DHL scraps Brussels growth plan
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Courier firm DHL decides to ditch its plan to make Brussels its international hub as authorities delay a decision over night flights.
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The European Commission on Tuesday announced it had abandoned plans to ban the use of pints, pounds and miles in Britain and Ireland, in the face of overwhelming public opinion.
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The German-US automaker DaimlerChrysler has shot down plans by French President Jacques Chirac to place a Frenchman as the sole head of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, the Financial Times said.
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The European Court of Justice has rejected a legal bid to allow online European shoppers to purchase cheap cigarettes and alcohol anywhere throughout the EU.
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The airplane manufacturer Airbus has stopped work on the freight version of its new A380 superjumbo jet to focus more on the troubled passenger version of the aircraft, a spokesman for its parent company said. The decision came a week after United Parcel Service, the only remaining customer for the freight aircraft, postponed taking delivery of the planes and said it might cancel the order altogether.
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The European Union&#039;s top court scrapped a controversial EU decision approving the transfer of personal data about European air passengers to US authorities.
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Mobile telecommunications giant Nokia  said on Wednesday it and partner Intel Corp. had scrapped a  joint plan to develop an HSDPA module for notebook computers.
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Airbus was left with an empty order book for the cargo version of its much-delayed superjumbo plane after UPS Inc. said it would cancel its order for 10 A380s. The move comes just a week after UPS, the world's largest shipping carrier, and Airbus announced a revised agreement that gave either party the right to terminate the order.
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A leading business group cut its 2005 forecast for British economic growth Thursday, blaming a combination of high oil and commodity prices, slowing global growth and domestic interest rate rises.
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Dexia SA, Belgium&#39;s second-largest financial-services company, terminated talks with Italy&#39;s Sanpaolo IMI SpA on a possible partnership, saying ``the conditions are no longer right.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 21 (IPS) - A leading development group has slammed EU plans to  amend trade discounts to developing countries.
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United Parcel Service Inc.  said on Friday it planned to cancel an order for 10 Airbus A380 freighters.
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The EU called off its sanctions on $4  billion worth of U.S. goods on Monday after Washington repealed  illegal export tax subsidies, bringing some balm to  transatlantic ties wounded by a battle over Airbus and Boeing.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Diamond Fields International Ltd. has scrapped a deal to buy a prospective diamond exploration project in Finland, but still wants to negotiate on other projects in Africa and Russia.
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LONDON, October 26  - The European Commission has reduced its growth forecasts for the Eurozone economy for 2005, saying that the elevated oil prices and a continued rally in the euro would adversely impact the economy next year.
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Business & money: Fashion label Tommy Hilfiger has abandoned plans for a Â£1.5bn stock market float in Amsterdam
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Crisis talks to keep the European hub of international shipper DHL and thousands of jobs in Belgium have been thrown into chaos after Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt suffered injuries in a car crash.