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AIG's American Life Insurance Company will restructure its western European businesses in order to generate cost savings, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters.

Opportunistic property investor NewRiver Retail has suspended plans for a 250 million pound ($406.3 million) listing on London's Alternative Investment Market stock exchange, a company spokeswoman told Reuters.

Michael Jackson's death dominated news bulletins, radio airwaves and social networking sites the world over on Friday as tributes poured in for a man called the King of Pop and natural heir to Elvis.

One person captured on Internet videos helping Neda, the young Iranian woman killed last week who has become an icon of the protests, was identified by a British newspaper on Friday as a doctor who has since fled Iran.

A hardline Iranian cleric on Friday called for the execution of rioters, in a sign of the authorities' determination to stamp out opposition to the June 12 presidential election result.

Microsoft Windows 7 pre order will start tomorrow until July 11th in the United States and Canada. Japan is also included on the list for tomorrow’s pre order release but will end earlier on July 5TH or while supplies last.

The Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, has opened its doors to the public. The spectacular building is home to more than 4,000 works from the ancient world, including parts of the sculptures that adorned the Parthenon.

The first iPhone porn app was approved and then later, disapproved and removed from the iPhone App Store in the space of a few hours.

The German government wants additional assurances before giving its support to a special state-backed loan for Arcandor's mail order unit Quelle, Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Barack Obama on Thursday not to interfere in Iran's internal affairs after the U.S. president said he was appalled and outraged by post-election violence in the Islamic state.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama on Thursday of behaving like his predecessor toward Iran and said there was not much point in talking to Washington unless the U.S. president apologized.

The Australian Dollar opens marginally higher from this time yesterday at 0.7965 after another 24-hour session in which most of the action happened offshore.

Britain warned on Thursday of a growing risk to military and business secrets from computer spies and pledged to toughen cyber security to protect the 50 billion pounds ($82 billion) spent a year online in its economy.

Iran's reformist opposition leaders vowed to press on with legal challenges to an election they say was rigged, even as the hardline government appeared on Thursday to have largely crushed mass street protests.

Woolworths, the 100-year-old sweets-to-DVD retailer that collapsed earlier this year, will on Thursday be revived as an online business by Britain's biggest home shopping retailer, Shop Direct, which bought the brand name in February.

Three of China's “big four” banks ranked in the top five in terms of profits among all banks around the world last year, the UK magazine The Banker released on Wednesday.

MetroPCS Communications Inc on Wednesday unveiled a discounted international calling service, its latest effort to appeal to cost conscious U.S. consumers.

The world's rich lost a fifth of their wealth in 2008 and the number of people with fortunes of more than $1 million fell 15 percent as the financial crisis wiped out two years of growth, a study showed on Wednesday.

Iran's interior minister Sadeq Mahsouli accused the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of helping to fund rioters, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The global population of high net worth individuals fell 14.5 last year along with the economy, according to a new report.

Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday Tehran was reviewing whether to downgrade ties with Britain, which Iran has accused of interference in its disputed presidential election, the ISNA news agency reported.