Currency factors weigh on retailer H&M's Q2 profit
Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB on Wednesday said profits fell by 11 percent in the second quarter due to the strong Swedish krona and ...
European car sales hit 20-year low for May
European car sales had their worst May in 20 years as the region's recession drags on, the European automakers' association said Tuesday.
Porsche family buys back stake from Qatar fund
Descendants of German automobile entrepreneur Ferdinand Porsche have bought back a 10 percent stake in their holding company from Qatar's sovereign ...
Simon Thornton wins playoff in Saint-Omer
Simon Thornton of Ireland beat Tjaart Van der Walt on the first hole of a playoff at the Najeti Hotels Open to win his first European Tour title ...

Century later, Ouimet's Open win still resonates
At the entrance to the Putterham Meadows golf course stands a statue of 1913 U.S. Open champion Francis Ouimet. Also in bronze, dwarfed by the bag he ...
Thornton shoots 65 for share of lead in France
Simon Thornton of Ireland made a hole in one to shoot 6-under 65 and share a one-stroke lead with Tjaart Van der Walt of South Africa and Baptiste ...
Dinwiddie, Van der Walt share lead in France
Robert Dinwiddie shot a 5-under 66 to share the lead with Tjaart Van der Walt of South Africa after the second round of the Najeti Hotels Open on ...

Asian stocks rebound after Tokyo drop
Asian stocks rebounded Friday from Tokyo's sharp decline after investors were encouraged by positive U.S. economic news. Oil stayed above $96 a barrel ...

Gaza suffers drop in foreign aid over Syrian war
A refugee from Syria recently opened a bakery here, drawing long lines of customers eager to taste meat and cheese pastries with the special flavors ...

Cooper CEO says buyer committed to US operations
A tire maker whose main market is in India is buying Ohio's Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. for $2.2 billion and making a commitment to maintain the ...

UK to start regulating e-cigarettes as medicines
Britain will start regulating electronic cigarettes and other products containing nicotine as medicines, according to the country's top regulator.
Fiat: supplier delays will force shutdowns
Italian carmaker Fiat says it will temporarily stop production at some European car plants in the coming days due to insufficient deliveries of ...
Zara owner sees lowest Q1 profit growth in 4 years
Spanish clothes retailer Inditex, which owns the Zara store chain, is blaming currency fluctuations for its lowest first-quarter growth in four years.
Judge sides with GM, dismisses Spyker lawsuit
A U.S. judge has dismissed a $3 billion lawsuit filed by Dutch car maker Spyker against General Motors Co. Spyker sued GM in August, accusing it of ...

Chinese taste for baccarat drives Macau boom
In the nearly three dozen casinos in Macau, the world's biggest gambling market, there's only one game that matters: baccarat. Almost all of Macau's ...

Study sheds light on origins of French winemaking
Scrapings from the bottoms of 2,500-year-old pottery containers have shed new light on the origins of French winemaking. A team of archaeologists led ...
Italy expresses concern about China wine probe
Italian Premier Enrico Letta says he will follow China's decision to launch a trade investigation into European wine "with maximum attention" given ...

Chrysler to recall 630,000 SUVs worldwide
Just two days after refusing a government request to recall 2.7 million older-model Jeeps, Chrysler has decided to do two other recalls totaling ...

Bangladesh collapse survivor leaves hospital
A 19-year-old seamstress who survived for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed garment factory building left the hospital Thursday with a new job at ...

China's top butcher tries to sell US on takeover
At an age when most Chinese executives are long retired, the country's top hog butcher is taking on a daunting new job persuading Americans to allow ...
Pirelli and Mercedes to face FIA Tribunal
A tire testing session involving Mercedes and Pirelli that was criticized by rival Formula One teams will be referred to the FIA's international ...

US writer A.M. Homes wins Women's Fiction Prize
American novelist A.M. Homes has won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction with her sixth novel, "May We Be Forgiven." Homes beat bookmakers' favorite ...

Turkey's tourism industry shrugs off protest fears
Turkey, a largely Muslim nation that bridges Europe and Asia, has a flourishing tourist industry based on ancient historical sites and ruins, a ...

ITC bans iPhone 4 imports
A U.S. trade agency on Tuesday issued a ban on imports of Apple's iPhone 4 and a variant of the iPad 2 after finding the devices violate a patent held ...