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Iceland is to lose its three McDonalds outlets after the country's financial crisis made operating there too expensive.

US commerce secretary Gary Locke has called on China to do more to enforce intellectual property rights, during a visit to Guandong.

New proposals are being put forward to make credit and store cards clean-up their act and encourage consumers to get their debt under control.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his opponent, Democrat Bill Thompson, are preparing for Monday's final televised debate in the city's hotly contested mayoral race.

The government is proposing changes to the way credit cards work. They include calling for card providers to stop upping a borrower's limit without their consent. David Kuo from The Motley Fool, told the BBC what's wrong with giving people bigger credit limits

The latest computer games have gone on show at the Eurogamer Expo in Leeds. The industry is now worth £4bn in the UK.

The General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union, Billy Hayes has called for an independent assessment of workloads in the Royal Mail.

Fresh talks aimed at resolving the postal workers strike are to be held in London on Monday, the TUC has said.

China has launched its Nasdaq-style second board in Shenzhen, aiming to reform its capital markets and fund private sector growth.

Ghana is poised to become a significant player in the international oil market after the discovery of reserves off its coast.

Dianne Winfield's family lost their home in Stoke after her husband lost his job.

Graham Birse of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has said that the city has fared better than expected over the last year.

The UK economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.4% between July and September, according to official figures, meaning the country is still in recession.

Chancellor Alistair Darling says confidence is returning to the economy, despite new figures showing the UK has suffered the longest recession in over half a century.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne says it is time for a change of economic leadership, as new figures show the recession in the UK is the longest in over half a century.

A Parisian restaurant is selling off 18,000 of bottles of of its wine and cognac in an auction in December.

The way banks treat recently bereaved customers is "inadequate and chaotic", according to the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.

Aggressive price-cutting tactics by supermarkets could result in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the food industry, a union has warned.

John McFall MP says that banks make recently bereaved customers "jump through unnecessary hurdles"

Google has reported its highest quarterly profit, suggesting that the internet advertising market is bouncing back from the recession.