AFP - German drug maker Merck is to make a formal offer for rivals Schering next month, Merck boss Michael Roemer said in a newspaper interview.

AP - Mark Gottfried ripped the page about soft-selling his Alabama team out of old boss Jim Harrick's playbook.

AP - A former member of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood prison gang testified Thursday that gang kingpin Barry "The Baron" Mills once ordered a killing at the request of John Gotti after another inmate jumped the mob boss in a prison yard.

AFP - Jose Antonio Reyes will miss Arsenal's match with Charlton this weekend, Gunners boss Arsene Wenger said.

Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from an alleged Montreal mob boss over whether he is entitled to bail during a prolonged extradition fight.

Reuters - Uganda's army said on Thursday the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels had left a south Sudanese hideout and joined his deputy in the jungles of neighboring Congo.

AP - A $1.8 million lawsuit accusing a circus boss of a spy campaign against animal-rights groups was rejected by jurors Wednesday.

AFP - Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho insists he does not feel like the best coach in the world despite being hailed the number one for the second consecutive year.

Reuters - Mob boss Tony Soprano may be the toughest dad on television today, but the latest patriarch on prime time, Viagra-popping polygamist Bill Hendrickson on new cable TV drama "Big Love," is clearly busier.

AFP - Charlton boss Alan Curbishley insisted that no decision has been made yet following informal discussions he held with the Football Association (FA) regarding the England manager's job.

Takafumi Horie, the ex-boss of internet firm Livedoor, is expected to face further charges for falsifying accounts, reports say.

Corsican politician and casino boss Robert Feliciaggi is shot dead after leaving a plane at Ajaccio airport.

AFP - Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez said he was delighted that injured Mali midfielder Mohamed Sissoko had returned to training.

Reuters - Mob boss Tony Soprano may be the toughest dad on television today, but the latest patriarch on his way to prime time is clearly busier -- Utah polygamist Bill Hendrickson on new cable TV drama "Big Love."

AP - Seasoned Chilean politician Victor Barrueto knows who will be in charge when Michelle Bachelet takes over as the nation's first female president Saturday. "I have a lady boss now," said Barrueto, the next governor of Chile's largest province.

Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren is full of his praise for his side after their Uefa Cup first leg win over Roma.

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the United States has no quarrel with leftist leaders in Latin America and wants good relations with Bolivia under its new president, a coca growers union boss who once vowed to be "Washington's nightmare."

Reuters - A flight instructor said on Thursday he grew suspicious and urged his boss to call the FBI in 2001 after discovering Zacarias Moussaoui was touchy about being Muslim and paid in $100 bills to learn to fly jet airplanes.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer New Orleans, LA (AHN) - The Boss is heading to New Orleans to perform at this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, scheduled over two weekends -- April 28-30 and May 5-7. He's slated to close out the first weekend. Springsteen will perform with the...