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"The National Futures Association has barred Peregrine Financial Group, a Chicago-based futures broker, from continuing with its business activities amid a probe into missing customer funds after the company's founder apparently made a suicide attempt. "

"The FAA has directed airlines to put back redesigned oxygen systems in aircraft lavatories, a year after it had ordered them to be removed on concerns that they could be used by terrorists as weapons."

"A total fine of $452 million was levied on British bank Barclays PLC on Wednesday by US the and UK regulators for "misconduct" related to Libor and Euribor, which are benchmark rates that refer to the amount that banks levy for lending to each other. "

"A fine of $3.7 million has been imposed on Enbridge Inc over a July 2010 crude oil spill, which contaminated stretches of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. It was the largest penalty ever imposed by the US pipeline regulator."

"UK's Serious Fraud Office said that it will now be investigating the Libor scandal, widening its scope and opening the potential for criminal charges against individuals."

"Reality television show 'Big Brother' has come under the scanner of Britain's television regulator, OFCOM after a flurry of complaints against the British version of the show."