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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour bolted off its seaside launch pad in Florida on Monday, carrying six astronauts on a voyage to install the last two main pieces of the International Space Station.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People are afraid to lose money and an unusual study released on Monday explains why — the brain’s fear center controls the response to a gamble.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian share markets struggled to hold firmer ground on Tuesday but won some respite from recent losses, while the euro rose tentatively as investors took a break from selling it off over fiscal concerns in the euro zone.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp will recall around 436,000 hybrid cars worldwide, including the 2010 Prius model, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS posted its first quarterly net profit since Oswald Gruebel took the helm a year ago, but client withdrawals rose well above forecasts, signaling he may need more time to steady the ship.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda wrote in an article published on Tuesday that he has promised the top U.S. transportation official the troubled automaker will be more vigilant in the future about responding to safety regulators.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Macquarie Group , Australia’s top investment bank, forecast a disappointing second-half profit and gave an outlook that raised worries about its key equity business, sending its shares sliding 7 percent.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - CIT Group Inc said its new Chief Executive John Thain will get an annual base salary of million, most of which is in stock, and a bonus of up to another .5 million, in a nod to compensation practices popularized by the Obama administration’s pay czar.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A revamp of the financial system needs to be global in nature to prevent a repeat of the worst financial crisis in some 70 years, a top Federal Reserve policy maker said on Monday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Airlines Corp will keep its partnership with American Airlines in the Oneworld alliance due to concerns that forging ties with rival suitor Delta Air Lines would make it difficult to achieve a quick turnaround, a source with knowledge of the matter said.