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BBC News with David Legg. The German car giant Volkswagen has unveiled plans to take control of the German sports car firm Porsche. The move follows an abortive bid by Porsche to take over its lager rival who left it crippled with debts. The specialist high-performance Porsche brand will retain its separate identity but under the overall control of Volkswagen. The chief executive officer of Volkswagen Martin Winterkon said the combination of the two firms will be a strong one. ?The industrial logic is of course that both company fit together in an excellent way. They complement one another with individual products in an excellent way and more important of course is our common know-how of people of engineering who takes us further forward, so that we can be more successful in the global markets than today. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested 44 people including rabbis and city mayors as part of a massive corruption case in the state of New Jersey. The arrests were part of a ten-year investigation which uncovered illegal activity ranging from money laundering to kidney trafficking, in the US, Israel and Switzerland. A special agent in charge of the Newark FBI office Weysan Dun described those who he said use politics and religion to hide their criminal activity. ?The people that we have arrested today include mayors, deputy mayors, New Jersey State assemblymen, city councilmen, city council candidates, and a variety of other public officials ranging from commissioners to regulatory inspectors and of course a number of rabbis from the Jewish community. Share prices in the United States have closed at their highest level for eight months. The Dow Jones index in New York closed up nearly 200 points at 9069. Carryland Hevcurf has more from New York. Despite a deep US recession, some companies are holding up, boosting investor confidence and the value of shares. Earning results from auction website Ebay, Ford Motor Company, telecoms firm ATT a