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Three dead after France hit by storms in south

PARIS (Reuters) - Heavy rains and flooding in southern France over the weekend forced the evacuation of about six hundred people, and three people died in weather-related deaths as a dozen local regions remained on alert on Sunday.Rivers overran their banks, flooding ...

Two French children recovering from E.coli bout

LILLE (Reuters) - Two of eight children hospitalized in northern France after being infected with a strain of the E.coli bacteria were well enough Monday to return home, local health authorities said.The outbreak was unrelated to the strain earlier this month ...

Amazon fourth-quarter revenue up 36 percent

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Thursday posted a 36 percent rise in revenue, just shy of analysts' targets, on higher profit in its key holiday quarter.Net income in the global online retailer's fourth quarter was $416 million, or ...

Online spending during holiday season seen up 9 percent

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online spending during the holiday season is expected to increase by 9 percent over last year, analytics firm comScore said on Tuesday.In October, the firm said it expected an increase of 7 to 9 percent. At the time ...

EBay results beat Street view

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc posted higher-than-expected earnings, helped by double-digit growth at PayPal and a modest rise in revenue at the e-commerce company's main marketplaces unit.The company said third-quarter net profit was $431.9 million, or 33 cents per ...

Foot Locker turns to profit, cites sales gains

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Foot Locker on Wednesday posted fourth-quarter adjusted earnings that fell a penny short of Wall Street estimates, but beat on revenue and cited a same-store sales increase for January and February.Analysts, on average, had been expecting earnings of ...