AFP - The president of Mitsubishi Motors has not ruled out a future capital tie-up with France's Peugeot, reports said Sunday.

The Walt Disney Company pulled its ABC station from Cablevision, potentially leaving about three million cable customers in the New York area without access to the Academy Awards.

AP - Dana Gas said Sunday it had made two new gas discoveries in Egypt, finds that will further boost the United Arab Emirates-based producer's extensive holdings in the country.

AP - Almost-complete results show voters in Iceland have resoundingly rejected a $5.3 billion plan to pay back Britain and the Netherlands for debts caused by the collapse of an Icelandic Internet bank.

AP - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is heading to Paris, the third stop of his four-city tour seeking firmer European Union and U.S. support for harsh austerity measures that have sparked violent protests.

AP - Voters in tiny Iceland defied their parliament and international pressure, resoundingly rejecting a $5.3 billion plan to repay Britain and the Netherlands for debts spawned by the collapse of an Icelandic bank.

Reuters - Portugal's long-term budget austerity plan encompasses spending cuts via reducing tax breaks and containing public sector wages, but entails no Greece-style wage cuts or tax hikes, local media said on Sunday.

Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) could freeze new car launches this year if it is not satisfied the accelerator problem that forced a mass recall of its vehicles has been solved, according to the Sunday Telegraph.

Formula One starts new season with budget pressures

Counting the cost of the earthquake on the economy

Russia hopes a scrappage scheme will lift car industry

Virgin Money says it will charge customers a fee for current accounts when the firm launches banking services later this year.

With 100 days to the World Cup, South Africans talk about their hopes and fears for the tournament

With obesity on the rise in Europe, Nestlé is betting that Europeans are ready to embrace a concept that has proved successful in North America.

As Microsoft complies with new European rules to offer a choice of browsers to Windows users, smaller browsers are getting a boost.

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy offered Greece 'resolute' European support Sunday and vowed to wage a determined fight to deter speculation against the euro.

AP - Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's trip down the rabbit hole drew huge crowds, as 'Alice in the Wonderland' earned a whopping $116.3 million in its opening weekend — a record for a 3-D film.

AP - The relationship between the dollar and stocks that helped define last year's stock market rally is over.

Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy promised Greece on Sunday that euro zone countries would help it overcome its financial problems and vowed a crackdown on financial speculators Athens blames for its woes.

AFP - European governments are ready to help Greece pull itself out of its financial crisis 'if necessary', French President Nicolas said Sunday following talks with the Greek prime minister.

AP - The average price of regular gasoline in the United States is up 9.58 cents over a two-week period to $2.73.

Showing the depth of their rage at bankers and the government, Icelanders overwhelmingly said no to a plan to reimburse customers of a failed bank.

AP - Speculators beware: The euro zone's biggest powers will back Greece through the debt crisis that has jeopardized all 16 nations in the common currency, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Sunday.

AP - Supermarket workers at Stop & Shop in southern New England have ratified a contract that ends weeks of difficult negotiations over wages and benefits.

Reuters - American International Group Inc was closing in on a deal on Sunday to sell its foreign life insurance unit to MetLife Inc for about $15 billion, in a transaction that would ultimately leave AIG with more than 20 percent of MetLife, sources familiar with the situation said.

AFP - African economies are recovering from the global downturn faster than the International Monetary Fund's forecasts, director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Sunday.

AP - Togo's top opposition candidate was pelted with tear gas for a second time Sunday as he vowed to take to the streets every day in protest of what he says was an election rigged to favor the son of the country's longtime dictator.

AP - New ads for troubled automaker Toyota Motor Corp. are skipping the apologies and easing back into sales pitches — too soon, some say.

The American International Group was close to completing a deal to sell a big life insurance unit to MetLife for about $15.5 billion, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on Sunday, in what would be a second big transaction in one week to help repay its taxpayer-financed rescue.

As The National Enquirer chased reports of an affair involving John Edwards, it strung together a series of scoops and earned a little respect along the way.

France's President Sarkozy says his country will stand 'resolute' with Greece as it imposes economic austerity measures.

Reuters - AIG was closing in on a deal on Sunday to sell its foreign life insurance unit to MetLife Inc for about $15 billion in cash and stock, in a transaction that would ultimately leave it with more than 20 percent of MetLife, sources familiar with the matter said.

The American International Group agreed on Sunday to sell a big life insurance unit to MetLife for about $15.5 billion, people briefed on the matter told DealBook, in what would be a second big transaction in one week to help repay its taxpayer-financed rescue.

The show, to be staged at the New York City Center, reflects efforts by media companies to go beyond traditional realms of the printed page or TV set.

Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. But in the Internet age of instant publishing, what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story?

The world's leading companies are failing to make the most of their female workforce, a World Economic Forum report says.

The CBI is urging ministers to deliver a 'convincing' plan for balancing public finances by 2016, earlier than planned.

Up to 270,000 staff are to stage a 48-hour walkout in a dispute over cuts to public sector redundancy terms.

Plans by the UK's biggest pub company to convert a community pub into a housing development are halted following a BBC investigation.

The housing market may have been fluctuating, but the most exclusive street in England and Wales remains unchanged.

The latest deals leave the American International Group with no obvious sales to raise the money to pay the rest of its debt, roughly $50 billion, to the U.S.

As they vet potential candidates, Lawrence H. Summers, director of the National Economic Council, and Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, are balancing their own desires with political pressures from within and outside the White House.

After a decade of near-death experiences, the Internet music service is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public.

A tentative agreement restores WABC to about three million cable customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, letting them see the Academy Awards telecast.

EBay, recovering from unprofitable quarters and falling market share, has recast its site to make it more attractive to new kinds of shoppers, like the carbon conscious.

Unemployment and public anger over bailouts remain high, but aspiring bankers find they can now get a foot in the door.

The Treasury Department will issue a general license for the export of free personal Internet services and software geared toward Iran, Cuba and Sudan.

New screenings of a 1968 documentary, ?The Great Charlie Chan,? have revived discussions of how Hollywood portrays Asian-Americans.

The hunger for 3-D pictures, a blockbuster publicity campaign and curiosity about a performance by Johnny Depp pushed ?Alice in Wonderland? to No. 1 at the weekend box office.

Though girls still have more cellphones than boys, the gap is about half as large as it was in 2005.

France has not only weathered the global economic storm but has emerged as one of the strongest economies in Europe.

Reuters - AIG was closing in on a deal on Sunday to sell its foreign life insurance unit to MetLife Inc for about $15.5 billion in cash and stock, leaving it with a substantial minority stake in MetLife, sources familiar with the matter said.