George M Tweedle

U.K. drink maker Diageo PLC (DGE.LN) is close to a deal to buy the Jose Cuervo tequila business from Mexico's Beckmann family for about $3 billion, the Sunday Times reports.

Volkswagen AG's (VOW.XE) labor chief rejects further acquisitions by the car maker in the foreseeable future, according to a pre-released interview for Monday's edition of business daily Handelsblatt.

One of Standard Chartered PLC's (STAN.LN) key U.K. investors has questioned the bank's decision to pay a $340 million fine for suspect Iranian dollar trades, despite insisting that the claims against it were flawed, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

Anglo American PLC (AAL.LN) is closing in on a deal to hand a stake in the Los Bronces project over to Chile at a discount of several billion dollars later this week, U.K. newspaper The Sunday Times reports.

The Qatari state investment fund has pushed the world's largest merger to the" brink of collapse" this weekend after building up a stake almost big enough to block the deal, the U.K. newspaper The Sunday Times reports.

Peyton Manning bounced right back up. Manning's home debut for the Denver Broncos was a mixed bag in a 30-10 preseason loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Saturday night. He led two scoring drives but threw two more interceptions and watched his teammates drop plenty of passes and cough up the ball.

Asdrubal Cabrera wasn't in any mood to discuss the error charged to him in the third inning that led to four unearned runs against the Cleveland Indians.

There is so much Chase Headley does for the San Diego Padres. However, on Saturday night, it was a play that Headley didn't make that proved costly. Joaquin Arias homered and drove in three runs, and the San Francisco Giants used another big inning with the help of Headley's defensive lapse to beat

Hurricane Gordon sped across the Atlantic early Sunday toward the eastern Azores islands, where a hurricane warning is in effect, U.S. forecasters in Miami said.