Business

• Analysis - Sprint should raise Clearwire bid to avoid Dish tension June 19, 2013
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp should consider raising its offer price for Clearwire Corp or risk being saddled with a contentious relationship with Dish Network Corp , controlled by feisty billionaire Charlie Ergen. […]
• New bookkeeping rule to prise open insurers' "black box" accounts June 19, 2013
  LONDON (Reuters) - An international bookkeeping regime being unveiled on Thursday will iron out national variants in insurers' "black box" balance sheets although the transition will take several years and the United States will keep its own, very different rules. […]

UK

• British Supreme Court ruling threatens Western sanctions against Iran June 19, 2013
  LONDON (Reuters) - Western government sanctions against Iran suffered a big setback on Wednesday when Britain's top court ruled that the government was wrong to have imposed sanctions on the biggest Iranian private bank over alleged links to Tehran's nuclear programme. […]

World

• Italy court rejects bid to block Berlusconi tax fraud verdict June 19, 2013
  ROME (Reuters) - Italy's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Silvio Berlusconi to block a tax fraud conviction from October, clearing the way for a final verdict this year and deepening the uncertainty facing Prime Minister Enrico Letta. […]