A Tunisian passenger plane crash-landed into the Mediterranean Sea today killing 19 people, a Palermo prosecutor said.

More than 150 beachgoers required treatment in the north-western Italian town of Genoa for high fever and breathing problems after inhaling a toxin produced by a tropical algae, officials said today.

Former New York Stock Exchange chief Richard A Grasso lashed back at the exchange yesterday, suing it for at least $50 million, claiming breach of contract and defamation on the part of current NYSE chairman John Reed.

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) yesterday called in securities regulators and the state attorney general Eliot Spitzer to investigate the circumstances that led to a $188m (€147.8m) windfall for Richard Grasso, its former chief executive and chairman.

New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso has resigned amid rising fury over his $139.5m (€124m) pay package, his 36-year career ruined by cries that he made too much money running the world’s richest financial market.

The head of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Grasso, was facing mounting pressure today after it emerged that some directors had doubts about his massive $140m (€199.4m) pay deal.

Nervous investors sent stocks plummeting on Wall Street’s first trading day since last week’s terrorist attacks.

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