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The UK government's trade and investment sector encourages British business firms to exchange trade with the Zionist entity, describing it as a land of opportunities, particularly within the high tech sectors.

One would question whether part of this sector includes drones and military technology, which Israel has acquired repute for.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has raised the eurozone growth forecast after better-than-expected economic news from the 16 countries that use the single currency.

“The range for real GDP growth this year has been revised upwards owing to the stronger-than-expected rebound in economic growth in the second quarter, as well as better-than-expected developments over the summer months,” the Bank's president Jean-Claude Trichet said Thursday.

The Edinburgh-based insurance and pension's giant Standard Life is to cut up to 500 jobs (phasing out 600 existing jobs and creating up to 100 new posts) over the next 15 months.

Standard Life was entering a 90-day consultation period with staff about the several heads which should leave its marketing department.

Unions have blamed British Airways' disciplinary cases for complicating its cabin crew row.

The dispute, which began last November, when BA announced it was cutting crew pay and reducing staffing, has cost the airline 150 million pounds.

Unions have blamed British Airways' disciplinary cases for complicating its cabin crew row.

The dispute, which began last November, when BA announced it was cutting crew pay and reducing staffing, has cost the airline 150 million pounds.

The BBC has been threatened by strikes after its journalists, technicians and other staff voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in a dispute over pensions.

Members of the National Union of Journalists and technicians' union Bectu at the BBC voted by more than 9 to 1 in a favor of strike action over plans by the management to make drastic cuts to their pension benefits, the British media reported Thursday.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will shed further thousands of jobs as it sells 318 of its branches to Santander in order to become more efficient commercial entity.

A report published by the British media on Thursday says the bank is planning to cut 3,500 jobs from its back-office operations across the UK as it pursues plans to shrink its business.

The unemployment rate across the eurozone has remained at a record rate of 10 percent in July for the fifth month running, official figures show.

According to European Union data (Eurostat) released on Tuesday, some 15.8 million people within the 16-nation eurozone were jobless in July as the eurozone unemployment rate remains at its highest level since the euro's virtual birth in 1999.

France has sent detailed proposals to the European Commission calling for common action to regulate volatile commodities markets before it is due to head the Group of 20 economic powers, ministry officials said.

President Nicolas Sarkozy said last week that regulating commodity derivatives would be one of the priorities of France's presidency of the G20 starting in November for a year.

The Irish government signaled on Monday that gradually winding down Anglo Irish Bank could be an option as political pressure mounts on Prime Minister Brian Cowen to deal with a national millstone.

Propping up Anglo Irish left Ireland with the biggest budget deficit in the European Union last year.