By Richard Hubbard. LONDON | Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:41am EDT. LONDON (Reuters) - European shares edged higher and major currencies and commodities were little changed on Wednesday as investors awaited clarity on the U.S.

Google has called on the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to relax its gag order on tech companies targeted in US security investigations.

Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:42pm EDT. * SEC will use no admit, no deny settlements in most cases. * White says SEC will only seek admission in selective cases.

South African inflation slowed for the first time in five months to 5.6 percent in May after gasoline prices fell the most since July.

PARIS | Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:05am EDT. PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus (EAD.PA) won an order for 25 A350-900 aircraft from Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM worth $7.5 billion at list prices, the planemaker said at the Paris Airshow on Wednesday.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a speech to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress on May 22, 2013, hinted that the Fed would someday taper its monthly buying program of $85 billion in longer-term Treasury bonds and Mortgage Backed ...

Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

Starting next Tuesday, your morning coffee to go will come with a full disclosure of its caloric content. Starbucks has announced that it will include calorie counts for each beverage on the menu boards at all of its more than 11,000 locations in the U.S.

The company said it still saw "strategic value" in a merger with Sprint but that it would not submit a revised offer owing to Sprint's decision to terminate due diligence and accept a SoftBank offer.

The New-York based Deloitte Financial Advisory Services was fined and also banned for one year from work in New York state after the authorities said it did not carry out its duties independently in advising the bank on how to avoid money laundering.