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LONDON (AP) -- The Nationwide Building Society, Britain's second-largest mortgage lender, said Monday it is taking over two smaller rivals that had sought shelter from the fallout of the global credit crunch. Nationwide said it will absorb the ...
Read moreUK's Nationwide buys mortgage rivals - CNN Money
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Lewis Hamilton insists he did nothing wrong in his tussle with Kimi Raikkonen, which ended in his being stripped of a Belgian Grand Prix win. Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen vie for the lead of the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa ...
Read moreDemoted Hamilton protests his innocence - CNN
LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown held the first Cabinet meeting outside London in nearly 90 years on Monday, seeking to revive his flagging political fortunes amid a steepening economic downtown. Brown hosted the meeting of senior ministers in a ...
Read moreBritish Cabinet holds rare meeting outside London - Philadelphia Inquirer
LONDON : The London Stock Exchange suffered its worst systems glitch in eight years on Monday, forcing the world's third largest share market to suspend trading for most of the day and infuriating its users. The problem occurred as markets rebounded ...
Read moreOutage cripples London Stock Exchange - International Herald Tribune
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is today facing one of its most disastrous days in recent history after re-opening the market after seven hours of suspension. Trading resumed at just after 4.00pm, just half an hour before the London Stock Exchange ...
Read moreLondon reopens after seven-hour suspension - Times Online
A large computerised display of the British FTSE 100 index shows the figure flat-lining An embarrassing computer failure at the London Stock Exchange left City traders unable to cash in on a worldwide stock market boom for much of today. A US ...
Read moreGlitch hits London shares' big day - The Independent
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has held the first Cabinet meeting outside London in nearly 90 years, seeking to revive his flagging political fortunes amid an economic downtown. Brown hosted the meeting of senior ministers Monday in Britain's second ...
Read moreBritain's Cabinet holds rare meeting outside London to discuss country ... - MSN UK News
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria is closing its probe into a Cold War killing, the murder of dissident Georgi Markov in London, but an investigator said no evidence existed to back up the theory that he was stabbed with a poison-tipped umbrella. Under ...
Read moreBulgaria casts doubt on London "poisoned umbrella" killing - MSN UK News
Trading on the London Stock Exchange has been halted after a computer system failed on one of the most frantic days of trading so far this year. In an embarrassment for the LSE, the exchange said that no orders can be entered or executions of those ...
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange trading derailed by computer crash on frenzied ... - Daily Telegraph
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- London Stock Exchange Group Plc, operator of the world's fourth-largest market, broke down on the busiest morning for European equities in nine months, hurting clients who trade an average $17.5 billion a day. Trading resumed ...
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