Bloomberg The plastic explosive was molded into a thin sheet and hidden inside a laptop, the kind of hard-to-detect bomb that keeps airport security chiefs awake at night. Terrorist devices such as this are the reason fliers have to remove laptops from carry-on bags at security checkpoints before boarding airplanes. But at a lab in an industrial park outside …

  Frankfurt / AFP Troubled German lender Deutsche Bank reported on Thursday a surprise profit in the third quarter, confounding expectations of further expensive legal pain for the Frankfurt institution. “We continued to make good progress on restructuring the bank,” chief executive John Cryan said in a statement. “The results for the quarter demonstrate well the strengths of our operating …

  Bloomberg Barclays Plc said profit rose 35 percent in the third quarter as revenue from fixed-income trading surged to the highest in more than two years. Barclays Plc said profit rose 35 percent in the third quarter as revenue from fixed-income trading surged to the highest in more than two years. The results may help Chief Executive Officer Jes …