BEIJING (Reuters) -Oil prices paused their recent advances, receding on Tuesday after surging more than 7% in the previous three sessions on supply concerns prompted by fears of a wider Middle East conflict and the potential shutdown of Libyan oil fields. Brent crude futures fell 18 cents, or 0.2%, to $81.25 a barrel at 0430 GMT, while U.S. West Texas...

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 3,500 current and former shop workers at British retailer Next have won a six-year legal fight for equal pay, lawyers representing the claimants said on Tuesday. An Employment Tribunal ruled that Next had failed to show that paying its sales consultants, who are overwhelmingly women, lower pay rates than its warehouse workers was not sex...

Aug 27 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. - Edgar Bronfman Jr. abandoned his pursuit of Paramount on Monday, dropping his 11th-hour bid roughly a day before the deadline to submit a final offer for the CBS and...

Aug 23 (Reuters) - * FG MERGER II CORP SEES IPO OF 8 MILLION UNITS PRICED AT $10/UNIT - SEC FILING Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: [ ] ...