Limited Brands said that it had agreed to sell 75 percent of its namesake clothing chain to a buyout firm, Sun Capital Partners. Read more..

By BLOOMBERG NEWS - The New York Times

Groupe Danone, the world’s largest yogurt products company, said it planned to buy Royal Numico for 12.3 billion euros ($16.8 billion). Read more..

By JULIA WERDIGIER - The New York Times

The Delphi Corporation said that it had terminated a $3.4 billion financing plan to bring the company out of bankruptcy protection but that it expects to sign a new deal this month. Read more..

By NICK BUNKLEY - The New York Times

The Delphi Corporation said that it had terminated a $3.4 billion financing plan to bring the company out of bankruptcy protection but that it expects to sign a new deal this month. Read more..

By NICK BUNKLEY - The New York Times

The announcement by Nielsen/NetRatings to emphasize ranking Web sites by the time users spend may prompt a change in ad deals that may ultimately make for better Web sites. But it doesn’t mean that Google is down and AOL is up, as some have said. Read more..

By SAUL HANSELL - The New York Times

A new report says that pressures on fuel supplies are growing, in part, because booming Asian economies are using more fuel to power their manufacturing industries. Read more..

By JAMES KANTER - The New York Times

Aleksandr I. Medvedev, the deputy director of Gazprom, has floated the idea of allowing foreign energy companies to take an equity stake in an operating company that will develop a large offshore natural gas field in the Russian Arctic. Mr. Medved... Read more..

By ANDREW E. KRAMER - The New York Times

Royal Dutch Shell and Rosneft, the Russian state oil company, agreed to explore possibilities to work together to develop oil fields and market gasoline and other petroleum products worldwide. The deal was presented as a framework to discuss futur... Read more..

By ANDREW E. KRAMER - The New York Times

Tens of thousands of tubes of potentially toxic toothpaste from China have been seized in Spain and Italy, the European Commission said. The Italian health ministry has seized 20,000 tubes of toothpaste identified as counterfeit and is testing sam... Read more..

By STEPHEN CASTLE - The New York Times

Microsoft reverses its slide in search share by offering a contest. The second notable development in the Web measuring front is an announcement by Nielsen/NetRatings that it will put more emphasis on reporting the time users spend on each page, rather than counting page views Read more..

By MIGUEL HELFT - The New York Times