IBT Staff Reporter

Equity capital market transactions totaled $23.3 billion last week, with 59 deals in the Asia Pacific region in the last week, a report by Dealogic said.

In an attempt to embrace the Conservative base, French president Nicholas Sarkozy turned to right-wing politicians in the cabinet reshuffle, riddled with surprises, on Sunday.

Arsenal moved to second in the Premier League after surviving Eveton's late fightback to win 2-1 through goals from Sagna and Fabregas.

British housebuilder Persimmon Plc confirmed that current trading in line with expectations, and it still expects sales revenue to rise about 10 percent this year.

Majestic Wine Plc, UK's largest wine warehouse chain, reported a 20 percent rise in first-half pretax profit as sales rose on substantial increase in active customers, and the company lifted its interim dividend by 17.9 percent to 3.3 pence.

India's annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), marginally declined to 8.58 percent for the month of October 2010 as compared to 8.62 percent for the previous month and 1.48 percent during the corresponding month of the previous year, according to a government statement on Monday.

Singapore's retail sales (seasonally adjusted) decreased 2.4 percent in September 2010 compared to August 2010, the Singapore Department of Statistics said in a statement.

At the recent custody case of Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva the Los Angeles court judge ordered Mel to pay child support for his daughter.

Coty Inc, world's largest fragrance company with $4 billion sales for last year has added to its collection of celebrity fragrance endorsements with the signing of Lady Gaga to develop her own signature line.

Jay-Z and Gucci fashion house have come up with a leather bomber jacket to release his book 'Decoded' in a unique way. An interactive game with the Microsoft search engine Bing has been created to enable people to unlock clues to preview pages of the book.

A British couple taken hostage by the Somali pirates last year was released on Sunday. Reports suggest that the couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, paid a ransom amount of $300,000 to their captors. The pirates reportedly handed them over to officials in Adado, a central Somali town near the Ethiopian border.

Israel is to discuss a 90-day construction freeze in West Bank proposed by the United States, sources say. At the recent Washington meeting between Israeli Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, US reportedly proposed an incentive package to reinstate a moratorium on West Bank settlement building. However, the proposal does not include a suspension of settlement activity in East Jerusalem.

Everton have been impressive in recent months after bouncing back from a slow start to the season. They face Arsenal on the back of a draw against Bolton during mid-week, thanks to Jermain Beckford's 94th minute equalizer for the Merseyside club.

Arsenal travel to Goodison Park on Sunday for the early kick-off against Everton in the English Premier League.

Ecotricity, the UK's leading green energy company, has launched the first high performance electric sports car 'Nemesis' designed and built entirely in the UK.

In her first major speech to the supporters, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi called upon the democratic forces in the country to work together. Thousands of cheering supporters flocked the headquarters of the National Democratic league (NLD) in Yangon on Sunday afternoon to catch a glimpse of their leader.

Five hundred million of a total of 1.4 billion smartphone users will be using mobile health applications in 2015, a report said. Both healthcare providers and consumers are embracing smartphones as a means for improving healthcare.

The city-wide electric vehicle charging network in London will be launched in spring 2011. The scheme called Source London will deliver 1,300 public charging points throughout UK's capital city by 2013.

Tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan rise as both sides prepare themselves to contest each other over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

For most, the word Wireless invokes various thoughts from accessing mails in a coffee shop to chatting with long distance friends on the touch or booking tickets at a go. Can anyone dream of Wireless Agriculture?

WBC super welterweight championship live updates of Manny Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito live at at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Manchester United lived up to their name of 'the team that never gives up' by making a stunning comeback to grab a point against Aston Villa who failed to sustain their two goal cushion.

Tata Power, India’s largest integrated private power utility company, said its consolidated profit after tax (PAT ) increased to 6.75 billion rupees as compared to 3.68 billion rupees the corresponding quarter last year.

Tata Steel, the world's seventh largest steel company, has said its consolidated net profit after tax increased 8.5 percent to 19.79 billion rupees ($440 million) for the second quarter higher than the profit of 18.25 billion rupees ($406 million) in Q1 FY’11.

Christopher Nolan is looking out for leading ladies for the third Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. He has narrowed down his list to Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Blake Lively, Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway and Keira Knightley, reports Deadline.

The iconic Superman is being cast again. Director Zack Snyder's Superman is looking around for a new hero and the net has been cast wide from the previous big screen superman Brandon Routh, Smallville's Tom Welling, Joe Manganiello of True Blood to John Cena and Dwyane Rock Johnson of wrestling fame.

David Arquette may have announced the reasons for separating from his wife Courteney Cox but it seems he hasn't disclosed all of them yet. According to The Mirror he now blames Jennifer Aniston for the break-up of his marriage.

Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh wanted a dead bird as a pet and her son Max is reportedly a better cook than her. These are the glimpses that Angelina Jolie allows us in to her life with kids in an interview with the Vogue magazine which has her on the cover of November issue.

'Mining' has been a word mainly attached to coal, ores, minerals and metals -- all precious commodities. However, since social networking emerged as the latest fad, the word has gotten precious with a prefix - data mining.