Bayer

JERUSALEM - The pictures are haunting: black-and-white prints of a snow-covered barracks and paintings bordered by wire fences and skeletal trees, grim depictions of a World War II camp in France where Jews were interned before being transported to concentration camps.

A woman has been appointed for the very first time as the manager of the Turkish Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) since the institution's establishment in 1826.

Flute artist Sibel Ayhan Bayer will serve in the CSO's top post for a year.

"We have many female artists in the orchestra, and I think women can also succeed in management," Bayer told Demirören News Agency.

Greece's new health minister, Thanos Plevris, on Wednesday afternoon issued an apology for past statements he made as the defense counsel for his father, whom critics in the country and abroad consider a Holocaust denier, and following a same-day critical announcement by the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS).

The permanent contraceptive is better, especially the one produced by German Bayer, many Brazilian women thought. But the Essure contraceptive harmed their health. The case is now in court.

According to world media, witnesses said they saw smoke, and the German Civil Protection Agency was declared an "extreme danger" alert.

Shares in German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer tumbled more than 10 percent as markets opened Monday, as investors reacted to a shock US ruling against freshly-acquired Monsanto.

German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer will discard the name Monsanto when it takes over the controversial U.S. seeds and pesticides producer this week, the group said on June 4.

The European Commission has launched an “in-depth” investigation into the proposed merger of global agriculture giants Monsanto and Bayer, amid concerns that it may create too high a concentration and disrupt competition in the areas of pesticides and seeds.

The CEO of Germany's Bayer AG is promising it won't use its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. to force genetically modified crops on skeptical Europeans.

BELGRADE - German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer reached an agreement with the US agricultural company Monsanto to buy the US-based corporation in a deal worth about $65 billion, media reported Wednesday.