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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Conservatives may tone down their tough message on the need to rein in the gaping budget deficit after a poll showed they could lose an election due by June.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece may soon announce new steps to cut its budget deficit, a government minister said on Sunday, amid signs that Athens might be nearing a deal with European Union governments to ease the Greek debt crisis. ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. financial regulators have not fully learned their lessons despite missing the massive fraud engineered by Bernard Madoff, said the man who tried for years to raise the alarm about Madoff's scheme.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Payrolls could give the U.S. stock market some direction this week as investors comb through the key report on one of the economy's weakest areas.

RIYADH (Reuters) - India said it expects its economy to rebound to 9-percent annual growth rates within two years and wants to expand its energy ties with top OPEC exporter Saudi Arabia to help fuel the recovery. ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe's single currency project is facing its toughest period since its launch over a decade ago and it is essential that Greece tackle the roots of its troubles to restore confidence, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prudential, Britain's largest insurer, is in advanced talks to buy the Asian arm of U.S. giant AIG, in what could be one of the largest overseas deals to date for a UK firm, sources familiar with the discussions said on Saturday. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Geoghegan, the chief executive of Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings, is set to give his bonus to charity, newspapers have reported, following a high-profile row over the sums paid to bankers.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Congress party is under pressure from its main allies to withdraw a hike in motor fuel prices, testing the government's commitment to a move that may add to inflation but is needed to cut the fiscal deficit. ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said its president would hold a news conference in Beijing on Monday as the automaker looks to limit the damage from a massive global recall on the fast-growing Chinese market.