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Two restaurant chains in France are at war over the recipe for the delectable sauce served with steak-frites. Photo: Bistro Régent

The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that generics firm Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is in advanced talks to buy Allergan’s generics business for $45 billion. Here are three big questions ahead of any formal announcement.

The world’s greatest cycling race ended in Paris Sunday with Great Britain’s Chris Froome wearing the yellow jersey for the second time in three years. WSJ’s Joshua Robinson wraps up 2015 Tour de France. Photo: AP

Palm oil is a cheap and widely consumed vegetable oil. Controversy has surrounded the palm-oil industry, even as demand for the oil has surged in recent years, as explained in a Wall Street Journal article. Here are five things to know about palm oil and its issues.

The palm-oil plantations of Malaysia have become magnets for refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar. Many have complained of onerous working conditions and few legal protections. Photo: Syed Zain Al-Mahmood/The Wall Street Journal

Marvel's newest superhero flick beats out newcomers 'Pixels,' 'Southpaw,' and 'Paper Towns.'

Several of the 2016 presidential candidates hit the Sunday talk shows. Here are some of the top quotes.

A milk cap developed by scientists at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan demonstrates the potential of 3-D printing for creating electronics. Photo: Jake Nicol for The Wall Street Journal.

The GSR Ventures’ fund will target deals to acquire companies in technology, Internet and biotechnology industries for which the Chinese market is key to growth prospects, sources said.

Republican presidential candidates on Sunday blasted Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while secretary of state, seizing on recent allegations from the intelligence community’s inspector general that she improperly sent at least four emails with classified material.

Teva is in talks to combine with Allergan’s big generic-drug business, a $45 billion deal that would further consolidation in the health-care industry.

The Taliban seized a police base in northeastern Afghanistan and briefly captured more than 100 policemen, dealing one of the most severe blows to Afghan forces since they took over combat responsibilities from foreign troops.

Introducing himself as the U.S.’s first Kenyan-American president, Barack Obama sought to use his unlikely success story and personal ties to his father’s homeland to inspire a country he described as “at a crossroads.”

An NBC News/Marist poll released Sunday found Donald Trump in first place among New Hampshire GOP primary voters and two percentage points behind Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Iowa.

Police opened fire on a car that tried to ram through the barricades in central Paris hours before the final leg of the Tour de France was due to pass through, police said.

A small plane crashed into a Tokyo neighborhood Sunday, killing three people, while three others were pulled alive from the wreckage.

German regulators told former Deutsche Bank co-CEO Anshu Jain this month that they no longer suspected he purposely misled German central-bank officials in a 2012 query about Libor rigging.

Federal regulators are close to hitting Fiat Chrysler with a record $105 million fine for recall lapses with millions of vehicles, said people familiar with the matter, adding to mounting scrutiny of the auto maker’s safety practices.

While Australians are still feeling the pain of a slowing economy, their lawmakers appear to be stuck fighting the same climate and immigration battles that dominated the previous election.

Israeli drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical is in talks to combine with Allergan’s big generic-drug business, a $45 billion deal that would further consolidation in the health-care industry and likely mean the end of Teva’s pursuit of a resistant Mylan.

Here's what to look out for in the week starting July 27: The Fed announces its July rate decision, Barack Obama travels to Ethiopia, and the IOC elects a host for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Donald Trump said there was no cap in the amount of money he would be willing to put into his campaign for the Republican nomination for president if his message continues to resonate with voters.