Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. AP Møller-Maersk is to use its bumper shipping profits to take global the $3.6bn Asian warehousing ...

Merck & Co. is buying Schering-Plough Corp. for $41.1 billion in stock and cash in a deal that gives the companies more firepower to compete in a drug industry facing slumping sales, tough generic ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, will allocate $25 million to Uzbekistan’s Korzinka local supermarket chain for the expansion of its infrastructure ...

The plough, itself, developed from a simple hand-wielded tool into a powerful implement drawn by animals and then tractors, pulling a metal “mouldboard” to invert the earth as it is cut.