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A court in Pakistan that prosecutes acts of terrorism has issued an arrest warrant for former military chief Pervez Musharraf in connection with the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in late 2007.

One of the ongoing problems with unclear non-proliferation efforts is what to do with nuclear material in the former Soviet Union. A group from Sandia National Laboratories recently completed a project in Kazakhstan, and taking another step towards securing it.

Hosni Mubarak’s somewhat belated decision to resign as President of Egypt has elicited almost universal joy (mixed with caution) from leaders and prominent figures around the world:

A furious wave of protest finally swept Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak from power on Friday after 30 years of one-man rule, sparking jubilation on the streets and sending a warning to autocrats across the Arab world and beyond.

Soft drink bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc reported higher fourth-quarter profit that met Wall Street estimates, helped by higher volume and pricing, and backed its 2011 profit outlook.

Soft drink bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc reported a rise in fourth-quarter profit, helped by higher volume and pricing, and backed its 2011 profit outlook.

BP has offered its Russian venture TNK-BP a chance to join its partnership with Rosneft , TNK-BP's deputy CEO told reporters on Friday, signaling a possible resolution to a row.

Margin compression is a nasty thing in business. According to government data, this is precisely what UK manufacturers are facing.

A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused Sweden's prime minister Friday of damaging his client's chances of a fair trial for alleged sex crimes by portraying him as public enemy number one.

A US hedge fund has objected to DuPont's $5.8 billion bid for Danisco, a global enzyme and specialty food ingredients company, according to a report from Reuters.

Britain's smaller companies are reluctant to tap banks for financing due to negative perceptions of the sector, a survey said on Friday, as politicians continue to attack the industry for not lending enough to businesses. Britain wants banks to lend more money in order to stimulate the country's faltering economy, and this week it struck a deal

Factory gate inflation rose twice as fast as expected last month, and the cost of raw materials soared, heaping pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates sooner rather than later.

EBay Inc expects revenue at its PayPal unit to double by 2013 as it sought on Thursday to cast itself as a reinvented company and an innovator at the center of e-commerce.

Qualcomm Inc said on Thursday that its newest dual-core processor was designed to compete in the red-hot tablet market against Texas Instruments and smaller rival Nvidia, which has dominated design wins in early 2011.

EBay Inc said it expects revenue at its PayPal unit to double by 2013 as it sought on Thursday to cast itself as a reinvented company and an innovator at the center of e-commerce.

World stock markets fell hard on Thursday, with Hong Kong shares losing 2% and London's FTSE100 dropping 0.9% by lunchtime. Indian stock markets have lost more than $20 million per minute so far in 2011, the Economic Times reports, with billionaire Anil Ambani blaming vicious and illegal rumors.

U.N. nuclear watchdog governors are expected to approve next month a new fuel supply plan meant to help countries develop atomic energy without increasing the risk of weapons proliferation.

The fate of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak will be decided in a matter of hours and most probably he will step down, an Egyptian official told Reuters on Thursday.

Trevor Bailey, one of the greatest England all-rounders of the post-war era, has been found dead in a fire at a nursing home in Essex.

The Bank of England kept its key interest rate at a record low of 0.5 percent Thursday, judging that the threat from rising inflation will prove temporary and that Britain's recovery remains in doubt.

Wall Street was weighed down by disappointing earnings from Cisco Systems, but stocks bounced off their lows on Thursday as investors saw weakness in the market as a buying opportunity.