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British retailers must provide clear information to investors about their income from suppliers, the country's accounting watchdog said on Monday as it investigates a book-keeping scandal at leading supermarket Tesco.

Merck & Co Inc said it would buy Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc for $8.4 billion plus assumption of debt, giving the major drugmaker an entry into the market for drugs that target so-called superbugs.

Gunmen broke into a prison in the central Nigerian city of Minna, freeing around 200 inmates, a police spokesman and security sources said.