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- 2008-08-14
BERLIN AFP — Germany's keeper Rene Adler will not play against Belgium on August 20 at Nuremberg because of a shoulder injury, his club Bayer Leverkusen said on Thursday. The 23-year-old keeper was hurt during training and suffered bruising, the club added. Adler will also miss the first day...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Belgium, Germany
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- 2008-06-03
BRUSSELS AFP — Fifteen Belgian colza fields, owned by Bayer CropScience, have been contaminated by genetically modified organisms GMOs banned in Europe, the country's public health ministry announced Tuesday. The Bayer subsidiary, which specialises in improving crop yields, informed the Belgian authorities of the contamination, which happened last month...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Belgian, HEALTHCARE
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- 2008-04-08
PARIS AFP — Spanish side Getafe better be prepared for Thursday's UEFA Cup quarter-final second leg match as German giants Bayern Munich are 'angry' according to their coach Ottmar Hitzfeld. The Germans travel to Spain in shaky shape as they were held 1-1 in Munich last Thursday, a late...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Games, INTERNET, SECURITY
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- 2008-04-03
LEVERKUSEN, Germany AFP — Bayer Leverkusen boss Rudi Voeller said Zenit St Petersburg produced a performance more suited to the Champions League after the Russians' crushing 4-1 UEFA Cup quarter-final win here. Lacklustre Leverkusen were dazzled at home in the first-leg clash as the Russian champions blew the Bundesliga...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, performance
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- 2008-04-03
BERLIN AFP — Germany midfielder Thomas Hitzlsperger says VfB Stuttgart are fully focused on avenging the 4-1 hammering they took in Hamburg last October when the title-rivals clash again on Saturday. Defending Bundesliga champions Stuttgart were trounced at Hamburg's HSH Nordbank Arena last autumn when home striker Ivica Olic...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Games, Germany
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- 2008-03-29
BERLIN AFP — More than a year after his return to coach Bayern Munich, Ottmar Hitzfeld takes the Bundesliga leaders to relegation-threatened Bayer Leverkusen knowing the title is now theirs to lose. When Hitzfeld returned in January 2007 for his second spell in charge, Bayern were about to limp...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Berlin, Games, INTERNET, league
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- 2008-03-22
BERLIN AFP — Bayern Munich's Italian World Cup winner Luca Toni struck twice as the German giants went seven points clear at the top of the Bundesliga with a 2-1 win over title rivals Bayer Leverkusen. Bayern took an early lead on 17 minutes as Germany forward Miroslav Klose...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Games
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- 2008-02-18
FRANKFURT AFP — German drug group Bayer said Monday that it had halted trials of its leading cancer treatment Nexavar for one of the main forms of lung cancer. Bayer said Phase III trials in patients with non-small cell lung cancer NSCLC had been stopped because Nexavar, already used...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG
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- 2008-02-13
BERLIN AFP — Despite his team's three-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge insists the German giants are treated harshly by referees in the domestic league. Rummenigge says referee Thorsten Kinhoefer's decision to disallow a goal by Bayern striker Luca Toni in the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Berlin
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- 2008-02-12
BRASILIA AFP — Brazil's National Biosecurity Council on Tuesday authorized the planting and sale of two types of genetically modified corn, angering some rural groups which consider them environmentally risky. Science and Technology Minister Sergio Rezende said the decision by the 11 cabinet ministers making up the council "is...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Benefits, Biotechnology, Brazil, HEALTHCARE, MARKETING, SOFTWARE
