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Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. said it’s considering an approach for the U.K.-based BMI unit of Deutsche Lufthansa AG that would combine the two operations.
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Slovakia may approve the euro region’s retooled bailout fund after a political storm that will probably topple Prime Minister Iveta Radicova’s governing coalition.
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The rand led a drop among major currencies against the dollar after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said the debt crisis threatens the financial system, sapping demand for riskier assets.
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Oil fell from its highest in more than two weeks in New York before a government vote in Slovakia on the euro area’s bailout fund that may endanger a recovery in the region’s economy.
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Thailand’s worst floods in more than 50 years have reached levels that threaten to overwhelm barriers protecting Bangkok, said Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na- Ranong, who urged residents in the capital to be prepared.
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may give Asia more weight in Russian foreign policy when he returns to the presidency next year, broadening a relationship with China and trying to bridge differences on gas exports.
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A group of executives advising President Barack Obama on jobs is recommending an initiative to attract $1 trillion in foreign direct investment within five years and upgrade the nation’s transportation and energy infrastructure.
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Citigroup Inc. stopped soliciting clients for some retail banking products in Japan as it awaits the outcome of a government investigation into its compliance with local rules, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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The U.K.’s nuclear inspector said there’s no need to scale back operations at existing atomic plants or change the licensing process for new reactors in the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
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Multivitamins and some dietary supplements, used regularly by an estimated 234 million U.S. adults, may do more harm than good, according to a study that tied their use to higher death rates among older women.
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Representative Charles Boustany, the Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee, is pressing the Internal Revenue Service to provide details on its investigations of the nonprofit sector.
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Hollywood at the dawn of talking pictures is cleverly satirized in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1930 comedy ‘Once in a Lifetime,’ now getting an energetic revival at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater.
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The following is a roundup of soccer stories from U.K. newspapers, with clickable links to the Web.
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A Ukrainian court ordered former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko imprisoned for seven years for abuse of power while in office, a judge said today in Kiev.
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