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Imperial Tobacco sees profits at lower end of range
LONDON (Reuters) - Imperial Tobacco
April 30, 2013, 6:18 pmsaid it expects full year earnings per share to be at the lower end of its 4-8 percent target range, as the Davidoff and Gauloises cigarette maker pos... -
ASOS upbeat on outlook as profits rise
LONDON (Reuters) - British online fashion retailer ASOS
April 30, 2013, 6:16 pmposted an 11 percent rise in first half profit and remained positive on its outlook for the year, saying trading momentum was str... 
Carphone Warehouse buys out Best Buy from joint venture
LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse
April 30, 2013, 6:11 pmsaid it was buying out its joint venture partner Best Buy Co Inc for 471 million pounds, ending a five-year rela... 
German consumer sentiment brightest in more than 5-1/2 yrs
By Annika Breidthardt
April 30, 2013, 6:07 pm
BERLIN (Reuters) - German consumer sentiment rose to its highest level since October 2007 heading into May as consumers count on rising wages and as a bailout for ...-
Japan's SoftBank to brief on Sprint deal, gets Intel CEO's support
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Corp will hold a news conference on Tuesday about its deal to acquire 70 percent of U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp as investors seek clues on whether it mi...
April 30, 2013, 5:48 pm 
Insight - Why did Cypriot banks keep buying Greek bonds?
By Michele Kambas, Stephen Grey and Stelios Orphanides
April 30, 2013, 5:36 pm
NICOSIA (Reuters) - One day last October, a memory stick containing special software for deleting data was placed into a desktop c...
Tokyo governor 'sorry' over Islam gaffe
TOKYO (AFP) - The governor of Tokyo apologised to the Muslim world Tuesday after saying Islamic countries have nothing in common but Allah and "fighting with each other".
April 30, 2013, 5:18 pm
Investigators cast a wider net in Boston
The FBI has found female DNA on at least one of the two homemade bombs detonated during the Boston Marathon on April 15.
April 30, 2013, 4:57 pm
UBS's private bank fuels forecast-beating profit
By Katharina Bart
April 30, 2013, 4:55 pm
ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS'sprivate bank attracted the most customer money for six years in the first quarter, recovering from a poor end to 2012 and back... -
Chinese activist's nephew 'denied medical parole'
BEIJING (AFP) - The jailed nephew of Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied medical parole despite suffering from life-threatening acute appendicitis, the prisoner's father said.
April 30, 2013, 4:54 pm 
Sydney's Bondi Beach to receive green makeover
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's Bondi Beach is set for a major makeover, with concrete car parks to be replaced with grass, trees and a boardwalk in an ambitious overhaul of the world-renowned site.
April 30, 2013, 4:53 pm
Japan household spending at nine-year high as "Abenomics" gains momentum
By Stanley White and Kaori Kaneko
April 30, 2013, 4:07 pm
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's household spending surged in March at the fastest pace in nine years in a sign that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bold efforts ...
Strip China surgeon of Australian award: academics
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian academics are calling for a Chinese surgeon accused of harvesting organs from prisoners to be stripped of a University of Sydney honorary professorship.
April 30, 2013, 4:02 pm
Anger builds as Bangladesh gives up hope of more survivors
By Ruma Paul and Serajul Quadir
April 30, 2013, 3:58 pm
DHAKA (Reuters) - Rescue officials in Bangladesh said on Tuesday they had given up hope of finding more survivors from a garment factory complex that col...
Brazil priest excommunicated over support for gays
SAO PAULO (AFP) - A Catholic priest in southeastern Brazil was excommunicated on Monday after publicly resigning from his duties to protest against the church's opposition to homosexuality.
April 30, 2013, 3:52 pm
S. Korea spy agency raided over poll scandal: report
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean prosecutors raided the country's spy agency as part of a probe into allegations that it meddled in the presidential election in December, a news report said.
April 30, 2013, 3:50 pm
Unilever offers $5.4 billion to raise stake in Indian unit
By Tony Munroe and Swati Pandey
April 30, 2013, 3:41 pm
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever Plcoffered to pay as much as $5.4 billion (3.4 billion pounds... 
Mum forced 14-year-old to get pregnant
A woman desperate for another child forced her 14-year-old daughter to get pregnant using syringes of donor sperm, a British judge says.
April 30, 2013, 3:32 pm-
Alleged Aussie 'Robin Hood' on trial in US
Accused "Robin Hood"-style Australian bank robber Corey Donaldson has gone on trial in the US city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
April 30, 2013, 3:21 pm 
Ponytail stuntman dies on a zip-line in India
A daredevil who held the Guinness World Record for distance travelled on a zip-line while hanging by his hair has died while performing a new stunt.
April 30, 2013, 3:14 pm
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