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Oil hovered above $59 a barrel Tuesday in Asia after investors took heart from signs the U.S. recession is easing. Benchmark crude for June delivery was up 10 cents to $59.13 a barrel midday in Singapore in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile... Related: Asia - Singapore - New York - Business - Recession

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Scottsdale-based P.F. Chang's China Bistro plans to open 30 restaurants in Mexico over 10 years.

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Todd Anthony Perea had just left his film-editing job and was looking forward to spending Saturday night relaxing at his Brentwood home. At 6:41 p.m., he was driving his Mazda south on Martin Luther King Jr. Way at Aileen Street in North Oakland just as a 41-...

DETROIT (Reuters) - After 100 years in business and 10 months of frenzied but failed restructuring, General Motors Corp is weeks from the bankruptcy filing experts say will be required to complete the Obama administration's bid to reshape a fallen icon of American industry.

World's digital content equivalent to stack of books stretching from Earth to Pluto 10 timesThe world's store of digital content is now the equivalent of one full top-of-the-range iPod for every two people on the planet, following the explosion of social networking sites, internet-enabled mobile phones and government surveillance.At 487bn gigabytes (GB), if the world's rapidly expanding digital content were printed and bound into books it would form a stack that would stretch from Earth to Pluto 10 times. As more people join the digital tribe - increasingly through internet-enabled mobile phones - the world's digital output is increasing at such a rate that those stacks of books are rising quicker than Nasa's fastest space rocket.The large files from digital cameras and the world's burgeoning army of surveillance cameras account for a significant proportion of the digital universe. The rapid increase in so-called machine to machine communications - such as when an Oyster card is touche

Daniel Carasso, whose father named Danone yoghurt after him in 1919 and who set up the brand in France 10 years later, died on Sunday aged 103, French food group Danone said. Carasso, born in 1905 ...