Dutch arrest meat works owner in horse meat probe
Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation ...
Glaxo, US partnering to develop new antibiotics
GlaxoSmithKline PLC says it's starting an unusual collaboration with the U.S. government to develop several antibiotics for both bioterrorism threats ...
Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5B deal
Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.5 billion which would create the third-biggest specialty ...
Russian TV: American accused of spying flies out
The U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying in Moscow flew out of Russia on Sunday, five days after he was ordered to leave the country, NTV ...
UK court jails 4 Lulzsec hackers for cyberattacks
Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were ...
Daimler unveils new flagship Mercedes model
Daimler AG has unveiled the newest version of its S-Class model from luxury brand Mercedes-Benz, a car that will play a key role in the company's ...
US approves radiation-based prostate cancer drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new injectable drug that uses radiation to treat advanced prostate cancer that has spread to the ...
Asia stocks up as US small business mood improves
Enthusiasm on Wall Street sparked by another positive report on the U.S. economy helped push most Asian stock markets higher Wednesday. The National ...
Hospital to probe East German medical trials
Berlin's renowned Charite hospital said Monday it plans to investigate allegations that patients in communist East Germany were used as unwitting ...
Nations agree to new chemical ban, export controls
A summit on chemicals and hazardous wastes ended Friday with an agreement to globally phase out a widely used flame retardant and to accept stricter ...
Adidas: Asia laborers can send complaints via text
German sports gear maker Adidas said Monday it is encouraging workers in factories of some of its Asian suppliers to anonymously share possible ...
Pirelli offers new tire ahead of Spanish GP
Amid concerns that Formula One tires are degrading too quickly, Pirelli says it will introduce a new hard tire similar to last year's product.
Bayer profits up 11.5 percent on new drugs
German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer AG said Thursday that its net profit rose 11.5 percent in the first quarter as new drugs, led by ...
Volvo posts Q1 loss on steep sales drop
Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo sank into a first quarter loss as sales slid to a five-year low, the company said Thursday. First quarter sales for the ...
Novartis posts profit gain thanks to new drugs
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG reported a 6.7 percent increase in profit for the first quarter Wednesday, boosted by new products and ...
US device will screen for fake medicines overseas
U.S. health officials are making a high-tech screening device available in Africa to help spot counterfeit malaria pills in hopes that the technology ...
Google fined by German data protection agency
A German data protection agency fined Google Inc. 145,000 euros ($189,000) for illegally recording information from unsecured wireless networks — an ...
Lufthansa cancels about 1,700 flights amid strike
Ground staff at Lufthansa, Germany's biggest airline, walked off the job Monday on a one-day strike that prompted the company to cancel most of the ...
Nokia cuts losses but sales continue to plummet
Nokia continues to take a hammering in the smartphone market, with sales for the handset maker falling by 20 percent in the first three months of the ...
AP Interview: Israel's Olmert begins tech venture
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert joined forces Thursday with a leading Kazakh industrialist and an Israeli entrepreneur to launch a new ...
Dutch court upholds recall of suspect meat
A Dutch court on Thursday upheld a decision by the country's Food and Consumer Product Authority to recall 50,000 tons of meat sold across Europe as ...
EU: Test show no safety issues with horsemeat
More than 7,000 tests across the European Union have shown that nearly 5 percent of the food products labeled as beef contained horse meat, but there ...
Dutch company linked to horse meat fraud bankrupt
A meat processing plant and wholesaler suspected of mixing undeclared horse meat with beef was declared bankrupt Tuesday by one judge and the owner ...
Bitcoin bursts: Hacker currency gets wild ride
It's a promising form of electronic cash free from central bankers and beloved by hackers. It — Bitcoin — may also be in trouble, registering ...
Bitcoin hacker currency bursts into mainstream
With $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink recently struck the kind of deal that's feeding the rise of a new ...
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