| October UK retail sales fall 0.1% [9 mins] Sales on the UK's high streets fell by 0.1% in October down for a second month in a row, Office for National Statistics' data showed. | Prolonged recession looms (Reuters) [37 mins][Japan] Reuters - Global economic misery spread on Thursday with the Federal Reserve predicting U.S. recession well into 2009, Japan's exports to Asia falling for the first time in six years and another sharp sell-off on global equity markets. |