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The French government will inject 10.5bn euros into the country's six largest banks, the finance minister announces.

Many of the world's financial leaders meet Friday in Washington, D.C. Their goal is to restore something that has turned out to be easy to lose and hard to get back: confidence in the financial markets.

British Finance Minister Alistair Darling says all governments will have to work together to restore market confidence.

Finance minister from the Group of Seven rich countries will be meeting in Washington to discuss the credit crunch.

France's economy risks shrinking for the second quarter in a row, says finance minister Christine Lagarde.

South African stock market traders are bracing themselves for further falls after finance minister Trevor Manuel's resignation this week.

EU finance minister approve Slovakia's euro entry, which is due to happen on 1 January 2009.

India's Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram produced a populist annual budget aimed primarily at helping the rural poor,

South Africa's finance minister pledges more funds in his latest budget to ease the nation's energy crisis.

A Norwegian protester took a lesson from Curly, Moe and Larry to make a political point.

He threw a cream cake at Norway's Finance Minister two years ago. The cake hit her on the back of the head but didn't hurt her, though it did mess up her clothes.

He was sentenced to 30 days in jail.