David Cameron says that trade unions have 'scented weakness' in the government's response to the British Airways strike.

David Cameron says that trade unions have 'scented weakness' in the government's response to the British Airways strike.

The environmental spotlight is not just on parliaments and presidents, but on boardrooms and executive suites.

Chinese car maker Geely has signed a deal to buy Volvo from US car giant Ford, a Volvo spokesman says.

Lloyds Banking Group has announced plans to pay its chief executive, Eric Daniels, a bigger bonus.

Reuters - Sinopec (0386.HK), Asia's top oil refiner, will buy a stake in upstream assets in Angola for $2.46 billion and said it wanted more such deals, which could shield it from high oil prices that hit margins in the fourth quarter.

AFP - Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding signed a deal Sunday to buy the troubled Volvo brand from US auto giant Ford, China's state media reported.

Ford Motor reached an agreement to sell its Volvo subsidiary to a Chinese conglomerate for $1.8 billion.

With global markets on the upswing, experts say that the wireless industry is poised for a wave of mergers that could reshape it.

As of early Sunday, at least 133 British Airways flights departing from Heathrow Airport near London had been canceled, according to the airline?s Web site.

France-Soir is trying to prove that, even in a shrinking market, there is room for a tabloid with populist sensibilities and a mass-market reach.

AP - Zhejiang Geely Holding Group signed a binding deal Sunday to buy Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo Cars unit for $1.8 billion, allowing the independent Chinese automaker to expand its foothold in Europe.

AFP - President Barack Obama's administration on Friday unveiled revamped plans to help millions of US homeowners struggling to stay afloat amid high unemployment and slumping house prices.

AFP - WTO chief Pascal Lamy on Sunday told EU participants to sort out first who will argue for what at June's G20 summit in Toronto, otherwise 'nobody' will listen.

AFP - Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding sealed a 1.8-billion-dollar deal on Sunday to buy Volvo Cars as the Chinese company unleashed its global ambitions with what it called a Swedish 'tiger'.

Ford Motor reached an agreement to sell its Volvo subsidiary to a Chinese conglomerate for $1.8 billion.

Rescuers search for the managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority after his glider crashes in Morocco.

Who benefits from big business's carbon offsetting?

What happened to the green jobs bonanza?

AP - Investors are betting that small-caps will be the stock market's standouts as the economy improves.

The Christian Science Monitor - Faced with the gravest crisis yet in the history of the decade-old euro, European Union leaders met in Brussels last week to thrash out how to protect the currency’s Achilles’ heel: Greece.

AP - Grasshopper infestations have taken on mythic tones here on the arid prairie of northeastern Wyoming — they blanket highways, eat T-shirts off clotheslines and devour nearly every scrap of vegetation on ranches and farms.

AFP - Kuwait's private low-cost Jazeera Airways said on Sunday it posted a loss of 28.5 million dollars in 2009 compared with a net profit of 15.6 million dollars the previous year.

AFP - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Sunday that women's equality should be a part of the European Union's new 10-year plan to make the bloc's economy more competitive.

Ford reached an agreement to sell its Volvo subsidiary to a Chinese conglomerate for $1.8 billion, in the clearest confirmation yet of China?s global ambitions in the auto industry.

Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev, the father-son team that reversed the fortunes of The Evening Standard, now will try do it again for The Independent.

The top 10 banks in the United States pay sharply lower interest rates on deposits than smaller banks do.

When Google said it would leave mainland China, it struck a blow for free speech ? and set a high standard for itself.

AP - Royal Dutch Shell PLC is selling its century-old distribution and retail business in New Zealand, including hundreds of gas stations and a share in the country's only oil refinery, for 696 million New Zealand dollars ($490 million).

Once considered the innovator in the electronics business, the company has found itself playing catch-up for years, an embarrassment it hopes to end.

Judging from stocks, one would think the economy was poised for a comeback. But the government is planning to pull the plug on its economic life support.

OgilvyOne seeks the world?s greatest salesperson in a YouTube contest to best market an ordinary, red brick.

Searches for ?Tiananmen,? ?Falun Gong? and ?corruption? increased by more than 10 times in Hong Kong on the day that Google began offering uncensored Chinese-language search results.

Ford reached an agreement to sell its Volvo subsidiary to a Chinese conglomerate for $1.8 billion, in the clearest confirmation yet of China?s global ambitions in the auto industry.

Schrute Farms, the agrotourism bed and breakfast from the NBC comedy ?The Office,? has been a marketing bonanza for TripAdvisor.

Although Cuba remains closed to American investment, entrepreneurs in both countries are considering the island?s profit-making potential.

Mikhail D. Prokhorov, expected to become the Nets majority owner next month, said that he would ?take the worst team of the league and turn it to be the best.?

As workers recalibrate their expectations amid the recession, companies are reaping unexpected rewards.

Rescuers were searching a Moroccan lake for the aircraft of Sheik Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the younger brother of the ruler of Abu Dhabi.

The only U.S. golf course designed by Tiger Woods is trying to overcome construction delays and weak home sales.

Jezdimir Vasiljevic faces trial on charges of embezzling more than $38 million and stealing around $130 million from investors in his bank.

Mr. Frey was the force behind a car that was spunky and affordable. Not to mention that cool horse.

AP - A Shanghai court is due to rule Monday on bribery and commercial secrets charges against four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto — a case seen as a barometer of China's treatment of foreign business in a time of rising trade friction.

AP - Asian markets were mixed in early trading Monday, after shares in New York on Friday gave back midday gains on concerns over whether a recent rally could be sustained.

AP - Yoko Komazawa had been at the Tokyo International Anime Fair for nearly six hours when she fell in love with a brown-and-white stuffed panda — a character in one of the fair's featured cartoons.

With high expectations for the tablet, Apple?s biggest challenge will be achieving the mass-market penetration and cultural impact of the iPod and iPhone.

Later this year, consumers will begin to find computers, TVs and gaming systems that they can control through hand and body gestures, enabled with chips from Canesta.

A New Yorker article reports that ABC showed footage of an alleged killing in Zambia in the 1990s ? and did not inform Zambian authorities about the shooting.

In February, the staff of about 30 ? editors, reporters and producers ? created the April issue of Inc. outside of the business magazine?s office in Downtown Manhattan.

The proportion of online retailers requiring three or more clicks to unsubscribe from their e-mail lists has grown more than fivefold since 2008.

The $1.8 billion purchase by the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group highlights China?s determination to capture market share around the globe.

At least 134 British Airways flights scheduled to depart from Heathrow Airport near London on Sunday have been canceled, about 40 percent of the total.

The global financial crisis slowed the pace of deals, but it has picked up this year and is on course to grow 50 percent.

AP - Asian stock markets were mostly higher Monday as stronger earnings from Chinese companies and a deal to provide Greece a financial safety net helped buoy sentiment.

Reuters - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is not yet on board with Washington Mutual Inc's bankruptcy reorganization plan, including a massive tax refund to JPMorgan Chase & Co , according to the company and a Wall Street Journal report.

AFP - Infrastructure investor Infratil said Monday it had joined with the NZ Superannuation Fund to buy oil giant Shell's New Zealand distribution and retail operations, along with a refinery stake.