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Meanwhile, AstraZeneca is launching a research fund with the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Chinese gold and silver jewellery sales in April dropped 30% from a year ago.

Ukraine offered to pay $4bn to Gazprom if it reduces the price it is demanding from Kiev for gas supplies

Manchester United post record third-quarter revenues.

It is the second inter-dealer broker firm to be fined for Libor misconduct

How UK company founders missed out on the slice of a lucrative pie

Elsewhere, a raft of financials are preparing for Scotland possible breaking away from the UK

Lloyds says 'executive pay is strongly linked to shareholders objectives'

Hot favourite to be Egypt's next president calls on the United States to help him fight terrorism and grow the economy

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UAE has showered Egypt's interim government and army with financial aid since the Islamist president was ousted

World's fourth-largest oil consumer seeks to battle air pollution in its cities.

Football and cricket are the sports most threatened by criminal gangs, says the ICSS

The London Stock Exchange's latest results also lifted by LCH.Clearnet Purchase.

This is WPP's second South African acquisition in two weeks after it snapped up Quirk

Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said there has been 'no contact, no conversation'

HMRC and Whitehall are using new measures to calculate tax recovery from five years ago.

Lloyds gained government support to pay bonuses worth 200% of salaries.

Riots in Vietnam mark a dangerous moment for Sino-Vietnamese relations

Russia's major firms want roubles not dollars as Russia's role in Ukraine crisis risks deeper sanctions

Rise in self-employment could mean there is an overstatement in the labour market recovery

Thousands of Vietnamese rioted and set fire to Taiwanese factories in protest over China's land grab.

TSB listing expected by end of June this year.

On track to deliver £10m cost savings over the full year

Standard Life Chairman Gerry Grimstone said the Yes campaign has not given the 'fine print' over possible independence

Long-running dispute between Kurdistan and Iraq has held up exports of Kurdish oil in Turkish city Ceyhan.

Kuwait announces five year deal that will support its energy demands during peak-usage summer months.

Vince Cable adds Pfizer's open letter was the starting point for negotiations, not a binding proposal

Russian economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev says GDP likely to shrink for second straight quarter