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EADS, BAE Call Off Aviation/Defense Merger

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EADS and BAE Systems called off the world's largest defense and aviation merger on Wednesday, and sources close to the talks blamed Germany for wrecking the $45 billion deal.
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Mickey and Minnie are pictured at the 20th anniversary celebrations of Disneyland Resort in Marne-la-Vallee, outside Paris

New UK Theme Park To Rival Disneyland Paris

Disneyland Paris is currently Europe’s most popular tourist attraction, but a proposed £2 billion ($3.2bn) Paramount Pictures theme park in England hopes to change that when it opens in 2018.
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11 Euro States Back Financial Transaction Tax

Eleven euro zone countries agreed on Tuesday to press ahead with a disputed tax on financial transactions designed to help pay for the cost of fixing a crisis that has rocked the single currency area.

US Senators Mulling Fresh Iran Sanctions As Rial Plummets

The U.S. lawmakers are considering expanding the economic sanctions on Iran in the wake of the near-collapse of the Iranian currency, which senior Iranian clerics called a consequence of an American-led conspiracy to wage an economic war on Tehran.

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