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Holiday operator Thomas Cook is evacuating around 1,800 British and Irish tourists and 2,000 Germans from Tunisia in light of political unrest there, the company said.

Linklaters has played a lead role in advising private equity investment group Apax Partners on the $1.7 billion acquisition of the value-clothing retailer, Takko Holding GmbH from Advent International.

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the U.K. has issued an advisory recommending that British citizens avoid travel to Tunisia due to the surge in civil disturbances in the country. The US and France have also advised against non-essential travel to Tunisia.

CMS Cameron McKenna said it has hired Simmons & Simmons US securities partner Daniel Winterfeldt to head its newly launched international capital markets (ICM) group.

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has strengthened its regulatory practice with the appointment of DLA Piper's financial services litigation expert Daren Allen.

Computer hacker George Samuel Bronk, 23, of Citrus heights California pleaded guilty for seven felony charges which included hacking into e-mail accounts and Facebook accounts of worn in 17 states and in England.

Apple's iOS App Store and other similar app stores act as checkpoints and are therefore 'dangerous, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said.

It vanished within hours from the online site

Intel Corp's revenue and margin forecasts beat expectations on healthy technology spending, defying worries about the chipmaker's minor role in the booming smartphone and tablet market.

Companies will no longer be able to force staff to retire at 65, Britain's government said on Thursday in a move to boost the number of older people staying on at work as the population ages.

The euro zone faces short-term price pressures which could linger, the European Central Bank said on Thursday, showing it is ready to raise interest rates if needed although it expects inflation should be contained.

2010 has tied 2005 as the warmest year since people have been keeping records, according to data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

Moody’s Investors Service warns that the U.S., U.K., Germany and France need to clamp down on health care and pension expenditures in order to stabilize their debt structure over the long term.

India has now exempted foreign tourists from the mandatory two-month gap to re-enter the country for regular onward medical treatment.

Industrial production continues to remain below expectations in the U.K., hurt by weakness in the oil and gas extraction sector.

UK-based oil and gas explorer Premier Oil sees lower average production in 2010 as it saw increased maintenance activity in the North Sea, particularly during the second half of the year.

Europe's second biggest electricals retailer Dixons Retail Plc on Thursday said its like-for-like sales for the 12-week period ended Jan 8, 2011, fell 2 percent as sales fell 1 percent in local currency due to adverse weather conditions in the run up to Christmas.

Two Ugandan journalists have been arrested over a cartoon of President Yoweri Museveni on the cover of their magazine which referred to his 24 years in power and asked Where next?, their lawyer said on Wednesday.

In his first speech as Britain’s new Minister of Trade and Investment, Stephen Green (The Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint) emphasized the vital importance of China to British UK economy.

Debutant Chris Woakes kept his cool to steer England to a one wicket victory against Australia in the last ball of the day while chasing 158 in the first T20 match of the series at the Adelaide Oval.

Tennis ace Roger Federer, who is in Melbourne, Australia, preparing for the Australian open, is expected to organize a charity exhibition match on Sunday, while other sports stars donated in their own ways.