SIR Stelios Haji-Ioannou's dispute with easyJet, the budget airline he founded, was ended with an agreement that he should receive royalty payments of 100m pounds while giving up his right to appoint the chairman of the company.
CANADA surprisingly failed to secure one of the two rotating seats on the UN Security Council which went to Germany and Portugal. Critics of the Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper said his strong support for Israel had lost him votes.
THE United States government lifted the moratorium on deep sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico; between 8-10'000 jobs had been lost following the BP oil-spill.
Zimbabwe's prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai asked for international help in what he called a constitutional crisis brought about by President Mugabe's appointments to several senior posts without the consultation called for under their power-sharing agreement.
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