41.   Norwegian business newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv began its own investigation and reported that it had managed to buy a license from a Swedish inspector without taking the required tests.

42.   The business daily Kommersant newspaper, citing unidentified sources, said that Gantamirov wanted to return to Chechnya to prepare for future elections.

43.   The business newspaper La Tribune Desfosses quoted Telecommunications Minister Francois Fillon as confirming the selloff of a minority stake in France Telecom.

44.   The contracts orginally were reported by the Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

45.   The editor of Kommersant, a leading business newspaper partly owned by Kremlin insider Boris Berezovsky, has been fired, a news report said Thursday.

46.   The respected business newspaper Kommersant published a proposed government blueprint for coping with the economic crisis.

47.   The two companies basically have agreed to merge their stainless steel operations, the Nihon Keizai business newspaper reported Wednesday.

48.   The Vienna-based betting agency Admiral Sportwetten will refund customers who bet that Barrichello would win, the Vienna business newspaper Wirtschafts Blatt reported Wednesday.

49.   Volvo AB is preparing to make a bid for U.S. truck- and bus-maker Navistar, a Swedish business newspaper reported Friday.

50.   Weeks before the summit, the editor of Vietnamese business newspaper was jailed for allegedly revealing state secrets in his reports on corruption within the Customs Department.