It paid a yield of 0.757 percent to sell 300 million euros of 3-month Treasury bills, slightly up from 0.737 last month.

The two display giants have been embroiled in a patent tussle over organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD technologies.

Obama was welcomed at Ben Gurion airport by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Sarris is in Moscow to discuss the extension of a 2.5-billion-euro loan that Russia gave Nicosia in 2011 at a rate of 4.5 percent.

Pakistani Taliban militants are waging a violent campaign to topple the government and impose their austere brand of Islam.

Craig Berkman was arrested at his home in Odessa, Florida, and appeared briefly before a federal magistrate in Tampa.

The assailants targeted markets, restaurants, bus stops and day laborers mainly in Shia districts of the capital.

In Feb 2013, consumer prices grew by 3,1% compared with the same period in 2012, with 2.8% inflation recorded.

The charge reduced annual net profit to €291 million from €665 million. That's an even steeper plunge from €4.3 billion in 2011.