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[...] the two drugmakers will focus on other strategies to boost profits and sales quickly, with Pfizer saying it will decide by year's end whether to separate its global established products business, which sells older, mostly off-patent drugs. The companies' decision could deter other tax inversions in the works — exactly the impact the Obama administration is seeking by having Treasury issue 300-plus pages of new regulations that remove or reduce key financial benefits of a tax inversion. With... Читать дальше...

For once, a TV sensation lives up to the hype.

The People v. O.J. Simpson isn't a courtroom drama. It's not a campy retelling of the "trial of the century." It's not even a true crime thriller.

Okay, yes, it is occasionally all of those things, but as "The Verdict," the final episode of the 10-part miniseries, winds down, it reveals that The People v. O.J. Simpson is also something else: a ghost story.

The ghost that haunts the series, however, isn't any conventional spirit. Читать дальше...

With the hosts boasting a formidable scoring record and their Andalusian opponents struggling badly on the road, our tipster is backing the Basques to net in the first half

Vietnam's prime minister stepped down on Wednesday after 10 years in office, leaving behind a mixed legacy of promoting failed state enterprises but at the same time attracting foreign investment and daring to challenge China.

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Janet Jackson announced that she'll be delaying her Unbreakable tour to plan her family with husband Wissam Al Mana. 

Love Games: Nirvana song

Putting women soldiers on the front line would be a "foolish move" that would be "paid for in blood", says ex-British army chief Colonel Richard Kemp.

Nettleton Road in Clifton keeps its position as the most expensive street in the country in a new property survey. And nearby streets on Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard take the next five places on the list.

Sanctions "cannot produce a durable solution," he said

Take a look at SA comedian and Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s recent jab at President Jacob Zuma.

Russia will remain Armenia's strategic partner despite its military deliveries with Azerbaijan, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said Wednesday.

WikiLeaks expects that the so-called "Panama Papers" should be released in full, a spokesman for the whistleblower organization said.

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The biggest move in FX as of Wednesday, April 6 8:15 a.m is the Turkish lira following comments from Turkey's economy minister.

Here's the scoreboard:

• The Turkish lira is weaker by 0.8% at 2.8536 per dollar after Turkey's Economy Minister Mustafa Elitaş said that the central bank should "radically" cut rates, according to Bloomberg's Benjamin Harvey. Notably, there's currently some indecision about who will take the helm of... Читать дальше...

Law firm Mossack Fonseca, which has been at the center of the Panama Papers leak, acted for an Iranian oil company that had been blacklisted by the U.S., the Guardian reported, citing the leaked documents. The company reportedly realized that the Iranian oil firm Petropars Ltd. was a blacklisted company only in 2010 when another client accidentally fell foul of the U.S. sanctions imposed against the energy firm.

People lashed out over a young girl covering violent crimes after Hilde Kate Lysiak posted a story and video on her website about a suspected murder

Monsanto Co. reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that fell to $1.06 billion, or $2.41 a share, from $1.43 billion, or $2.92 a share, in the same period a year ago. The FactSet consensus for earnings per share was $2.42. Sales declined to $4.53 billion from $5.2 billion, missing the FactSet consensus of $4.73 billion, as sales of corn seed and traits and soybean seed and traits fell below expectations. The seed company cuts its fiscal 2016 EPS outlook to a range of $3.72 to $4.48 from $4.12 to $4.79... Читать дальше...

Justin Bieber blames his problems with ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez on her friend Taylor Swift, Hollywood Life reported Tuesday. In recent months, Gomez said that her on and off relationship with Bieber was over but reports about their rekindled romance surfaced after she was spotted attending the Canadian singer’s concert in Los Angeles last month.