Allianz interested in buying Australian insurance rival QBE
Oliver Baete, CEO of German insurer Allianz, met with John Neal, his counterpart at Australian competitor QBE, in December to discuss an acquisition of QBE, according to unnamed sources. Allianz could offer AUD15 ($11.32) per share, a 20% mark up on QBE's current share price, the source said. However, in a statement published 30 January, QBE denied that it was in talks with Allianz. Last week, Allianz was reported to be considering a joint takeover of Italian insurer Generali, with France's AXA and Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo.
German woman ‘killed lookalike to fake her own death’

A German-Iraqi woman murdered a lookalike she found on social media to fake her own death, police have said as new details emerge of the bizarre case that first came to light last year. The body of a 23-year-old woman…