The UK's Partygaming and Austrian firm Bwin unveil plans to merge and create the world's largest online gaming business. 

A Spanish judge issued arrest warrants for three U.S. soldiers on Thursday in connection with the death of a Spanish TV cameraman in Iraq in 2003, reopening a long-running legal battle, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN. 

Fugitive Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir, who fled to northern Cyprus in 1993, begins a legal bid to be granted bail ahead of a UK theft trial. 

Attacks on military posts in Iraq claimed at least five lives Thursday. 

Second-quarter profits at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell almost double after it completes a year-long restructuring programme. 

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