The British airport company BAA faces having to sell two of its three airports in London, following a recommendation of the British Competition Commission on Wednesday.

Volkswagen is working on plans to build a new cheap mid-engined sports car that is scheduled to be presented at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November, Germany's Auto Bild newspaper reports.

The last of the current generation MINI convertibles has rolled off the
production line at the Oxford plant in England with the white MINI
Cooper S going to a fan in the United States, BMW, the owner of MINI,
has announced.

The world's biggest miner, BHP Billiton, on Monday posted a record annual profit for the seventh year in a row. Profit for the 2008 financial year came in at 15 billion US dollars, up nearly 15 per cent from last financial year.

South Korea's STX Group said on Monday it was more than doubling its
stake in Europe's largest ship maker Aker Yards to 88.4 per cent,
gaining full management control of the Norwegian firm, the company
announced on Monday.

Ankara and Tehran were unable to reach an agreement on natural gas
Friday as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ended his visit to
Turkey, Turkish media reported.

Nearly 25 per cent of the traditional Chinese medicine companies in
Singapore have pledged not to sell products derived from endangered
species, an animal protection group said Friday.

India's Tata Group's retail arm Trent announced Tuesday it was entering
into a franchise agreement with British retailer Tesco to expand its
hypermarket business in India.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Monday vetoed a law placing the country's chemical industry under tougher European Union rules, calling it bureaucratic and bad for business.

Women in Hong Kong, China and Singapore do not need to rely on their
men to pay for their shopping binges, a survey said on Sunday.