Stakes mount in run-up to UC Rusal listing - at FT.com - 26 minutes ago
The stakes are mounting in Oleg Deripaska's bid to list his UC Rusalaluminium group in Hong Kong and Paris by the end of the year as the clock ticks closer to a November 19 deadline.

Takeover talk helps lift market mood - at FT.com - 41 minutes ago
The chatter of takeovers real and potential gave added pep to markets on Monday morning, as investors reacted with relief to Wall Street's initially muddled but ultimately sanguine response to worse-than-expected US jobs data.

Sonova in $489m Advanced Bionics deal - at FT.com - 41 minutes ago
Sonova, the Swiss hearing aid manufacturer, on Monday made a renewed push for global sales dominance with an agreed $489m cash offer for Advanced Bionics Corporation of the US.

GE scraps ambitious India target - at FT.com - 51 minutes ago
General Electric India is resetting its targets from the ambitious $8bn in revenue a year by 2010 that it forecast three years ago as it juggles businesses affected by the global slowdown.

Cadbury expected to receive hostile bid - at FT.com - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
The board of Cadbury, the UK food group, is preparing to meet on Monday amid expectations that Kraft will go hostile with its takeover offer.

Ecological entrepreneurs straddle the Green Line - at FT.com - 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Cyprus has dense development around its coastline, but despite that it offers plenty of attractive pursuits for environmentally minded tourists.

Personal view: lessons in respect and tolerance - at FT.com - 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Just before 7:45 am on weekdays, eight-year-old Ali climbs the marble steps of a state primary school on Phaneromeni Square, next to the Green Line that divides the walled city of Nicosia, and disappears behind the columns of a magnificent stone façade imitating the entrance of an ancient Greek temple