John T. Chambers, chairman and chief executive of Cisco Systems, says he learned an early lesson from Jack Welch: great companies arise from their biggest failures.

Irish Thomas Cook staff stage a sit-in at over redundancy terms after the early closure of its high street operation.

The highest paid bankers should be revealed and the reform of the banking system made more radical, the UK says.

Trading standards officers say consumers are being tricked into buying fake goods by companies pretending to be based in the UK.

Reuters - Switzerland's UBS will not have to pay a fine as part of the settlement of a tax evasion dispute with the United States, two Swiss newspapers reported on Sunday.

Carmaker Nissan unveils its first electric car, taking it closer to its aim to become the first car firm to mass produce the vehicles.

Bad debts and lending levels will be under scrutiny as the UK's four biggest banks release their financial results this week.

Nissan Motor took the wraps off its much-awaited electric car, naming the hatchback Leaf and taking a step toward its goal of leading the industry in the zero-emissions field.

For a variety of reasons, the mobile version of manga has it booming again, giving life ? and bringing a little controversy ? to the venerable Japanese comic form.

What policies can help the world transform a vast environmental promise into reality? There is plenty of cause for pessimism.

Reuters - The two suitors for GM's German unit Opel must improve their bids to win government backing, German Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on Sunday before a Monday GM board meeting likely to focus on Opel.

Top economic officials of the Obama administration gave upbeat assessments of the economy, asserting that the long recession was bottoming out.

Water shortages are making life difficult in Mumbai

Reuters - Wall Street may have momentum on its side this week as the S&P 500 tries to puncture the 1,000 level, but the rally's staying power will depend on whether U.S. data and corporate earnings provide more signs of economic stabilization.

Reuters - Shares in web retailer eBay could be worth 30 percent more than current prices as a promised turnaround in its core online-auction business begins to yield results, weekly financial paper Barron's reported.

Nissan Motor took the wraps off its much-awaited electric car, naming the hatchback Leaf and taking a step toward its goal of leading the industry in the zero-emissions field.

Canada allows the extradition to Germany of a businessman who figured in a Kohl-era political fund-raising scandal.

A Catholic bank in Germany apologises after admitting it had stocks in defence, tobacco and birth control firms.

Reuters - Shares in web retailer eBay could be worth 30 percent more than current prices as a promised turnaround in its core online-auction business begins to yield results, weekly financial paper Barron's reported.

The usual Army ads have been tweaked to appeal to achievement-oriented college graduates who could qualify for one of its officer training programs.

After an Indian court ordered the arrest of Warren Anderson, Union Carbide said he should not be blamed for a gas leak that killed 10,000 people in 1984.

?Funny People? sputtered at the weekend box office, weakening Judd Apatow?s batting average as a director and continuing a slump at Universal Pictures.

Talk magazine was introduced with a decadent party attended by hordes of media luminaries. No one could see what the Internet would soon do to the business.

Nearly 200 news outlets have agreed to post videos on the Web site and split the revenue from ads alongside them.

Its search engine now in the hands of Microsoft, Yahoo intends to focus on display ads, content and mobile services technology.

In June, The Weekly Standard was handed from one conservative billionaire, Rupert Murdoch, to another, Philip F. Anschutz, for about $1 million.

The Saint John Telegraph-Journal said Prime Minister Stephen Harper had pocketed a communion wafer at a funeral, a claim it had to retract.

A star who advised hundreds of companies in the dot-com boom has been quietly counseling about 20 tech businesses since March of last year.

The company that made the watch that the astronauts wore during the first Moon landing is running ads with the president who endorsed space exploration.

The newspaper hired a clown to roam the corridors of the New York State Capitol, making the media circus literal.

The maker of Krystexxa said regulators were concerned about changes to the manufacturing process.

Nissan Motor took the wraps off its much-awaited electric car, naming the hatchback Leaf and taking a step toward its goal of leading the industry in the zero-emissions field.

The merging of thrifty Bank of America and outsized Merrill Lynch has caused some institutional differences over employee bonuses.

But the big unanswered question is whether consumers will increase their savings or support economic growth through spending.

A star who advised hundreds of companies in the dot-com boom has been quietly counseling about 20 tech businesses since March of last year.

The company that made the watch that the astronauts wore during the first Moon landing is running ads with the president who endorsed space exploration.

A survey also reported that cheap eateries and cafes were more popular than ever among youths.

The option of acting against companies around the world that supply Iran with 40 percent of its gasoline has been broached with European allies and Israel, officials from those countries said.