Belen Garijo, currently chief executive of Germany's Merck KGaA and previously a Sanofi vice president, will take over at the group's AGM in April, the company said. "Belen Garijo's brilliant international career attests to her strategic vision and...

The huge loss is twice as much as analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had predicted. The company, however, sharply lowered the forecast for its annual operating loss to 60 billion yen, citing the acceleration of its restructuring measures. That is far ...

The legislation, which covers charges used to lock up dissidents under Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez, aims to turn the page on nearly three decades of state repression. It was spearheaded by interim president Delcy Rodriguez, who replaced ...

The mother's actions helped lead to the conviction late Wednesday in a country where only a fraction of women file a police report after a sexual assault, and most of these cases never make it to court. The teenager was living in western France but...

"How To Get to Heaven from Belfast" -- which released Thursday on streaming giant Netflix -- is set in the present day, and features a new band of "women running around being chaotic, crazy and flawed". "I think female friendships are so complex, p...

It was the highest total of the tournament, beating the 213-4 posted by South Africa against Canada in Ahmedabad. Skipper Shanaka, who had been under pressure after a lean run, batted superbly smashing two fours and five sixes to post a 19-ball hal...

The high-bandwidth HBM4 chips are seen as a key component needed to scale-up the vast data centres powering the explosion in artificial intelligence. US tech giant Nvidia -- the world's most valuable company -- is widely expected to be one of Samsu...

Now the so-called "lovers' channel" in west Africa's largest lake city risks becoming a relic of the past, the once-adventurous secret meeting place rendered obsolete by loosening social norms and dating apps. "It's a beautiful story, but today......

"Whatever you do, you're judged," he told AFP at the giant Wine Paris industry fair this week where no- and low-alcohol wines and spirits had their own dedicated space for the first time. "I don't care about it, but it affects me when it's people c...

The foundations are for a hotel extension that attracted so much controversy last year that the country's top administrative court ended up temporarily blocking its building permit. Construction machinery still dots the site for a planned 59-room e...

It was a banner day for Team France on February 11, 2026, at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. In the women's 15km individual biathlon, Julia Simon claimed gold ahead of teammate Lou Jeanmonnot, who took silver. In moguls, Perrine Laffont grabbed b...

Herzog's tightly policed visit to Australia this week was meant to offer consolation to the country's Jewish community following the mass shooting on Bondi Beach that killed 15 people in December. However, it sparked demonstrations in major cities,...

Duren and Stewart were both handed multi-game suspensions for their part in a mass brawl during Monday's stormy victory over the Charlotte Hornets. But the absence of the two centers had little effect on Detroit as they coasted to a wire-to-wire vi...

Another victory in rugby union's oldest international fixture may even be used as fresh evidence that while Scotland can get themselves up for the full 80 minutes against the Auld Enemy, they often struggle to do likewise against other leading teams...

An Olympic champion already at the Milan-Cortina Games, she goes for a second gold on Sunday in the 500 metres event. So is 27-year-old Leerdam a leading star of her sport or more of an influencer? She certainly doesn't go unnoticed -- just like h...