IBT Staff Reporter

Abu Dhabi-based Aabar Investments has purchased 40 percent of Daimler AG's stake in electric-car start-up Tesla Motors Inc, with the aim of launching a joint venture, Aabar said on Monday.

A group of companies outlined a massive solar project in North Africa called Desertec. Honda Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Takanobu said on Monday it plans to make a hybrid version of its compact car Fit model and the CR-Z sports car in 2010

Microsoft Corp will release a free version of its dominant Office software that users can access over the Web, catching up with products that arch rival Google Inc launched three years ago.

Stocks rose on Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average up 1 percent, as bank shares advanced following an upgrade of Goldman Sachs Group . and bullish comments from an influential analyst.

Canadian copper miner Quadra Mining Ltd said quarterly production at its Nevada-based Robinson mine and Arizona-based Carlota mine was below expectations, and cut its full-year production outlook for both mines.

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The new H1N1 influenza virus bears a disturbing resemblance to the virus strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, with a greater ability to infect the lungs than common seasonal flu viruses, researchers reported on Monday.

Stocks rose on Monday in a choppy session after influential bank analyst Meredith Whitney upgraded Goldman Sachs Group and sparked hopes corporate quarterly results in the financial sector may be surprisingly strong.

A family doctor and a six-year-old girl have died after catching H1N1 flu, health officials said on Monday, days after the first British death from the infection in an otherwise healthy patient.

Regulators will have powers for the first time to punish banks in the European Union whose pay policies encourage too much risk-taking, under a draft law published by the bloc's executive body on Monday.

With U.S. unemployment at a 20-year high, some Americans are working for free while looking for a job, but experts are split over whether it is a sign of dedication or desperation.

Barclays has hired mergers and acquisitions banker Mark Todd from Citigroup, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday, the latest in a string of hires as the British bank beefs up in European M&A.

Stocks rose on Monday, recovering from an earlier drop, as an analyst's bullish assessment of bank performance lifted financials.

There is a strong chance the United States and other leading economies will start growing again over the next few quarters, but big risks to the outlook remain, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday.

Israel on Monday dismissed and the Palestinians welcomed a call by the European Union's foreign policy chief for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state if negotiators fail to achieve a peace agreement.

Valero Energy Corp said Monday a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit at its 287,000 barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas refinery was back at planned rates following a Friday malfunction.

A defeated candidate in Iran's disputed election has said the Islamic system may face collapse unless it embraces change, in unusually blunt language from a prominent establishment figure.

Aberdeen Asset Management said on Monday it had agreed to sell former Credit Suisse funds with 858 million pounds ($1.38 billion) in assets to Premier Asset Management.

Roche Holding AG's Tarceva cancer drug improved the survival of patients with advanced lung cancer when used immediately after initial chemotherapy, the Swiss group said on Monday.

British Airways has not ruled out a major rights issue to help shore up its balance sheet but analysts see such a move as an absolute last resort and one that could destroy management credibility.

Chinese police shot dead two people on Monday in renewed unrest in the far northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media said, after at least 184 people died in riots last week.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court, begins her confirmation hearings on Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Friends Provident rejected a takeover proposal from Clive Cowdery's Resolution Ltd, saying the entrepreneur's terms were inadequate, his company was opaque and a tie-up would hobble the life insurer's management.

North Korean leader Kim Jong II, 67, has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, according to Seoul's YTN television, the British newspaper Guardian reported on Monday.

President Barack Obama's pick to fill his first U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, Sonia Sotomayor, goes before a Senate hearing on Monday with most people betting she already has enough votes to win confirmation.

Britain's largest gas retailer, Centrica, faced a setback in its battle to take over Venture Production on Monday, when the North Sea gas producer's two largest investors backed management's rejection of the $2 billion bid.

China Eastern Airlines said it will acquire rival Shanghai Airlines, a 9 billion yuan deal ($1.3 billion) which will create a newly capitalized carrier with more than half the air business in China's financial hub.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday, citing information gathered from Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.

Oil prices slipped more than $1 to below $59 a barrel on Monday, hitting their lowest in almost two months on concerns over the state of the global economy.