The row centres on Deutsche Boerse's most rigorous market segment, the Prime Standard, which groups companies - 379 of them so far - that meet global standards of corporate governance.

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Porsche would like its shares included in Prime Standard, and argues that it meets all the criteria - except that it is only willing to produce a financial report every six months.

BBC: Porsche sues Frankfurt exchange

Exclusion from Prime Standard also means exclusion from the Dax, the main German share benchmark, and therefore makes Porsche's shares less likely to be bought by large investment funds which track indexes.

BBC: Porsche sues Frankfurt exchange

One of those comes in the form of a seemingly authentic ad (pictured after the break) that all but confirms that the K-7 (or K7D) will be a 14.6-megapixel DSLR, and will boast a new Prime II imaging engine, along with the increasingly standard HD video recording that we had heard about earlier.

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He told The Evening Standard he wanted to see Mr Miliband as prime minister "the sooner the better" and would encourage his supporters to vote Labour in the forthcoming local elections where there is no Respect candidate.

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Drogba, Ivory Coast's standard-bearer and all-time leading scorer, was the prime culprit as he headed wide from six yards and then failed to make contact with a perfect cross from Arthur Boka on the left.

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All companies pay the standard rate of 12.5 percent on profits from Irish operations, the prime minister said.

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As governor, Bush has zero foreign policy experience, except for occasional, perfunctory meetings with Mexican officials, standard fare for any border state governor, but surely no preparation for brokering a tough agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.

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