The deadline of Monday night took car shoppers by surprise and prodded fence sitters into action.

How comments from a boss led to a customer backlash

Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her regret at General Motors' failure to choose a buyer for its German unit Opel, and said that a decision was 'urgently' needed for the carmaker's future.

The U.S. and Europe are zeroing in on numbered Swiss accounts. Jason Bourne may need a new bank.

Telecoms giant BT closes its graduate recruitment programme as it continues to cut costs in the downturn.

Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her regret at General Motors' failure to choose a buyer for its German unit Opel, and said that a decision was 'urgently' needed for the carmaker's future.

Chinese oil refiner Sinopec sees a four-fold increase in profit, boosted by changes in state price controls.

People in the music industry tend to listen to Thom Yorke, for his band, Radiohead, has cultivated a reputation as one of the most future-proof bands around.

The British company Omlet has seen sales of the Eglu, its chicken hutch, roughly double each year since it came to the market in 2004.

Reuters - Is it game over for the recession? Or will consumers stay in hibernation?

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said she would continue with plans to save Opel after lamenting that the American company?s board had failed to resolve its fate.

Reuters - Qwest Communications International Inc said it has eliminated tens of thousands of dollars of annual payments to cover expenses of its chief executive and other top officials.

Private equity investors don?t like to see their cash disappear, but even deals that turn sour may not kill overall returns as long as fund managers avoid taking concentrated bets.

While More magazine proudly serves women over 40, it is trying to lower its average reader age. Advertisers would like to reach younger consumers.

Chancellor Angela Merkel says she favors the Canadian company Magna International in the bidding for the German unit of G.M.

Be it ever so humble, there?s no place like home ? unless the owners were hoping to flip the joint and cash in.

Replacing ?Today?s Papers? three times a day will be a recap of the news that acknowledges the faster news cycle.

The price of a real estate ad in one major pricing plan has more than doubled since the last quarter of 2008.

Recession bites hard in southern Serbia

Almost 48 years after it was first published, ?Mastering the Art of French Cooking? by Julia Child is finally topping the best-seller list.

Ultrafast computerized stock trading has become one of the most competitive and controversial techniques on Wall Street.

Economists have long predicted that China would eventually surpass the U.S. in influence. That change may be arriving sooner than expected.

Van Zeck has been helping to manage the government?s credit line since 1971. He?s been a busy man the last few months.

Jed S. Rakoff, a United States District Court judge in Manhattan, is not one to rubber-stamp administrative decisions.

The universe of reviews, ratings and recommendations online open a tantalizing window on the collective consciousness.

The new section has articles on finding strippers and getting checked for sexually transmitted diseases, as well as photos of local singles.

The commission is planning two days of workshops addressing the question of how journalism will survive the Internet age.

The 24- to-28-page weekly will be sent free to 10,000 people in the business in New York and will sell subscriptions for $240 a year.

National copyright agencies, which charge fees to publishers, see the proposed deal as a threat to their income.

At a time when networks favor internal producers, the company is heading into the fall season with an unusual 45 shows in production.

Backed with $5 million from venture capitalists, the Web site is creating an almanac of every athlete and team, no matter how obscure.

The doctor, James Heilman, defended his decision to publicize the images on Wikipedia and demystify the secretive Rorschach test.

Japan?s Nikkei stock average rose 3 percent on Monday, buoyed by hopes for a global economic recovery that boosted U.S. stocks to new highs for the year.

The telecommunications company, based in Denver, said it would save tens of thousands of dollars.

?Inglourious Basterds,? the risky Quentin Tarantino picture, sold a stout $37.6 million in tickets over the weekend.

The tour, approved over the objections of the singer?s mother, is expected to open in London, where his comeback tour was to begin.

Tyler Brûlé, an advertising executive and magazine editor, works with what he calls patrons to build up his travel publication.

Reuters - News Corp's Dow Jones & Co Inc is only in the early stages of exploring a sale of its stock market index business and a sales prospectus has not gone out yet, a source familiar with the matter said.

Ultrafast computerized trading has become one of the most competitive and controversial techniques on Wall St.

Reuters - Asian stocks jumped more than 2 percent on Monday, lifting world shares to a 10-month high, after upbeat U.S. housing data and optimistic comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spurred buying of riskier assets.