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Elizabeth Murdoch's comments came after The Sun, a News International title owned by her father, became the first British newspaper to publish the infamous naked photographs of Prince Harry - a move which it describes as a "crucial test of Britain's free Press."

he Markit Flash Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index, a measure of services and manufacturing order volumes, was 46.6 in August, down from 46.5 in July.

Both Juncker and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who Samaras will meet on Friday, are under enormous political pressure to act tough with Greece and are expected to offer little room for renegotiation.

News of the Paypal co-founder's exit comes a day after several of Groupon Inc's [NASDAQ: GRPN] largest early investors sold their stock in the troubled online voucher site.

Internet finance mogul Marc Andreessen, who invested $40 in the company months before it went public last November, has cashed out, while investors Fidelity and Maverick Capital have sold a large portion of their shares.

The death penalty, with a two-year reprieve, usually equates to a life sentence in China. Under the terms of the sentence, Gu will be spared execution if she does not commit any further crimes in the next two years.

The rags-to-riches, self-publishing story of "Fifty Shades of Grey" has garnered plenty of industry attention, with articles dedicated to how the phenomenon is sounding the death knell for printed books and traditional publishing houses.

President Dilma Rousseff said the investment will include the laying of 6,200 miles of train tracks and building or widening 4,660 miles of federal highways.

Deutsche Bank, Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, RBS, HSBC, UBS and Citigroup have all received subpoenas, related to the joint New York-Connecticut investigation of possible manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor)

Assange, who has been holed up in the embassy since June 19, is fighting extradition to Sweden where he faces charges of sexually assaulting two former WikiLeaks volunteers.

Despite recent headline defaults, muni bonds have enjoyed a confidence born from historically low default rates, especially when compared to their riskier private sector cousins, corporate bonds.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc [WMT], Target Corp. [TGT], 7-Eleven Inc., and Sunoco Inc. [SUN] are poised to announce their rival to the Google Wallet payment system, which launched on Android powered phones last year, the Wall Street Journal revealed. When it does launch, MCX will join the multi-billion dollar race to develop mobile phone payment systems, which propose to do away with cash and card transactions.

Some of the China's largest solar manufacturers are facing huge debt liabilities, and one of them, Suntech Power Holdings [STP.N], is potentially on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars after it disclosed potential fraud by a partner.

Peter Sands is set to negotiate directly with prosecutor Benjamin Lawsky of New York's Department of Financial Services (DFS), in a bid save its state banking license from being revoked.

Soros announced the engagement at his 82nd birthday party held at the octogenarian's summer home in Southampton, N.Y., a person familiar with the investor said.

The Justice Dept. said there was "not a viable basis to bring a criminal prosecution" against Goldman Sachs, quietly ending a yearlong investigation into allegations the firm bet against the same subprime mortgage-backed securities that it also sold to its clients.

A new rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo, now within 30 miles of a regional capitol is threatening the country's tin mining industry.

Prosecutors accused Kailai, and another man, of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood after the pair lured him into a hotel room in the Chinese city of Chongqing and poisoning him.

Despite most central banks slashing interest rates in 2009, there is still room for central banks to maneuver and stimulate their sluggish economies.

Pity the City. America is on a witch hunt against London's financial center, ruthlessly exploiting a few rotten banking apples to pursue their own political scheme, or so British MPs would have you believe.

The search giant's corporate tax bill amounts to £1,519 paid for every million pounds in turnover, a rate of just 0.15 percent.

Local campaigners have compared the potential impact of the mine's effluent to BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster and the Exxon Valdez oil spill, saying the region's fish stocks will become unsellable if the project goes ahead.

The New York State Dept. of Financial Services has ordered Standard Chartered to explain its alleged illegal money laundering and called the UK-based a "rogue institution".

Edith Bosch, 32, was standing next to the man when he hurled the plastic bottle from behind the start line only seconds before the race began.

The Merchants Payments Coalition (MPC), which represents retailers, says the fees levied on American supermarkets, stores and gas stations by Visa and MasterCard are up to three times more than in other parts of the world, inflating prices for U.S. consumers.

Spain's Iberia has created a euro zone crisis management group to deliver a "Spain euro exit road map project" to prepare for a possible exit by the indebted country, with the group meeting every two weeks.

The investment at Rikers Island prison is a so-called "social-impact bond", the first of its kind for an American city, and means any potential return for Goldman hinges on the success of a program that will educate, train and counsel inmates aged between 16 and 18.

The Bank of Korea, which already holds the world's seventh-biggest foreign-exchange reserves, is the latest of several central banks to purchase bullion as a hedge against European sovereign debt and tumbling equities.

A number of companies, led by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, have already started taking bookings for suborbital travel, with a view to launching the first flights in late 2013.