LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp's European sales growth fell in August from the sizzling levels it experienced for much of the year due to weakness in France, which generates the company's biggest European sales, and its shares fell nearly 3 percent. (full story...)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks cut gains on Thursday, drifting to session lows as a report that Deutsche Bank was considering a share sale offset optimism over better-than-expected economic data. (full story...)

Korean government agencies will launch a pilot program shortly using 30 of the BlueOn cars, and Hyundai plans to put 2,500 cars on sale by 2012. (full story...)

Survey of cell phone users by Piper Jaffray finds some said antenna issues affected their decision whether to buy an iPhone 4, but more complained about the phone not being available on Verizon. (full story...)

A rare copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America, billed as the world's most expensive book, is to go on sale at Sotheby's. (full story...)

Sony's game-changing platform celebrates a decade and a half on the North American market; 2 billion PS family games sold; $63 billion in sales. (full story...)

Amazon's reader behemoth is about to get a little more behemoth-y, as Best Buy will begin selling Kindles this fall. With the devices already selling out, we can only imagine what the nation's largest electronics retailer will do for sales. [CrunchGear]More » (full story...)

LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp reported softer-than-expected August sales in Europe, its biggest revenue market, due to weakness in France, sending its shares down nearly 3 percent. (full story...)

The Irish Football Association (IFA) asks a number of websites to stop selling tickets for the game between Northern Ireland and Italy next month. (full story...)

While England promote their 'safe' option, Russia's bid team for the 2018 World Cup want the tournament to be a historic momentVitaly Mutko is in a confident mood. Surveying Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, with its luridly green artificial pitch, Mutko recalls watching Russia beat England 2-1 here during their 2007 European qualifier. It....(more) (full story...)