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A $160 billion deal announced Monday to merge Pfizer and Allergan and create the world’s biggest drug company renewed the outcry in Washington over “inversions”, in which US corporations combine with companies overseas to lower their tax bill.

During the evening of December 4, Tornado GR4s and Typhoon FGR4s, based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, conducted a further series of strikes on targets in the very large IS-controlled oilfield at Omar in eastern Syria, MoD said on Saturday in a statement.

The Labor Department on Friday reported the US gained 211,000 jobs last month, with jobs figures for October and September nudged higher as well.

Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said his country would further raise output next year after having steeply increased production in 2015.

The combined company, which will be called Pfizer plc, will bring together a huge US pharmaceutical company best known for iconic drugs like the cholesterol-fighting Lipitor and erectile dysfunction medication Viagra with Allergan, which is best known for making wrinkle-smoothing...

He may only be a few hours old but the world has already gone into meltdown with news that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have welcomed a baby boy into the world.

The pace of contraction in China’s manufacturing sector slowed in November and the services sector grew, signs that the country’s transition to a consumption-driven economy is back on track after a torrid summer, surveys showed Tuesday. In China, South Africa’s...

Sunday’s protest will come on the heels of the police reports in the McDonald shooting not matching the dash-cam video, and the mayor’s op-ed piece saying the city was following procedure in not releasing the video and it was in now way a cover-up. The officer...

The ECB overnight deposit rate was cut from -0.2% to -0.3% to push banks to lend instead of parking money at the ECB, Mr Timms said.

Employers have now added a robust average 213,000 jobs a month over the past six months. September and October data were revised to show 35,000 more jobs than previously reported. Futures indicated a 100 point gain in the Dow Jones industrial average when the market opens at 9:30...

The Labor Department’s revised job growth for September and October was up by a combined 35,000.

“We call on the Turkish authorities to withdraw its military force from Iraqi territories and not repeating such an incident that hurt the relations between the two neighboring countries”, Masum said.

WASHINGTON | The U.S. economy generated another month of solid hiring in November, making it highly likely that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates from record lows this month. Payrolls climbed by 211,000 last month following a 298,000 gain in October that was larger...

In addition, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) fell 1.4%, and the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE) fell 2% on December 3, 2015. More radical options under discussion included the purchase of corporate debt or a split deposit rate that would punish banks parking too much cash...

Yet Target, which offered 15% discounts on nearly all online items, still reported its biggest online sales day ever.