• Gold Slump Hits Silver
• Investors Turn Choosy on Chinese Debt
• China Weighs Broader Investments in U.S.
• Blackstone Bids for Chinese Tech Firm
• GE Capital to Pay Parent Dividend

• Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle: activists
• Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, vows not to screw it up
• Bulgarian Socialists vow to help poor, look to form coalition
• Car bombs target Shi'ites in Iraq, killing more than 60
• Britain denies bail to radical cleric who faces deportation

• Hezbollah fighters battle Syria rebels
• Iraq Shiites targeted in wave of sectarian violence
• Is 'kissing disease' stalking tennis?
• Car bomb blasts kills 8 in Dagestan
• Figuring out etiquette for Google Glass

• Actavis to buy Warner Chilcott for $5bn
• US lawyer expelled from Russia
• Anti-espionage tips for the traveller
• Yahoo’s $1.1bn Tumblr deal targets mobile
• Oil probe widens to trading houses

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