The International Monetary Fund approved a $140.8 million (106.6 million euro) loan for Kosovo Friday, after cutting off funding last year in a dispute over pay raises for civil servants.

The new 20 month stand-by arrangement will back a program to ease the country's fiscal pressures and help the government shore up its cash buffer.

The first sight of India's newest "Motor City" is a collection of giant blue-and-grey structures, windowless boxes in corporate colors that are the hallmark of modern manufacturing.

The warehouses and machining plants, walled in on an enormous site of more than 1,000 acres (400 hectares), are owned by Tata Motors which moved to the western state of Gujarat in 2008 to start producing its Nano small car.

Dubai says it now has full control of the Atlantis resort hotel perched atop its palm-shaped island.

State-run investment firm Istithmar World said late Friday it paid $250 million to buy out business partner Kerzner International Holdings Ltd., which had held a 50 percent stake in the coral-colored hotel. Istithmar already owned half of the property.

Procter and Gamble on Friday posted a sharp decline in earnings for its third fiscal quarter, citing a "difficult economic and competitive environment."

P&G, which owns some of the best known brands in the world such as Gillette, Tide laundry detergent and Charmin tissues, said net profit fell 16 percent from the year-ago quarter to $2.4 billion despite a two percent rise in sales.

Honda Motor said Friday its full-year profit plunged 60.4 percent but it showed signs of recovery in the final quarter, bouncing back from the impact of natural disasters in Japan and Thailand.

Group net profit for the 12-month period came to 211.5 billion yen ($2.6 billion), down from 534.1 billion yen a year earlier, the company said.

Spain's jobless rate surged to a record 24.4 percent at the end of March as 5.6 million people searched for work in a recession-bound, deficit-plagued economy, data showed Friday.

Hours after Standard and Poor's downgraded Spain's sovereign debt citing the deficit, fragile banks and recession, the country disclosed that its unemployment woes had deteriorated drastically.

Ratings agency Standard and Poor's on Thursday downgraded Italian automaker Fiat's long-term corporate credit rating from BB to BB-, citing weak demand in Italy and overcapacity in Europe.

The announcement came after the Italian auto giant said its net profit in the first quarter soared ten-fold to 379 million euros ($500 million) thanks to its U.S. partner Chrysler, without which it would be in the red.

HSBC on Thursday said it would cut 3,167 jobs as part of previously announced plans to reduce the bank's global workforce by 30,000 over two years to 2013.

The London-headquartered bank added that due to the creation of 950 positions, the net loss for British jobs would total 2,217.

Volkswagen, Europe's biggest car maker, said Thursday that profits raced ahead in the first three months of this year, driven by strong demand worldwide for all of its brands.

VW said in a statement it booked net profit of 3.186 billion euros ($4.222 billion) in the period from January to March, an increase of 86 percent from a year earlier.

Han Zhongping, a 38-year-old coal mine owner who has four luxury cars and is in the market for another, looked at BMW's latest sedans at this week's Beijing auto show and said what he wants is simple.

"The most expensive is the best," said Han, from the northwestern town of Yulin in China's coal fields. His stable of cars already includes models from BMW and Mercedes-Benz, all bought for cash.