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The latest device may stub out its own aims by encouraging youth to take up the habit

Private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC will buy LifePoint Health Inc in a deal valued at about $5.6 billion, the U.S. hospital operator said on Monday.

Sri Lankan shares ended weaker on Monday, slipping from the last session's three-week closing high, but foreign buying prevented steeper losses.

* Lower 60 pct of earners behind most of 2016-2017 consumption growth

Most Southeast Asian markets erased early losses on Monday while Indonesia extended gains for a second straight session, driven by consumer staples and telecommunication stocks. Indonesian shares, up 0.7 percent, were the biggest gainers in the region. The country's central bank last week kept its benchmark interest...

Wall St executives say London losing edge against New York after Trump deregulation drive

U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group has secured EU antitrust approval to acquire a majority stake in Thomson Reuters' Financial and Risk unit, the European Commission said on Monday.

* Atos sees double-digit EPS growth from deal (Adds details, analyst and CEO quotes, details on results)

A consortium led by KKR & Co agreed to acquire Taipei-listed LCY Chemical Corp in a $1.56 billion stock deal, the companies said on Sunday, marking it the U.S. private equity firm's first deal in the island in more than a decade.

The majority of the roughly 3 million people with Turkish roots who live in Germany are well integrated, a spokeswoman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday, after German soccer star Mesut Ozil quit the national team citing racism.