IBT Staff Reporter

The United States unveiled a plan to cut greenhouse gases by 2020 on Wednesday and said President Barack Obama will attend U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen next month -- before other world leaders show up.

U.S. stocks edged up on Wednesday after data pointed to stabilizing labor and housing markets, considered two big headwinds slowing down a recovery.

U.S. and U.N. officials have proposed solutions to Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president to stop him vetoing for a second time a law needed for an election to take place next year, an official said on Wednesday.

Deere & Co , the world's largest maker of tractors and harvesters, reported a quarterly net loss on Wednesday on weak equipment sales and a series of one-time charges.

A Cadbury workers union held constructive talks with U.S. suitor Kraft Foods after the two sides met to discuss jobs, pensions and working conditions on Wednesday, a union official said.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2009 will be held on Thursday marching through a new route for the first time in 82 years.

British utility services group Telecom Plus posted a lower first-half profit on increased costs but said it was on target to report both strong revenue and dividend for the full year.

London Stock Exchange Chief Executive Xavier Rolet said the success of his strategy to counter intense competition from upstart rivals in UK cash equity trading should be clear within six to nine months.

Private equity investors are planning for the possibility Canada's economy will struggle to emerge from recession, even if it turns in a positive third-quarter performance, money managers said on Tuesday.

Singapore's CapitaMalls Asia shares debuted 8.5 percent higher as the city state's biggest public offering in 16 years raised $2.02 billion for parent CapitaLand Southeast Asia's biggest developer.

A Pakistani court indicted seven Pakistani suspects on terror charges on Wednesday in connection with last year's attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, a defense lawyer said.

The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.

Canadian oil and gas company TransGlobe Energy Corp said it plans to raise its 2010 capital budget by 30 percent to $46.1 million.

Sensata Technologies, a Dutch company owned by private equity firm Bain Capital, filed for an initial public offering of up to $500 million on Wednesday.

D1 Oils Plc, a British biofuels technology company, said its board was reviewing strategic options that could include a possible sale or a reverse merger and it may not need new funds until late 2011 under a new business plan.

Though the use of fertility drugs does not seem to generally increase uterine cancer risk, a Danish study identified small increases in risk from certain fertility drugs used for longer duration.

Australian nickel miner Minara Resources Ltd will submit a joint bid with a Chinese firm on Wednesday for BHP Billiton's Ravensthorpe nickel operation, a source familiar with the bid told Reuters.

In a study in older adults, dietary intake of vitamins C and E was linked with muscle strength, leading the researchers to suggest at a meeting in Atlanta this past weekend that a diet high in antioxidants could play an important role in preserving muscle function in older adults

Diedrich Coffee Inc said it determined Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc's enhanced offer is superior to Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc's bid.

General Motors cast around for fresh options for Sweden's loss-making Saab on Wednesday after the collapse of its sale added another dimension to tortuous European restructuring plans.

U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, lifted by positive data on the labor market and housing sector, considered two of the biggest headwinds facing the economy.

Sweden's Ericsson and Austria's Kapsch CarrierCom AG will acquire certain wireless technology assets from Nortel Networks Corp, the bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker said on Wednesday.

Walking away or letting things pass may be an unhealthy way to deal with unfair treatment on the job, research from Sweden shows.

Exercise seems to simultaneously make people hungrier, yet more readily satisfied by a meal -- and differences in these responses from person to person may help explain why some exercisers shed pounds more easily than others, researchers say.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday told the visiting Chinese defense minister that his isolated country's friendship with China was unbreakable, even as ties have been tested by the North's nuclear tests.

China's Sinopec has signed a tentative deal to provide financing of $6.5 billion for oil refinery projects in Iran, two Iranian news agencies reported on Wednesday.

China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is optimistic other allies will send more troops to Afghanistan, backing up an expected sharp increase in U.S. forces, according to a letter to NATO released on Wednesday.

Volkswagen Chairman Ferdinand Piech does not intend to merge truckmakers MAN SE and Scania, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported without giving a source for the information.