(Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group's planned sale of over 600 bank branches to the Co-operative Group has collapsed after the latter decided it could not proceed with the 750-million-pound deal, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing tw... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tavi Gevinson has accomplished more in her 16 years than most people double her age. The style blogger, writer and darling of the fashion set launched a fashion blog from her suburban Chicago home before she turned 12. Two years ... [Full Article]
State-rescued Lloyds Banking Group on Thursday said it had agreed to sell 632 branches to the Co-operative Group that it was ordered to offload by EU competition regulators. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - New British banking venture NBNK has made a fresh bid for 632 Lloyds bank branches, putting it back in a race with shops-to-banking group The Co-Op, whose offer has run into regulatory problems. NBNK said it was offering an "a... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Spain's Santander is closing 56 branches in Britain to remove overlap in its network after it bolted together three separate businesses, which left it with two branches side by side in some places. Santander's purchase of... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - People burn dried oak branches, which symbolize the Yule log, on Orthodox Christmas Eve in front of St. Sava church in Belgrade January 6, 2012. Serbian Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas on January 7, according to the Julian calendar... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A farmer uses royal palm tree branches to build the roof of a shelter for animals on a farm in the outskirts of Havana September 15, 2011. Cuban President Raul Castro has pushed for a new economic and social model based on individual effo... [Full Article]
(AFP) - The US Capitol building dome is framed between branches of a tree in Washington, DC. Senior citizens are not optimistic about the near future -- they say their loved ones could suffer, and they are angry at lawmakers on Capitol Hill for allow... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Kyrgyz women in traditional costume burn branches of Himalayan Pencil Juniper for luck in front of U.S. military personnel during a ceremony to officially open the large aircraft ramp at the Manas airport near Bishkek June 23, 2011. The r... [Full Article]
(AP) - Women wave branches and cheer as they arrive for an unauthorized protest calling for Laurent Gbagbo to step down, in the Treichville neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. In a dramatic escalation of the nation’s co... [Full Article]