Bayer ordered to pay more than $2 billion to US cancer victim

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Jury decided glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide caused cancer, but company will appeal

A US jury has ordered Bayer–Monsanto to pay over $2 billion (£1.6 billion) to a Georgia man who alleges the company’s glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer. The company says it will appeal the decision.