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Sweden's Spotify, the European digital music service, will be available to customers of British mobile operator 3 through a new HTC Hero phone, the three companies said on Monday.

A decision on whether the Swedish government will give loan guarantees to troubled auto maker Saab is still a couple of months away, the country's enterprise minister told Reuters on Thursday.

Buoyed by a substantial first-place U.K. debut, the Pixar cartoon Up reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the foreign box office during the weekend.

LG Electronics Inc said on Monday a U.S. International Trade Commission judge has ruled it has not infringed Whirlpool Corp's patent for ice storage bins placed in refrigerator doors.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reform treaty into law on Saturday, leaving the Czech Republic as the only country still to ratify the document.

More lucrative British incentives to produce energy from rotting and gasified waste are driving a push to biogas, following a wider European trend.

U.S. President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday.

China's Tengzhong may finalize a deal to buy General Motors Co's Hummer business for about $150 million on Friday, a source familiar with the deal said, China's biggest brand grab since Lenovo bought IBM's PC unit in 2005.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus raised a new obstacle to the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty on Thursday, telling EU president Sweden he wants a footnote added to the document before signing it into force.

Ford Motor Co's Volvo Cars denied a Swedish newspaper report on Thursday claiming that the unit's chief executive would leave the company by the end of the year, dismissing the article as pure speculation.

Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer told European Union leaders Wednesday it was just a matter of time before President Vaclav Klaus signs the EU's Lisbon treaty, the last big obstacle to reforms to give the bloc more clout.

Canada's Nortel Networks said on Wednesday it has agreed to a stalking horse offer from U.S. network specialist Ciena Corp to buy its optical networking and Internet infrastructure businesses for $521 million.

European Union countries are split over plans to introduce an EU-wide carbon tax on fuel, which could be proposed early next year.

The Swedish government said on Tuesday it had asked the European Commission to assess whether proposed loan guarantees to Saab Automobile would break rules on state support.

Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for revealing the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme which helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that underlies aging and cancer.

Global finance chiefs made little headway on Sunday in overcoming long-standing disagreements over how much power rich nations should cede to major developing countries at the International Monetary Fund.

Fierce disagreement over how much power rich nations should cede to developing countries clouded talks between global finance chiefs on expanding the role of the International Monetary Fund.

The head of the International Finance Corp said on Saturday that the group plans to work with private equity funds, debt servicing companies and major banks to soak up toxic assets held by banks in emerging markets.

More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to be 100 years old if current life expectancy trends continue, according to Danish researchers.

Government funds propped up an ailing European auto industry in September, in contrast to an expected slump in sales in the United States after its cash for clunkers scheme ran out of money.

South Korea surpassed Japan and Sweden to take the top spot in an annual ranking of broadband quality, helped by its government's efforts to boost it as an IT world leader, a study showed on Thursday.