Business

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Construction Bank (CCB) (0939.HK) (601939.SS), posted a 20 percent rise in second-quarter profit as the world's second-biggest lender by market value seeks to raise $11 billion to fuel growth restrained by a weak capital base. Full Story »

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swatch Group, the world's largest watchmaker, is aiming for another record year in 2011 as new products come on to the market in the coming months, the group's new chairwoman was quoted as saying on Sunday. Full Story »

BAGHDAD - It's not exactly Wall Street. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Unemployment fell in fewer states in July than in the previous three months, a sign that the pace of job growth has slowed. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Unemployment

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The war that has erupted between Barnes & Noble Inc's two largest shareholders over control of the bookseller is putting a wrench in its plans to sell itself and could make the retailer less appealing. Full Story »

LONDON (AFP) - Leading London shares advanced at the start of trading on Friday, matching rises on main European markets. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Nearly half of the 1.3 million homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration's flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out. Full Story »

KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistani authorities evacuated tens of thousands from flood-threatened areas in the south on Sunday but insisted that the 2.5 million people of Hyderabad were safe from the nation's worst-ever inundation. Full Story »

• Slideshow: Millions left homeless after Pakistan floods

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Women's clothing retailer AnnTaylor Stores Corp said quarterly sales rebounded at its namesake stores and it was able to sell more merchandise at full price, sending shares up 2 percent. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge has put on hold a foreclosure auction for equity in Manhattan's giant Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment complexes, a victory for senior lenders owed nearly $3.7 billion after the property's owner defaulted. Full Story »

NEW ORLEANS - For months, the U.S. government talked with a boot-on-the-neck toughness about BP, with the president wondering aloud about whose butt to kick. Full Story »

BERLIN (Reuters) - Regional German governments and politicians from Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition parties are joining protests against planned austerity measures, media reported on Saturday. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Automaker Nissan's North American division spent $870,000 lobbying Congress and the federal government during the second quarter on a range of issues from vehicle safety to financial reform. Full Story »