• In Europe, Cutting Jobs Could Take Years
• Southern Executive Departs as Clean-Coal Costs Mount
• New Chesapeake CEO Was Latecomer to Search
• Australian Market Lower Before RBA Minutes
• Jeweler Pleads Guilty in KPMG Insider Case

• Monster tornado devastates Oklahoma town; at least 51 dead
• Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations : sources
• Brazil probes rumor that set off panic run on state bank
• Court orders prison to hand over files in Boston bomb case
• Court orders prison to hand over files in Boston bomb case

• Two-mile-wide tornado razes town, kills 51 in Oklahoma
• See cell phone video of tornado strike
• Why search for life goes on
• Syrian forces pound rebel base
• 787 reboot: 5 things to know

• Cameron fights for unity on marriage vote
• Thai slowdown adds to Asia gloom
• Apple accused of avoiding billions in taxes
• Yahoo vows not to ‘screw up’ Tumblr
• Qatar snaps up stakes in key lenders

FT Alphaville - Market Commentary - FT.com

• Apple Operations International, facts (?) du jour
• The Closer
• Collateral crunch-counting gets sophisticated
• Pump up, debase
• In which the FTSE puts the crisis behind it