independent car parts supplier. now ryanair has logged a seven percent fall in profit from april to september summer's a key season for europe's largest budget carrier but it took a hit from rising fuel costs and lackluster bookings that were marred by strikes ryanair says it will have to keep short haul tickets prices low prices low this winter and the carriers bracing for more damage cabin crews recently failed to remove an irate passenger who hurled racist insults at a woman a video of the incident was posted online. competition authorities in the u.s. and europe have approved the merger of two major industrial gas companies germany's lenda and u.s. based praxair the eighty billion dollars deal will create the world's biggest manufacturer of gases including oxygen helium and carbon dioxide the company's got the go ahead to merge after agreeing to sell off some assets including european gas business the deal is due to be completed within the coming days.