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BBC:Eurozone crisis: Osborne warns of impact on UK jobs
Eurozone crisis: Osborne warns of impact on UK jobs
Chancellor George Osborne has said the financial crisis gripping the eurozone is hitting British jobs and growth.
As Italy agreed austerity measures demanded by the EU and Greece's new prime minister took office, Mr Osborne said the situation remained "very difficult and dangerous".
Despite Friday's events, David Cameron said there was still a "big question mark" over the eurozone's future.
Labour's Ed Miliband said the PM should demand an urgent meeting of EU leaders.
BBC:Argentina condemns Prince William Falklands posting
Argentina condemns Prince William Falklands posting
The Duke of Cambridge's posting to the Falkland Islands has been condemned by Argentina as a "provocative act".
Britain says Prince William's deployment for training as a helicopter rescue pilot is routine.
But Argentine official Sebastian Brugo Marco said Argentina could not ignore the "political content" of the mission.
The prince's tour next year will come shortly before the 30th anniversary of Argentina's defeat in the Falklands War.
BBC:EMI sells music unit to Universal for £1.2bn
EMI sells music unit to Universal for £1.2bn
UK music firm EMI has said it will sell its recorded music unit for £1.2bn ($1.9bn) to Universal Music.
Reports have suggested that the other half of EMI's business - the lucrative music publishing unit - will go to a Sony-led consortium for more than $2bn.
EMI, with a history dating back to 1897, is home to artists including Coldplay, the Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Citigroup seized ownership of EMI in February after previous owner Terra Firma failed a solvency test.
BBC:Wounded soldiers' 'jobs at risk'
Wounded soldiers' 'jobs at risk'
Soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq could be made redundant as part of tens of thousands of armed forces job cuts, a leaked army memo suggests.
Wounded personnel were not part of 1,000 army redundancies earlier this year but could feature in coming cuts.
The memo seen by the Daily Telegraph suggests there could be 16,500 army cuts - up from 12,000 earlier reported.
The Army says no wounded personnel will be made to leave until their recovery means it "is the right decision".
BBC:Stock markets gain after Italy austerity vote
Stock markets gain after Italy austerity vote
Stock markets have risen after Italy's senate voted to adopt a package of austerity measures.
Shares in the US and Europe closed higher, while the cost of borrowing facing Italy retreated, having reached a record earlier in the week.
The Italian senate's vote begins a process that should see Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi quit.
Investors are hopeful that a new government will take the steps necessary to calm markets.
BBC:Mexico helicopter crash kills Interior Secretary Blake Mora
Mexico helicopter crash kills Interior Secretary Blake Mora
Mexico's Secretary of the Interior, Francisco Blake Mora, has died in a helicopter crash near Mexico City.
The helicopter was flying to Cuernavaca in neighbouring Morelos state for a prosecutors' meeting when it went down.
All eight people on board were killed. President Felipe Calderon said weather conditions were probably to blame.
Mr Blake Mora, 45, was appointed to the post last year and was a key figure in the war against drug cartels.
Reuters:Obama seeks to hitch U.S. economy to Asian growth
Obama seeks to hitch U.S. economy to Asian growth
(Reuters) - With Europe mired in crisis, President Barack Obama is launching a charm offensive this week to hitch the U.S. economy to opportunities in Asia he hopes can help power the recovery he needs for re-election.
Obama, who was born in Hawaii and spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, will host leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, including Chinese President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, in Honolulu this weekend to seek to improve trade ties across the region.
He will then travel to Australia to announce plans to boost the U.S. military presence in the region and will be the first American president to attend the East Asia Summit in Bali, where he will heap attention on the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia as well as India.
The campaign to cozy up to Asian powers large and small comes at a critical moment for the U.S. economy, whose recovery is at risk because of a spiraling debt crisis in Europe that dominated a summit of Group of 20 leaders in France last week.
Reuters:Italy pushes through austerity law, Greek PM sworn in
Italy pushes through austerity law, Greek PM sworn in
(Reuters) - Italy's parliament on Friday began rushing through austerity measures demanded by the European Union to avert a euro zone meltdown and Washington ratcheted up pressure for more dramatic action from the currency bloc.
The Italian Senate approved a new budget law, clearing the way for approval of the package in the lower house on Saturday and the formation of an emergency government to replace that of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
In Athens, former European Central Bank policymaker Lucas Papademos was sworn in as Greek prime minister after days of political wrangling, tasked with meeting the terms of a bailout plan to avert bankruptcy.
After President Barack Obama spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy late on Thursday and called Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner demanded fast action from Europe.
Reuters:Wall St Week Ahead: For U.S. investors, it's all Greek
Wall St Week Ahead: For U.S. investors, it's all Greek
(Reuters) - Wall Street is stuck in a highly volatile range as investors hoping for a rally into the end of the year are browbeaten by Europe's unfolding crisis.
For months, investors have been enthusing about valuations, earnings and, more recently, signs of an improving economy. Those may be good reasons why stocks should rally, but even the most ardent are starting to sound a bit glum.
The political intrigue in southern Europe has flummoxed investors stateside. Papademos has replaced Papandreou. Berlusconi is, well, Berlusconi. The headlines and the subsequent volatility seem relentless.
"It literally just changes consistently each and every night," said Jeremy Zirin, chief U.S. equity strategist at UBS Wealth Management in New York.
"Earlier this week, there were worries about a potential Italian default and now we've seen government and regime change in two of the periphery nations."
Reuters:Suspected Kurd militants hijack ferry in Turkey
Suspected Kurd militants hijack ferry in Turkey
(Reuters) - As many as five suspected Kurdish militants, reportedly armed with explosives, held about 20 people hostage on a passenger ferry near Istanbul on Saturday having hijacked the vessel soon after it set out in northwest Turkey early on Friday evening.
Turkish commandos on coastguard vessels tracked the high-speed "sea bus" in the Sea of Marmara before it ran low on fuel and had to anchor west of Istanbul. The ferry had been on a short run between the towns of Izmit and Karamursel.
Friends and relatives waited for news at the two ports, while fuel tankers headed for the area where the vessel was anchored, media reports said.
"They have no concrete demands. All they want now is fuel and food and drink," transport minister Binali Yildirim told reporters in the capital Ankara. There were no indications that any passengers had been harmed, he said.
Reuters:McCain seeks further hearing on Lockheed fighter
McCain seeks further hearing on Lockheed fighter
(Reuters) - Senator John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on Tuesday for another hearing on the Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) F-35 fighter plane, warning that delays in its delivery could jeopardize orders from international partners.
McCain, whose investigation of a $23.5 billion Boeing Co (BA.N) airplane lease deal with the Air Force killed that agreement in 2004 and sparked major acquisition reforms, raised serious concerns about the F-35 program, which Pentagon estimators now say could cost $1 trillion over its lifetime.
"We have to fix the weapons acquisition culture," McCain told the Reuters Washington Summit.
"It's a culture that allows us to have the first trillion dollar weapons system -- the F-35 -- and we still are so far from finalizing the last and final version of the airplane that we could sell to our allies and have in operation," he said.
Reuters:Deficit lobbying gets louder as deadline looms
Deficit lobbying gets louder as deadline looms
(Reuters) - Richard Smith, a retired attorney and Navy veteran, has a message for Republican Senator Jon Kyl and the rest of the special bipartisan committee in Congress that is trying to reach a deal to cut the deficit.
"For me, a society is only as good as it treats people that are less able to take care of themselves," Smith said at a small rally against potential cuts in education and programs for the poor, held outside Kyl's office in Phoenix, Arizona.
Smith and a dozen fellow demonstrators standing with signs that read "Cuts Kill Jobs" and "Honk for Jobs" may not have seemed like much of a force in the tumultuous political debate over how to close Washington's annual deficit, which has been topping $1 trillion a year.
But they are part of a large and increasingly personal lobbying campaign to sway the six Republicans and six Democrats on the so-called "super committee" as they approach a November 23 deadline for striking a deal to trim the fiscal shortfall by at least $1.2 trillion over 10 years.
LA Times:iPhone users still having battery problems despite iOS 5.0.1. update
iPhone users still having battery problems despite iOS 5.0.1. update
Apple's iOS 5.0.1. update was supposed to relieve the battery drain on the company's latest iPhone, but some users are complaining that the fix didn't work and, in some cases, made the problem worse.
"The recent iOS software update addressed many of the battery issues that some customers experienced on their iOS5 devices," Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said. "We continue to investigate a few remaining issues."
The update was released Thursday, and by Friday, many users had taken to Twitter and other forums to discuss the efficacy of the update.
"Is it just me or did the #iOS5 update do absolutely nothing to address the battery issues?" chadmolloy said on Twitter.