Comcast prepares to top Disney’s $50 billion offer for Fox
(Reuters) – Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) confirmed on Wednesday it was preparing a higher, all-cash offer for most of the media assets of Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA.O), setting up a bidding…
Russia’s VTB Bank says no longer lending to Deripaska: CNBC
MOSCOW (Reuters) – VTB (VTBR.MM), Russia’s second-largest bank, has stopped lending to sanctioned Russian metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska, VTB’s President Andrei Kostin told CNBC in an interview released on Wednesday.…
From Burkina to Zimbabwe, U.S. aid cuts squeeze family planning services
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – The Marie Stopes Ladies who drive from village to village in the remote north of Burkina Faso offering free contraception, advice on family planning, sexual health and…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg to apologise to EU lawmakers over data leak
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg arrived to meet European Union lawmakers on Tuesday ready to apologise for a massive data leak, in his latest attempt to draw a…
Beer maker AB InBev pumps up the volume in Africa
JOHANNESBURG/BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – Sitting outside the ramshackle Vimba Tavern in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township, Patrick Mashego swigs from a one-liter bottle of Carling Black Label, South Africa’s most popular beer. A…
London calling: why home-loving Hungarians are flocking to British capital – reporter
Which city has the largest Hungarian population after Budapest? London, is the surprise answer. Up to 400000 Hungarians have left the home country in the … source
Britain unlikely to investigate Comcast bid for Sky, says minister
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said it was unlikely to refer Comcast’s (CMCSA.O) bid for Sky (SKYB.L) for a lengthy investigation after an initial review found that the $30 billion offer…
PM May challenges scientists to help transform Britain after Brexit
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s prime minister challenged scientists on Monday to help diagnose cancer earlier and create zero-emission cars, trying to reboot an industrial strategy all but eclipsed by Brexit,…
British PM May calls on health, tech sectors to work on cancer
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will call on Britain’s health service, charities and artificial intelligence sector to work together to better identify patients with the early stages of…
Non-EU workers in UK worried about future right to work
Some EU nationals living in the UK are concerned about how a Brexit would affect their right to work there. The debate and divisions in the UK are already ……