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The London Stock Exchange and Canada's TMX Group reported forecast-beating results on Friday as they applied for regulatory approval of their $3 billion deal to join forces.

The London Stock Exchange and Canada's TMX Group reported forecast-beating results on Friday as they filed their $3 billion merger deal with Canadian authorities.

Twenty five years ago, on May 13, 1986, Robert Pattinson was born in London England.

Police in Ireland has arrested a converted Muslim man in Dublin on suspicions that he has threatened to kill Barack Obama when the U.S. presidents visits the Republic later this month.

The Dollar price of Gold on wholesale markets continued to rally Friday morning, rising as high as $1516 per ounce - less than 4% off this month's all-time high - before slipping back, while stock and commodity markets recovered some of Thursday's losses.

Total digital music sales in the UK have hit £1 billion barrier for the first time since the launch of legal online music service in 2004.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron reopened the case of Madeleine McCann on her eighth birthday on Thursday. Madeleine went missing during a family holiday to Portugal on May 3 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday.

A former WikiLeaks spokesman has condemned Julian Assange for demanding workers for the website sign confidentiality agreements threatening penalties of up to 12 million British pounds ($19.5 million).

Janssen, one of the units of Johnson and Johnson has tackled some issues in a discussion together with the regulatory authorities in five different countries about the trace amounts of fungicide discovered in the HIV drug, Prezista. Johnson and Johnson did a series of recalls that pertain to the presence of the chemical. The discussion was started by Janssen after receiving four consumer reports of a foul undetermined musty and moldy odor.

The European Commission will propose legislation in coming weeks to bring EU mobile phone roaming charges further into line with national tariffs, EU sources told Reuters Thursday.

A report from a British based gaming site says with the PSN outage, more people are trading in their PS3s.

After being absent from the public for almost two weeks, footage of Moammar Gaddafi was shown on Libyan state TV last night.

Amidst growing questions over the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the commando raid that resulted in the death of the former al-Qaeda terror chief.

Google’s first Chromebook from Samsung and Acer’s new web-centric PCs can be monthly subscribed at $28/user for businesses and $20/user for schools.

Google unveils a laptop line specifically catered for its Chrome OS. The first two laptops were built by Acer and Samsung.

Gold rallied to one-week highs at $1526 per ounce in Wednesday morning trade - a gain of 4.3% from last Friday's low - before falling back as world stock markets also cut their rally. Silver has now regained a third of its losses since falling over 30% from a 31-year peak of $48.70 at the end of April.

HSBC's new boss is to cut back in retail banking and may sell its U.S. credit card arm in a bid to cut $3.5 billion in costs and revive flagging profits.

HSBC is to streamline its wealth management business, retreat from retail banking in some countries and may sell its U.S. credit cards arm as new CEO Stuart Gulliver attempts to cut $3.5 billion in costs and revive flagging profits.

HSBC is to streamline its wealth management business, retreat from retail banking in some countries and may sell its U.S. credit cards arm as new CEO Stuart Gulliver attempts to cut $3.5 billion in costs and revive flagging profits.

The Got Talent franchise is a British TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company.

Warner Music Group, which is being bought by billionaire Len Blavatnik's Access Industries, reported a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss, helped by a 9 percent jump in digital revenue.