Becton Dickinson, an American medical equipment dealer, said it had agreed to acquire Bard, a multinational medical technology developer, for $24B.
Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe agreed to keep close contact on North Korea, while Pyongyang showed restraint as tensions rose sharply.
China showed progress on supply-side reforms and is expected to reach the 6.5% GDP growth objective this year, said China's finance minister Xiao Jie.
Donald Trump is set to sign at least two executive orders this week, including on the environment and energy, to facilitate their development in the US.
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, felt very encouraged after her visit to the US as a free trade agreement between the EU and the US is expected to be considered.
Early indications showed that the Euro inched higher to five-months high on Sunday amid Macron's victory in the first round of French Presidential Election.
According to the ICM poll, the UK's First Minister May's Conservatives held 48% of all votes, while Labour got 26% and the Liberal Democrats had 10%.
According to early projections, far-right leader Le Pen and Centrist Macron would face each other during French Presidential Election in May after Sunday's first round of voting.
According to Berlingske newspaper, Danish Defence Minister said that Russia had hacked Denmark's defence and got access to employees' emails between 2015 and 2016.
Italian prosecutor Zuccaro stated that during the fact-finding investigation, an evidence of the phone calls between aid groups' rescue boats and Libyan people smugglers had been found.
The UK's opposition parties stated that burka ban, end to Brexit and more holidays have been some of the policies that could prevent PM May's election victory in June.
A member of the OSCE, European security watchdog, who monitored a mission in Ukraine was killed, while two more people were injured after their car drove over a mine in Luhansk.
Senate Democratic Leader Schumer stated that the US lawmakers could achieve a short-term budget deal next week if Trump would not demand funding for the border wall.
The US President Donald Trump will sign a number of executive orders on energy next week, keeping a campaign promise to support the coal industry, a White House official said.
The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party chose a former member of the Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and an economist to lead a campaign for a September election.
The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for adherence to keeping peace and stability, and realising denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.
The US President Donald Trump warned Democrats that Obamacare was in serious trouble and would die without government funding far sooner than estimated.
Berlin will press Israel for a two-state solution so that Israel and Palestine can live in dignity and peace, the German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said.
Negotiations between Democrats and Republicans may strike a deal to prevent the US government shutdown as soon as Sunday, the White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said.
LafargeHolcim is to announce that chief executive Eric Olsen will step down after an internal investigation in a plant that the Swiss-French cement company operated in Syria.
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has suggested he would never use nuclear weapons, would halt air strikes on ISIS and withdraw British troops from Nato defences against Russia.
The US defence secretary Jim Mattis met Qatar's emir during a visit to the country he said aimed to "reinforce relationships" between Doha and Washington.
Morocco called neighboring Algeria to assume its responsibility in controlling illegal migration, the foreign ministry reported in his statement.
Islamic State militants have attacked an Iraqi police base in a town that is being used as a staging ground for the Mosul offensive, killing at three policemen.