TOULOUSE, France-The aircraft manufacturer Airbus is performing a comprehensive review of its troubled A380 program, but insists no additional delays are in the offing. MORE
SHANGHAI, China-The Chinese government is investigating whether hundreds or perhaps thousands of children from poor areas in the southwest part of the country were sold to work as slave laborers in booming coastal factory cities. MORE
EVERETT, WA-Boeing has transferred its first 787 Dreamliner to an on-site test rig to begin performing a series of structural tests on the airplane’s cutting-edge composite airframe. MORE
DETROIT-General Motors Corp. says the nation's economic woes, not the strike at key supplier American Axle & Manufacturing Inc., have forced it to cut production of full-size pickups and SUVs by 143,000 units. MORE
MINNEAPOLIS-3M Co. is building a $200 million film-coatings plant in Singapore to eliminate up to $1 billion in freight, supply and tax costs from its overseas operations. MORE
TORONTO-Uunwillingness to hear bad news is not a new flaw, or a strictly corporate one. Stalin's refusal to heed reports of German troops massing at the border before the 1941 invasion of Russia is one example in which the boss literally shot the messenger. MORE
MILWAUKEE-Manitowoc-based Tower Tech has inked a deal to supply wind towers to a subsidiary of the Spanish company Gamesa, a leading player in the global wind industry. MORE
DEARBORN, MI-Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally may be pulling a repeat: Turning around the No. 2 U.S. automaker the same way he helped revive Boeing Co. MORE
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