European Officials Accuse Facebook of Misleading Them on WhatsApp Deal European competition officials filed charges on Tuesday against Facebook, accusing the social media giant of making misleading statements to receive regulatory approval for its $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, the internet messaging service.

Red Sox deal Clay Buchholz to Phillies for minor leaguer Clay Buchholz, the longest-tenured member of the Boston Red Sox pitching staff, has been traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for minor league second baseman Josh Tobias, the teams announced Tuesday.

Volkswagen reaches $1-billion deal on the last diesel cars caught in emissions scandal Car company Volkswagen reached a $1-billion deal Tuesday that will give at least some owners of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught in the company's emissions cheating scandal the option of a buyback and provide all of them with compensation on top of any repurchase or repairs.

The evacuation of thousands of villagers in Aleppo was put on hold after the buses set to carry the evacuees were set on fire by fighter rebels. Although the evacuation has resumed after several hours of delay, many civilians are still waiting to be taken out of the war-torn area.

Iran requessted for a meeting of the joint commission regarding the extension of U.S. sanctions to the country.

After a failed attempt to buy Sky in 2010, Fox moved again to acquire 61% of the company through a $14.6 billion deal. The deal, however, faced opposition over concerns of potential over-concentration of power since Rupert Murdoch also owns stakes in other firms in the U.K.

Yahoo is under renewed scrutiny after its second disclosure of breach within this year. The major hacking incidents the company has been involved in puts a risk on its deal with Verizon. Although Verizon has not confirmed any plans of ditching the purchase, reports indicated that the company is demanding for better deal terms for the acquisition.

Verizon is said to have threatened to go to court to get out of the deal if it is not repriced. Yahoo YHOO -6. 11% came under renewed scrutiny by federal investigators and lawmakers on Thursday after disclosing the largest known data breach in history, prompting Verizon Communications VZ 0.

Ukraine commends EU step to secure association deal Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine President on Friday praised a European Union decision which paves the way for final agreement on a cooperation accord between Ukraine and the bloc.

Brexit trade deal could take 10 years, says UK's ambassador The post-Brexit UK-EU trade deal might take 10 years to finalise and still fail, Britain's ambassador to the EU has privately told the government.