A top cabinet minister said on Thursday that a cyber attack on key Canadian economic ministries last month was serious, but will not affect the timing of next month's federal budget.

CHANGCHUN, China, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- After the international financial crisis, many countries in the world have come to realize the necessity for economic restructuring and growth pattern transformation. The green economy has become an issue of universal interest.

Britain and France disagree on how to limit big bonuses for bankers, which both countries hold partially responsible for the financial crisis, analysts say. Finance ministers were meeting in London Saturday in a preparatory session for this month's Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh, where a top agenda item will be huge bonuses given to investment bankers, the BBC reported. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown opened the meeting saying: Pay and bonuses cannot reward failure or encourage unacceptable risk-taking, The Times of London reported.

Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Tokyo, Aug. 1 Kyodo - Bunmei Ibuki, the Liberal Democratic Party's secretary general, will be appointed as finance minister in the Cabinet reshuffle Friday, political sources said.

Text of report by Indian news agency PTI Jeddah, 22 June: India Sunday [22 June] advocated for a price band for crude oil and blamed the speculators for the surge in global crude prices, saying this is threatening to "wipe out" economic gains of developing countries.