier Bode Miller snatched his first Olympic gold medal and ice hockey goalkeeper Ryan Miller stopped Canada in a heartbreaking loss for the hockey-crazed host nation.

Three of international ice hockey's greatest rivalries take center stage for a hat-trick of grudge matches in what is being billed as Olympic Super Sunday at Canada Hockey Place. Sports

India will narrow down the number of bidders by mid-2010 for its $11 billion fighter jet tender, a minister said, in a closely watched deal where diplomacy and strategic interests will play a big role.

Sweden waited eight years but finally got revenge for one of the biggest upsets in Olympic men's ice hockey with a 4-2 win over Belarus on Friday.

American Evan Lysacek glided to Olympic gold in men's figure skating on Thursday in a stunning upset of Russian Yevgeny Plushenko's pursuit of back-to-back titles.

They sleep in boxy rooms crammed into dingy low-rises and spend hours commuting to work on crowded buses as part of a trend of poorer white-collar workers being forced to the fringes of China's wealthiest cities.

Germany's Maria Riesch snatched the women's super combined crown on Thursday after American Lindsey Vonn lost control and blew her chances of a second gold in as many days at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Nearly all the major oil companies are looking across Europe for shale gas, an unconventional energy source that has transformed the U.S. energy market.

Spyker will have to raise more cash in order to make its $400-million acquisition of Sweden's Saab sustainably profitable amid gut-wrenching changes in the global automobile industry.