• Stocks Retreat
• Actavis to Buy Warner Chilcott
• Goldman Sachs Selling ICBC Stake
• Silver Recovers After Swings
• HSBC's Thornton Stepping Down

• Chief Palestinian peace negotiator backs Kerry's efforts
• Tornado on the ground in Oklahoma City area
• Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle: activists
• Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states
• Dagestan bombs kill four, two dead in shootout near Moscow

• Tornado emergency for Oklahoma
• Syrian rebels target Hezbollah militia in Lebanon
• Why immigrants make pizza in Italy
• Where next for the 'Special One?'
• Teen featured in viral video dies

• Apple denies using ‘tax gimmicks’
• Graceland put on the market
• Yield hunt drives up leveraged loans
• Yahoo vows not to ‘screw up’ Tumblr
• Qatar snaps up stakes in key lenders

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• The Closer
• Collateral crunch-counting gets sophisticated
• Pump up, debase
• In which the FTSE puts the crisis behind it
• Bernanke weighs in on robot wars; brings Keynes for backup