Europe's financial crisis remains the biggest hurdle to global economic recovery and will be in focus at a meeting of world finance chiefs in Mexico City this weekend, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Friday.

Stock index futures fell on Monday as a huge and potentially damaging hurricane was expected to hit the U.S. East Coast later in the day, and traders eyed renewed uncertainty in Europe that hit bonds in peripheral euro zone nations.

Four top U.S. manufacturers, including General Electric Co (GE.N) and Honeywell International Corp (HON.N), reported weaker-than-expected sales on Friday, in a fresh warning to investors that demand around the world remains sluggish.

Four top U.S. manufacturers, including General Electric Co (GE.N) and Honeywell International Corp (HON.N), reported weaker-than-expected sales on Friday, in a fresh warning to investors that demand around the world remains sluggish.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union on Friday as a "wonderful decision" and said it would inspire her personally to press ahead with closer integration.

The U.S. brokerage unit and a European unit of the former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said they settled a dispute over $38 billion in asset claims, a major step toward customers and creditors recovering money.

The spirit and passion of the late Seve Ballesteros will infuse the European team with extra energy against the United States at next week's Ryder Cup, fellow Spaniard Sergio Garcia has predicted.

Including the Ford Mustang, Ford promises 15 new vehicles will be brought to Europe over the next few years.

Ford has announced that it will officially export the next generation of the iconic Ford Mustang to Europe.

CME Group Inc (CME.O), the biggest U.S.futures market operator, plans to launch a European exchange in a bid to break the duopoly of NYSE Euronext (NYX.N) and Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1Gn.DE) and expand CME's customer base in the process.

IKEA, best known as the world's largest furniture retailer, plans to build a budget hotel chain across Europe, following a trend for cheap-but-cool accommodation driven by low air fares and increasingly price-conscious business travellers.

Ferrari F12 Berlinetta will stand to cost €274,000 before taxes and could cost as much as €369,589 when it's fully decked out with options including the HELE start-stop system.

Infiniti's ambitious plan is set to target 100,000 European vehicle sales by 2016. In fact, Ghosn sees a global opportunity to triple Infiniti's sales to 500,000 units.