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Nissan Motor Co Ltd recalled nearly 271,000 older-model Pathfinder and Infiniti QX4 SUVs in North America due to the chance that road salt and water could collect to cause a loss of steering, U.S. safety regulators said.

RBC Capital Markets said FDA could approve Endocyte Inc.'s (NASDAQ: ECYT) EC145 to treat women patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

Iran has been targeted by a second computer virus in a cyber war waged by its enemies, its commander of civil defense said on Monday.

President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell - taking a break from discussing the nation's long term deficits - issued dueling statements on U.S. energy policy over the past several days, referring to changes in rules that could affect oil production, tax subsidies and research into alternative energy.

Wall Street stocks looked set to open near three-year highs on Monday after strong earnings, although traders eyed rising oil prices in what was likely to be a slow session, with major European markets closed.

China's ministry of culture is to punish search engine company Baidu for providing illegal music downloads, a move that may hit its soaring share price.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Polycom, OmniVision Technologies, Changyou.com, Sohu.com, and Avanir Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Orexigen Therapeutics, SanDisk, Micron Technology, and Huntington Bancshares.

Upward momentum from a raft of recent strong earnings reports helped lift U.S. stock index futures on Monday, although traders eyed rising oil prices as a potential negative for the market.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion said Russia could help development of new technologies by finding a balance between state security and innovation.

Upward momentum from a raft of recent strong earnings reports helped lift U.S. stocks futures on Monday, although traders eyed rising oil prices as a potential negative for the market.

U.S. stocks ended higher on Thursday as robust earnings from Apple, Morgan Stanley and General Electric lifted the market, but weaker-than- expected reports on jobless claims and Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index kept gains in check.

Gunatanamo detainees verbalized violent threats against their captors, according to the latest set of classified files leaked to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd posted its second straight fall in annual profit on Monday, as sales of its aging Wii games console slowed and the March 11 earthquake weighed on Japanese consumer spending.

The Australian dollar hit a fresh 29-year high and South Korea's benchmark share index touched another record intraday high on Monday, suggesting investors were still eager to embrace risk and higher-yielding assets.

Photos of the devastation left behind by tornadoes from North Carolina suburbs to St Louis International Airport even as Texas and Ohio brace for storms and severe weather.

China needs to guard against volatility in U.S. Treasury prices should investors demand higher returns from U.S. government debt, a researcher at the Chinese central bank said on Monday.

U.S. investigators suspect a manufacturing lapse at a Boeing Co plant 15 years ago could be to blame for a midair tear in a Southwest Airlines Co aircraft earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Sunday.

NYSE Euronext sees cost savings in its $9.8 billion deal with Deutsche Boerse at closer to 400 million euros ($583 million), up by about a third from its initial estimate, according to a Big Board spokesman on Sunday.

Mexico's peso may dip against the dollar once the United States starts tightening monetary policy but the overall impact on Mexico should be limited, Finance Minister Ernesto Cordero said on Sunday.

Since the height of the financial crisis, gold prices have soared, oil has surged, the US dollar has somewhat declined against other currencies, and US consumer price inflation has only inched up slightly.

Data on how the U.S. and British economies fared in the first three months of the year due next week will likely highlight the tenuous nature of the recovery from recession in developed countries.