Bloomberg Cancer drugmaker Medivation gained nearly 20 percent after the announcement it would be bought by Pfizer, but Wall Street stocks were otherwise generally flat. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 0.1 percent at 18,529.42 while the S&P 500 fell less than 0.1 percent to 2,182.64. The tech-heavy Nasdaq, where Medivation is listed, rose 0.1 percent 5,244.60 Chris ...

  Frankfurt / AFP Volkswagen AG negotiated through the night to reach an agreement with a rebellious supplier, ending a six-day standoff that halted production of Golf and Passat cars after the parts maker refused to deliver seat and transmission components. Prevent Group will restart deliveries as soon as possible, and Volkswagen’s factories affected will gradually return to normal production, ...

  Ankara / AFP Turkey on Tuesday pounded IS extremists in Syria with new artillery strikes as expectations grew of a major Ankara-backed offensive against the extremists after a deadly suicide bombing on its soil. With tensions flaring on the Turkey-Syria border following the bombing in the nearby city of Gaziantep that left 54 people dead, Turkish howitzers hit extremist and ...