Best Buy investigates former CEO Brian Dunn over alleged inappropriate relationship with female employee

Goldman Sachs slashes compensation for its chairman, Lloyd Blankfein, by 35% to $12.4M

UK postal service provider Royal Mail caps stamp sales after price hike plan sparks panic buying

Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are engaged, spokeswoman says

US private equity firm Carlyle Group seeks to raise $762.5 million in initial public offering

McDonald’s appoints Tim Fenton chief operating officer of the global fast-food giant

Philip Morris and other top cigarette makers pay more than $6 billion to US states under settlement agreement

Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara riles Beijing with plan to buy islands in a disputed area of the East China Sea

Citigroup shareholders reject $15M pay package for chief executive Vikram Pandit at annual meeting

Authorities in Mexico prepare to evacuate residents near Popocatepetl volcano after alert level raised

Google CEO Larry Page tells court search engine ‘did nothing wrong’ by using Oracle-owned Java technology to develop Android

Shares in ecommerce giant eBay soar after quarterly revenue, profit beat analyst expectations

New York Times Co’s quarterly earnings beat analyst expectations, but advertising revenues fall

South Korea deploys missiles capable of hitting any target in North Korea

Moscow orders legal action against BP joint venture over Russian spills

Citigroup shareholder sues chief executive Vikram Pandit and his fellow directors over compensation package

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao signs agreements on energy, Arctic during Iceland visit

Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha pockets $47 million in 2011, nearly quadruple his 2010 pay

Swiss food giant Nestle to buy Pfizer’s infant nutrition business for $11.85 billion

Mexican immigration to the United States slows sharply, Pew report says

Global crime generates $2.1 trillion a year, says UN Office on Drugs and Crime chief Yury Fedotov

Hundreds of protesters converge on Wells Fargo annual meeting in San Francisco

Motorola Mobility scores initial victory against Apple in patents legal battle

Investigators probing collapsed futures brokerage MF Global find missing $1.6 billion, says trustee

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein says the US investment bank is not ‘anti-client’

Global food prices on the rise again, says World Bank

Protesters disrupt General Electric’s annual meeting to demand the conglomerate pay more taxes

Harley-Davidson says first-quarter net profit soars 44% as younger buyers embrace the iconic motorbike

Portuguese police refuse to reopen investigation into disappearance of Madeleine McCann

US automaker Chrysler says Q1 profit quadruples to $473M on strong domestic sales

Starbucks quarterly sales disappoint, shares fall sharply

China oil spill: CNOOC, ConocoPhillips agree to pay $266 million in compensation

America Movil, owned by Mexico billionaire Carlos Slim, sees first quarter net profit soar 37.5%

Mexico woman pregnant with nine babies

Euro zone unemployment rate hits record 10.9% in March as fiscal austerity measures bite

Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon ‘deeply sorry’ as shares plunge on disappointing earnings

Visa, MasterCard earnings soar in first three months as cardholders spend more money

US retail sales slow in April

General Motors net profit falls nearly 70% in Q1 after another loss in Europe

Mexico violence: Another two journalists found dead in Veracruz

Oil prices fall to three-month low after disappointing US jobs data

Yahoo shareholder accuses CEO Scott Thompson of exaggerating academic credentials, calls for sacking

Australia’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia, cuts growth, inflation forecasts

Fire in Peru drug rehabilitation clinic kills 14

Celebrations as Japan shuts down last nuclear reactor

US jury finds Google infringed some Oracle copyrights for Java

US consumer borrowing soars $21.36BN in March on demand for student, auto loans

Crude oil price falls to lowest level this year

Al Jazeera closes China bureau after correspondent Melissa Chan expelled

America Movil, controlled by Mexico billionaire Carlos Slim, offers $4.2BN for stake in Dutch telecom KPN

Argentina fines Telefonica of Spain $43M for service outage

Japan: Toyota says profit more than quadruples in fourth quarter, upbeat forecasts for 2013

Celebrity hairstylist Vidal Sassoon dies at 84

Federal Reserve allows China bank ICBC to buy US subsidiary of Bank of East Asia

Sweden retail giant H&M ‘sorry’ for using deeply tanned model for swimsuit campaign

US stocks: Dow breaks six-day losing streak

Mexico violence: Zetas drug cartel hit man ‘El Chilango’ arrested over marine torture-slayings

Japan electronics giant Panasonic posts record annual net loss of $9.7BN

Venezuela crossword-writer accused of plotting to kill brother of President Hugo Chavez

Mexico violence: Police find body of journalist in car