Bayer offers $10bn to settle Roundup claims

Bayer has offered to pay more than $10bn (£7.9bn) to settle legal action brought by 125,000 Americans who say their cancers were caused by Roundup weedkiller. The move would resolve about three quarters of the claims brought against the German company over Roundup, which was made by Monsanto. Bayer bought the US firm two years ago for $63bn in a deal now regarded as one of the most disastrous takeovers in corporate history. "The Roundup settlement is the right action at the right time for