

CBS NewsStarbucks to Expand Food Offering With La Boulange Bakery Acquisition
Wall Street Journal
By Annie Gasparro and Nathalie Tadena Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) is aiming to make food a bigger part of its business by adding La Boulange Bakery to its plate. The coffee retailer said Monday it will acquire Bay Bread LLC and its La Boulange Bakery brand ...
Starbucks buys San Francisco bakery chain for $100 millionDetroit Free Press
Starbucks to Buy Bakery for $100 Million to Expand OfferingsSan Francisco Chronicle
Starbucks buys bakery to improve food offeringsPeoria Journal Star Reuters all 158 news articles » 
AFPHow low can Facebook go?
AFP
By Paul Handley (AFP) – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON — Two weeks after the largest, most anticipated IPO in years, Facebook shares keep going down. And down. And down. And investors want to know how far they can go. During trade on Monday the shares hit ...
Prices of Facebook stock since long-awaited IPOBusinessWeek
Post Facebook IPO market frozenCNNMoney
Investor distrust likely to rise after Facebook IPO debacleBaltimore Sun all 262 news articles » 
Financial TimesHere's What The Analyst Who Uncovered Enron Thinks About Chesapeake
Forbes
Secret hedge funds, off-balance-sheet financings, big perks for directors, sweetheart drilling deals and giant non-recourse loans for Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon — it all means that “crony capitalism has been alive and well,” says John Olson.
DiNapoli recommends Chesapeake board turnoverLegislative Gazette
Chesapeake Energy to Replace Four Board MembersWall Street Journal
News Summary: Chesapeake to allow 2 largest shareholders to select 4 board membersWashington Post San Francisco Chronicle -Bloomberg -Investor's Business Daily all 276 news articles » 
Globe and MailGermany Pushes EU Bank Oversight
Wall Street Journal
By WILLIAM BOSTON BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday suggested that European Union leaders consider putting the largest banks in the 27-nation bloc under direct European supervision, opening the door to more centralized oversight of the ...
European bank bailouts signal crisis is gathering speedGlobe and Mail
Angela Merkel - Mariano Rajoy wrestle over aid for SpainEconomic Times
Euro Gains for 2nd Day on Optimism Leaders Near SolutionBloomberg Reuters -The Associated Press all 882 news articles » 
Telegraph.co.ukMF Global trustee: Corzine mismanaged firm's growth
CNBC.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jon Corzine failed to address MF Global Holdings Ltd's growing liquidity needs as he tried to build the commodities broker into a global investment powerhouse, helping create the conditions that led to its downfall, ...
MF Global caught up in deals tangleFinancial Times
MF Global Trustee May Sue CorzineWall Street Journal
MF Global Trustee Threatens Suit Against CorzineABC News Forbes all 425 news articles » 
Telegraph.co.ukChina Readies for Possible Greek Euro-Zone Exit
Fox Business
China's government is drafting economic measures to take should Greece have to leave the euro zone, China Daily reported online Tuesday local time, citing sources. "The government is working on plans for the worst-case scenario of Greece leaving the ...
S&P: 1-in-3 chance Greece leaves euroCNN
S&P Sees at Least 1-in-3 Chance of Greece Euro Exit After VoteSan Francisco Chronicle
TEXT-S&P report Assesses the likelihood of Greece exiting eurozoneReuters Bloomberg -Wall Street Journal -AFP all 178 news articles » 
Telegraph.co.ukWhy diesel & kerosene are a drag on state oil companies' finances
Economic Times
Brent crude oil prices dipped below $96 a barrel on Monday, plunging to the lowest in 18 months. Petrol prices in India are higher than what was prevailing when crude oil last touched this level, even after accounting for the depreciation of the rupee.
Oil ends higher, near $84 a barrelWashington Post
Falling Oil Prices Are No MysteryBusinessWeek
Crude Fluctuates on Economic Concern, Strengthening EuroBloomberg Wall Street Journal -MarketWatch -Reuters all 444 news articles » 
msnbc.comMerrill Losses Were Withheld Before Bank of America Deal
New York Times
Days before Bank of America shareholders approved the bank's $50 billion purchase of Merrill Lynch in December 2008, top bank executives were advised that losses at the investment firm would most likely hammer the combined companies' earnings in the ...
BofA-Merrill deal suggests a needed reformCharlotte Observer
How Many Times Will Bank Of America's Shareholders Pay For Merrill?Forbes
New SJ motion in BofA/Merrill case: the boon of discoveryThomson Reuters News & Insight Fox Business all 70 news articles » 
Globe and MailVerizon Offers Buyouts to 1700 Union Land-Line Employees
Bloomberg
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), the second-largest US phone company, offered exit packages to 1700 technicians and call-center workers, a move that may lead to hundreds of job cuts if enough employees don't volunteer. The buyouts are being offered to ...
Verizon looks to cut 1700 jobs, offers buyoutsReuters
Verizon offering buyouts to 1700 wireline workersUSA TODAY
Verizon Aims to Cut 1700 Wireline Jobs Via BuyoutsFox Business Bizjournals.com -Investor's Business Daily -Washington Post all 126 news articles » 
AFPSalesforce Buddies Up to Facebook
Wall Street Journal
By ROLFE WINKLER Facebook's stock may be hitting new lows, but two big software companies seem to think its business has a bright future. First Oracle and now Salesforce.com have acquired start-ups that manage social-marketing campaigns, ...
Salesforce.com pays a hefty price for Buddy MediaGlobe and Mail
Salesforce.com buying Buddy Media in $689 million deal to boost social-media ...Washington Post
News Summary: Salesforce.com Buying Buddy MediaABC News TheStreet.com all 270 news articles »

BloombergAnnan Should Be Talking to Putin to Fix Syria, Not Assad
Bloomberg
Kofi Annan's United Nations-Arab League mission to broker peace in Syria has failed. It was also worth the attempt. Without the mission's 300 observers, we wouldn't know the scale and nature of the executions that took place last week in Houla and Deri ...
Russia turns east to embrace looming ChinaReuters
China says it's not protecting Syria's AssadThe Associated Press
As EU and Russia talk, Syria slides ever closer to civil warThe Independent Christian Science Monitor -RIA Novosti -Irish Times all 686 news articles » 
CTV.caSyrian president: 'We are facing a war from abroad'
CNN
(CNN) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addressed his country and the newly-elected People's Assembly on Sunday, decrying what he called the "terrorists" and "conspiracy" against Syria. "At this time, we are facing a war from abroad," al-Assad said ...
Assad Condemns Houla Massacre, Blaming TerroristsNew York Times
Syrian president blames outside forces for crisis facing countryFox News
Assad: Syria faces 'real war waged from the outside'msnbc.com The Associated Press -Washington Post -TIME all 3,139 news articles » 
CBC.caCanadian Body Parts Suspect Arrested in Berlin
TIME
By JUERGEN BAETZ, ROB GILLIES / AP Monday, June 04, 2012 (BERLIN) — A Canadian porn actor suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student and mailing his body parts to Canada's top political parties was reading about himself on the Internet ...
Luka Magnotta, wanted for Canada dismember slay, caught while reading about ...CBS News
Lin friends relieved suspected killer Magnotta capturedCBC.ca
German Police Arrest Alleged Murderer Dubbed 'Canadian Psycho'Voice of America Toronto Star -Globe and Mail -CTV.ca all 1,465 news articles » 
CBS NewsDiamond Jubilee success thanks to royal rebranding
CBS News
(CBS News) LONDON - Few public figures have had the staying power of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Her reign began with a coronation at Westminster Abbey, and she's now starting her 60th year on the throne. Queen Elizabeth's husband in hospital with ...
Highlights from the Diamond Jubilee concertBBC News
Prince Philip in hospital, misses star-studded jubilee concertGlobe and Mail
Queen minus companion for Jubilee concertSydney Morning Herald AFP -Reuters India -The Press Association all 6,404 news articles » 
Telegraph.co.ukNigerian Deadliest Crash in Decades Dents Industry Image
Bloomberg
Nigeria's deadliest airline crash in almost 40 years casts a shadow over an industry that gained a US safety rating upgrade two years ago, as investigators focus on possible engine failure as the cause of the accident. The Dana Airlines Ltd. crash on ...
Nigeria jet's engines failed; toll 193Times of India
Grim search for dead after Nigerian plane crashThe Associated Press
Engines failed ahead of Nigerian plane crash that killed 153The Australian Sydney Morning Herald -TIME all 3,061 news articles » 
Globe and MailChina stock index's echo of Tiananmen Sqaure date sparks censorship
Fox News
SHANGHAI – China's share benchmark has fallen afoul of the country's Internet censors by appearing to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. In an unlikely coincidence certainly unwelcome to China's ...
China Blocks Search After "Mind-boggling" Tiananmen CoincidenceBusinessWeek
China market close marks Tiananmen anniversaryTimes of India
Hong Kong Tiananmen Vigil Attracts Tens of ThousandsVoice of America Irish Times -The Independent all 766 news articles » 
IBNLive.comLibyan militias clash at Tripoli's international airport, surround planes
Times of India
TRIPOLI: Clashes broke out between rival Libyan militias at Tripoli's international airport on Monday after gunmen drove armed pickup trucks onto the tarmac and surrounded planes, forcing the airport to cancel flights. In a fresh challenge to the ...
Rival troops clash in battle for control of airportThe Independent
Libyan militia takes control of Tripoli airportUSA TODAY
Airport in Tripoli centre of clashes between militiasIrish Times Sydney Morning Herald all 423 news articles » 
The Nation, PakistanUS strike said to target al-Qaeda's No. 2
Washington Post
US missiles killed more than a dozen people in northwestern Pakistan early Monday in a strike that apparently was aimed at al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader, the charismatic and influential jihadist known as Abu Yahya al-Libi, US and Pakistani officials said.
Drone strike in Pakistan targets al Qaeda leaderCBS News
US targets senior al Qaeda leader, further strains Pakistan tiesReuters
16 killed in NWA drone strikesThe News International Irish Times -USA TODAY all 1,075 news articles » 
CTV.caNATO plans new Afghan mission after 2014
Times of India
MOSCOW: Afghanistan and NATO have agreed to develop a plan for a new international peacekeeping mission in the country after 2014 when Afghan forces take full control of the security, NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday.
Nato signs deal to move Afghan equipment via Central AsiaBBC News
NATO chief's visit to Australia to boost ties over AfghanistanThe Australian
NATO chief boosts ties with NZealand, to visit AustraliaAFP New York Times -The Associated Press all 279 news articles » 
Globe and MailNuclear Monitor Announces New Talks with Iran
New York Times
The top United Nations nuclear official announced new talks with Iran on Monday aimed at gaining access to restricted sites, and he expressed concern about satellite images taken last month that showed the Iranians had demolished buildings at one site ...
UN Watchdog, Announcing Iran Talks, Voices SuspicionsWall Street Journal
IAEA chief urges Iran to sign N-dealThe News International
IAEA sees demolition at Iran site, new talks setReuters Jerusalem Post -Atlanta Journal Constitution all 344 news articles »
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