


Pfizer will buy cancer drug maker Medivation for $81.50 a a share in cash ($14 billion).
ChemChina’s proposed $43 billion takeover of Syngenta has been approved by a U.S. national security panel.
A group of Chinese investors is buying ad tech company Media.net for about $900 million in cash.
Kobe Bryant is launching a $100 million venture capital fund.
Israel bombed Gaza after a rocket from the territory landed in the Israeli town of Sderot.
At least 51 people were killed at a wedding in Turkey by a suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14.
Ryan Lochte said in an interview on Brazilian TV, “I wasn’t lying to a certain extent. I over-exaggerated what was happening to me.”
At the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe appeared in costume as Super Mario.
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