ANKARA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Some 785 members of Turkey's labor ministry have been sacked for ties to the U.S.-based cleric who Ankara blames for orchestrating a failed coup in July, Turkey's labor minister said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign intelligence service is to get 40 percent more spies in one of the biggest expansions since the Cold War as MI6 seeks to harness new technology, the BBC said.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Korea Development Bank (KDB), the lead creditor of Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd <117930.KS> said on Thursday it will offer a 50 billion won ($45 million) credit line to help Hanjin unload stranded cargo.

COPENHAGEN, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Danish shipping and oil conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Thursday it will separate its businesses into separate transport and energy divisions in a bid to better tackle the problems facing its struggling businesses.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Mobile telecoms equipment maker Ericsson plans to close the last of its Swedish manufacturing sites as part of planned savings, cutting about 3,000 jobs, Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet reported.

SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Bosnia's autonomous Serb entity is set to defy its highest court with a referendum on a national holiday on Sunday that may stoke separatist sentiment lingering since the 1990s war.

BERLIN (Reuters) - German real wages rose by 2.3 percent on the year in the second quarter, data showed on Thursday, in another positive sign for private consumption which has become the main driver of growth in Europe's biggest economy.

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Norway's sovereign wealth fund said on Thursday: