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WikiLeaks' Site Back with Swiss Address after 6 Hours

The whistleblower website WikiLeaks was back on line Friday with a new Swiss address -- wikileaks.ch -- six hours after its previous domain name -- wikileaks.org -- was shut down.

"WikiLeaks moves to Switzerland," the group declared on Twitter, although an Internet trace of the new domain name suggested that the site itself is still hosted in Sweden and in France.

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Donors Pledge 3.55 Billion Dollars for East Sudan

Donors and investors have pledged 3.55 billion dollars for the development of resource-rich but neglected east Sudan, officials said on Thursday at the end of a two-day conference in Kuwait City.

"Total pledges made by participants in the east Sudan donors and investors forum came at 3.55 billion dollars," said Mustafa Osman Ismail, an advisor to the Sudanese president and head of the organizing committee.

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Kuwait Donates $500 Million for East Sudan Development

Kuwait has donated 500 million dollars for the development of east Sudan, the Gulf state's foreign minister said Wednesday at the start of an international conference for donors and investors.

"I am pleased to announce the donation by the state of Kuwait of 500 million dollars for east Sudan development," Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed al-Sabah announced at the opening ceremony.

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Greece Admits Breach of Bailout as Audit Begins

Greece admitted on Monday that it is in breach of conditions for a new installment of its 110-billion-euro bailout as the IMF and European Union begin an audit of its austerity cuts.

The EU's statistical agency Eurostat issued its final revision of Greece's accounts for the past four years, triggering a new forecast by Athens that its public deficit this year would reach 9.4 percent of output, breaching a 8.1-percent target.

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German Economy Slows Slightly after Record Bounce

Germany's economic growth slowed slightly in the third quarter, official statistics published on Friday showed, an expected deceleration after a record second quarter for Europe's top economy.

Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.7 percent between July and September, Germany's statistics office said, after a jump of 2.3 percent in the second quarter of the year, the best performance for 20 years.

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Currency Disputes Dominate G20 Summit

The world's biggest rich and emerging powers escalated a war of words over trade and currencies Thursday, as leaders opened a G20 summit struggling to iron out distortions that threaten global growth.

The United States, striving to recover from its worst economic crisis in decades, locked horns anew with exporting giants China and Germany over a plan to rebalance skewed commerce between deficit and surplus countries.

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General Motors Posts $2 bln Profit in Third Quarter

General Motors on Wednesday announced a two-billion-dollar third quarter profit that will help it end the year in the black as it prepares to launch a public stock offering and slowly break away from government ownership.

But the automaker cautioned its fourth quarter results would be "significantly lower," in part due to a 700 million dollar charge related to buying back 2.1 billion dollars in shares from the U.S. government.

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Vodafone Reports Profit up 56.5%, Lifts Forecast

British mobile phone giant Vodafone said on Tuesday that first-half net profits soared by 56.5 percent and raised its annual earnings forecast, adding it had agreed to sell SoftBank interests for 3.1 billion pounds.

Earnings after tax soared by 56.5 percent to 7.542 billion pounds (8.764 billion euros, 12.15 billion dollars) in the six months to September, compared with the outcome in the same part of 2009.

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Rolls-Royce Shares Slide amid Qantas Engine Leaks

Rolls-Royce shares slumped over 3.0 percent in initial trades on Monday after Qantas said it had found oil leaks in engines made by the British group for the Australian airlines' Airbus A380 superjumbos.

Rolls dropped 3.21 percent to 572 pence, making it the heaviest faller in early trading on London's benchmark FTSE 100 index, which was stable.

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U.S. Economy Creates 151,000 Jobs in October

The United States economy created 151,000 jobs in October, much better than expected amid a weak recovery, while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent for the third consecutive month, official data showed on Friday.

The jobless rate matched expectations, while the number of new jobs was more than double the 60,000 forecast by most analysts.

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