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Twenty-one people who were crushed to death a week ago at a music festival in the western German city of Duisburg were remembered today at a memorial service attended by Chancellor Angela Merkel and other German leaders.

Sanofi-Aventis SA may have to pay at least $80 a share, or $21.3 billion, to acquire genetic-disease drugmaker Genzyme Corp. as activist directors drive up the price, investors in the U.S. biotechnology company say.

The Liberal Party and the Christian Democratic Alliance agreed to form a government with the support of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party, creating the Netherlands’ first minority Cabinet since World War II.