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Regulators in Google's largest European markets are taking joint action to try and force the company to overhaul its privacy policy.

New York’s top banking regulator had charged the British bank with laundering $250 billion in tainted money for Iranian clients.

James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of the companies that publish its British newspapers including the now-defunct News of the World tabloid at the center of the phone hacking sandal, regulatory filings show.

Several European countries that banned short-selling have extended the prohibition until the end of September. When concerns about European banks’ exposure to Greek debt sent their stocks plummeting two weeks ago, market regulators in Belgium, France, Greece, Italy and Spain stepped in to prohibit traders from betting on the decline in a share’s price.