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Toyota Motor Corp expects costs and lost sales from its massive safety recall to total $2 billion by the end of March, keeping it in the red for the year despite its strongest profit in six quarters.

Nearly all Europe-related stocks, bonds and exchange traded funds are selling heavily during the morning New York session.

Toyota Motor Corp expects costs and lost sales from its massive safety recall to total $2 billion by the end of March, keeping it in the red for the year despite its strongest profit in six quarters.

Britain and India have reached an outline agreement on cooperation in the nuclear fuel sector, British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said on Thursday.

The Australian Dollar opens lower against the greenback today at 0.8815 after mixed local trade data released yesterday.

Iran said on Wednesday it had launched a Kavoshgar-3 rocket capable of carrying a satellite -- a move that may add to Western concern about Tehran's nuclear program.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday Iran was ready to send its enriched uranium abroad in exchange for nuclear fuel, and a U.S. official said Washington was prepared to listen if Iran was making a new offer to break an impasse over its disputed nuclear program.

The Australian Dollar opens lower today at 0.8840 after a busy 24 hours. In a decision that surprised financial markets, the Reserve Bank of Australia left interest rates on hold yesterday at 3.75 per cent causing the currency to dive one US cent in a matter of minutes.

Kraft Foods won control of Cadbury on Tuesday as holders of almost 72 percent of the British chocolatier's stock accepted the 11.7 billion pound takeover that will create the world's biggest confectioner.

As more children connect to the Internet, a new study is showing that nearly of quarter of children have already sent or received email with inappropriate content .

Former minister Clare Short accused Tony Blair of lying over the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and stifling discussion in the British cabinet in the run-up to the war.

Airbus and buyer nations have intensified efforts to strike a deal this week over the funding of Europe's delayed A400M military transporter, exhausted by months of wrangling, sources close to the talks said.

A vast majority of online banking customers use their login credentials to access other websites, sharply increasing risk of attack to their bank account, Internet security firm Trusteer said on Tuesday.

Google has taken the unusual step of using real-world advertising to promote its Chrome web browser in Europe ahead of a regulatory change that will make it easier for consumers to switch Web browsers.

(Corrects 7th paragraph to show Google did not initiate the EU case against Microsoft but entered as an interested third party)

The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper on Tuesday that caused a 12-year international battle over links between the three-in-one childhood MMR vaccine and autism.

Chocolate maker Hershey Co defended its decision to back away from a Cadbury bid and a bigger stake in the global confectionery market, saying it remained confident about its growth prospects and was raising its dividend.

Kraft Foods is set to receive enough acceptances from Cadbury shareholders to seal its 11.7 billion pounds ($18.6 billion) takeover by around 1700 GMT (12 noon EST) Tuesday and start the tough integration of Cadbury's 45,000 worldwide employees.

President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve a record $708 billion in defence spending for fiscal 2011, but vowed to continue his drive to eliminate unnecessary, wasteful weapons programs.

This morning the AUD opens higher at 0.8906 against the greenback regaining more than 1% from an intraday low of 0.8787 on Monday.

JPMorgan Chase is rethinking its purchase of RBS Sempra and could pick up only the joint venture's oil operations and all the non-U.S. businesses, a source familiar with the matter said.