Bayer (BAYGn.DE) has offered to pay $2.4 billion for Norway's Algeta (ALGETA.OL), its partner for a new prostrate cancer treatment, at a 27 percent premium to the stock's last close, Algeta said on Tuesday.
The deal would boost Bayer's drugs...
China wants to double trading volumes with central and eastern members of the European Union in the next five years, Li Keqiang said on his first visit to the former communist bloc as premier.
China and the EU announced at...
Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino has said Ajax should take encouragement from the fact that four-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi will miss their Champions League clash on Tuesday.
However, the Argentine remains supremely confident that the players he...
The Bank of England is to review whether it needs more powers to control banks' balance sheets.
Bank governor Mark Carney said Chancellor George Osborne had asked the Bank's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) to review its powers.
The FPC regulates banks,...
AC Milan midfielder Kaka hopes a win over Celtic in the Champions League on Tuesday could be the turning point in his club's turbulent campaign.
Kaka and company travelled to Glasgow on Monday sitting a lowly 13th in Serie A...
Midfielder Mathieu Flamini returns after suspension for Arsenal against Marseille with the Gunners aiming to reach the Champions League last 16.
Forward Theo Walcott is also in contention after playing in the 2-0 win over Southampton following two months out...
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a security deal with the United States, the White House said, opening up the prospect of a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from the strife-torn nation next year.
Karzai told U.S. National...
An independent Scotland would keep the British pound, the queen and remain in the European Union but have its own defense force and collect its own taxes, First Minister Alex Salmond said in a report published on Tuesday.
In a...
Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead two Russian military instructors in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday, a Yemeni police source said.
The source said the instructors, who worked with the Yemeni army, were shot as they left a hotel where...
Abu Huseyin says he has sent dozens of people from this ancient city in southeastern Turkey to join jihadist groups in northern Syria and vows to continue helping them fulfill what he says is their duty to God.
Several hundred...
Describing the allegations as entirely false, Adedeji said they were the handiwork of individuals determined to discredit him and weaken public confidence in the Tinubu administration.
