IBT Staff Reporter

Tired of suffocating crowds and seemingly never-ending lines? On Saturday, retailers want you to think small.

The fight for mom and pop's stock orders is getting testy on Wall Street.

Global miner Rio Tinto warned on Monday that further cracks could be emerging in global commodities markets as the economies of Europe and the U.S. waver, with its customers increasingly cautious on the outlook.

A recovery plan by Air France to end its losses will have two stages with the first part, to be implemented in January or February, focused on savings to improve cash flows, newspaper La Tribune wrote in article released on Sunday.

Global miner Rio Tinto warned on Monday that customers were turning cautious but said it was still able to sell all the commodities it could produce.

At least six people have died of AIDS after evangelical churches in Great Britain told them that God had cured their HIV and that they could stop taking medication, according to a Sky News investigation. Another person thinks he infected his partner after his church told him he could have unprotected sex and start a family.

Detailed operational rules for the euro zone's bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility , are ready for approval by euro zone finance ministers on Tuesday, documents obtained by Reuters showed on Sunday.

Japanese industrial giant Hitachi could double its earnings in the next couple of years, veteran investor Michael Katz told Barron's.

Euro zone countries could create a Stability Union to secure deeper fiscal integration relatively quickly, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Sunday.

More people headed to stores and websites over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and average spending per person rose 9.1 percent as bargain-hunting shoppers scooped up discounts on everything from gadgets to hoodies, a National Retail Federation survey on Sunday showed.

Newt Gingrich got praise from an unexpected source on Sunday: former President Bill Clinton, who spent much of the 1990s at loggerheads with a Gingrich-led Congress. Clinton pointed to two unconventional positions the latest Republican front-runner took at a national security debate last week and said that independent voters were hungry for ideas that make some sense.

Iraq signed a final $17 billion deal with Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi <8058.T> on Sunday to capture flared gas at southern oilfields, a project that should boost production of badly needed electricity.

U.S. retailers moved from the frenzied start of the holiday shopping season to the next phase on Saturday, hoping to avoid a drop after Black Friday and keep the momentum going during a fitful economic recovery.

The chief executive of Nokia Siemens Networks , the world's second-largest maker of mobile phone network equipment, has warned employees NSN cannot expect any more money from its parent companies, a German magazine reported on Sunday.

Germany and France are exploring radical methods of securing deeper and more rapid fiscal integration among euro zone countries, aware that getting broad backing for the necessary treaty changes may not be possible, EU officials say.

Akamai Technologies, which helps companies improve website performance, is in talks to buy its smaller Israeli rival Cotendo for more than $300 million, the Calcalist financial daily reported on Sunday.

Reuters found a Japanese banker who is a key figure in the Olympus Corp accounting scandal at a luxury apartment block in Hong Kong on Sunday, where he exploded in anger at finally being tracked down.

Hold on, I'm in the middle of a Twitter war with Nouriel Roubini, author James Rickards says as he answers the phone from his Manhattan office.

Two top 10 shareholders in BSkyB will vote against James Murdoch remaining as chairman of the company at its AGM on Tuesday, according to newspaper reports on Sunday.

League leaders Manchester City will make the tough trip to Anfield to face Liverpool on Sunday, in the Premier League.

Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> unveiled a highly anticipated sports car that it hopes will trigger the rebirth of the company as a maker of fun cars that it hasn't been in years.

Real Madrid went six points clear at the top of the Spanish Primera Division with a 4-1 victory in the Madrid derby against Atletico Madrid.

Manchester United were dealt a blow by ten-man Newcastle United after they were held 1-1 at Old Trafford in controversial circumstances.

Over the past year, the international movement to halt the shark fin trade has made leaps and bounds, moving up the chain from campaigns targeting consumers to efforts by politicians to implement stricter legislation against the sale, possession and distribution of shark fins. From the U.S. West Coast to Europe and Asia, progress is being made to turn the dish itself into an endangered menu item.

Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people over a hacking operation that targeted customers of U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based militant group.

Tired of suffocating crowds and seemingly never-ending lines? On Saturday, retailers want you to think small.

Even as the company seems to experience massive success, shares of the online retailer are down significantly from the 52-week high of $246.71, which was reached last month.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are planning more drastic means -- including a quick, new Stability Pact -- to fight the Eurozone sovereign-debt crisis, Welt am Sonntag reported Sunday.

Four people have been arrested in the Philippines for allegedly hacking into AT&T's phone system in order to funnel money to a Saudi-based terrorist organization, according to the country's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.