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US stocks are closing with their second-biggest gain this year after European leaders announced a plan to rescue banks, relieve debt-burdened governments and restore investor confidence.

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US corn futures on Friday posted their biggest weekly gain since 2008 while soybeans capped their sharpest monthly rise in more than three years, as nagging drought in America’s heartland overshadowed a government report showing farmers planted larger crops than expected this year.

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DETROIT — Toyota’s problems with runaway acceleration just won’t go away.

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A US judge on Friday granted Apple Inc’s request for a p re-trial i njunction against the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s Galaxy Nexus phone, han ding the iPhone maker its second legal victory against Samsung in a week.

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European Union leaders will ask the bloc’s top four officials to develop the building blocks they have identified so far into a detailed, time-bound roadmap to a genuine economic and monetary union, draft conclusions of the EU leaders’ summit showed.

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Google will sell a small tablet computer bearing its brand in a challenge to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The Nexus 7 is designed specifically for Google Play, the online store that sells movies, music, books, apps and other content — the things Amazon.com also sells for its tablet computer.

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Lt-Gen Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Chief of Dubai Police, on Wednesday urged Indian businessmen to keep up the momentum of decades-old bilateral relationship by continuing to invest in Dubai.

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BEIJING — China blocked access to Bloomberg’s website on the mainland after the business and financial news agency published a report Friday detailing the multimillion-dollar assets of relatives of the man set to become the country’s next president.

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Research In Motion Ltd could run out of cash and ultimately fail, even with the launch of its now-delayed BlackBerry 10 device early next year, Wall Street analysts said.

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