British pharma company one of biggest fallers on FTSE 100 despite better than expected financial results Business live – latest updates Shares in GSK slid on Wednesday despite the UK drugmaker reporting better than expected financial results, as investors were unnerved by weaker sales of its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and shingles vaccines and recently launched medications. Britain’s second-biggest pharmaceutical company reported a 19% decline in pre-tax profit to £1.
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Test results have confirmed his diagnosis as a lung adenocarcinoma that was localised.

Experts say the hack could leave agents vulnerable to scams, blackmail and targeted attacks.

In Liberia, joint financial planning boosted cash aid's benefits. It also had an unexpected consequence for some families.

Highway Test Reveals Limits for Connected Vehicle Communication. The results hint at how to improve collective perception at
Nearly a quarter of girls’ entries received one of the higher grades against around a fifth of those from boys Almost one in four boys in England get top grades in maths Myles McGinley, managing director of the Cambridge OCR exam board, said more pupils are taking GCSE business studies than in previous years, describing this generation of young people as “increasingly entrepreneurial”. He said business studies entries are a third higher than five years ago, adding: “The founders of some of the next great unicorn businesses may well be among those achieving GCSEs in business studies today.
Strong corporate results buoy market as investors move money away from tech and semiconductor stocks London’s FTSE 100 stock index has touched a...
‘Malicious actor’ obtains sensitive data including Medicare numbers, treatment details and pathology results in cyber-attack on Partnered Health...
Annual results show struggling firm’s net debt has risen to £19. 7bn, up from £17.
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With 85% of ballots counted, Netanyahu's Likud party and its allies are set to win 53 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.
With nearly all votes counted, Netanyahu’s coalition government has lost its majority, but main opponents also fail to gain outright majority; marked gains by Palestinian parties Israel election – live updates Full report: Coalition talks loom in Israel Analysis: Rise of Palestinian parties will redraw political landscape With almost all votes counted, Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government has lost its majority, but his main opponents, an alliance of Jewish Israeli parties unofficially led by Gadi Eisenkot , have also failed to gain an outright majority. Israeli media report that Netanyahu’s bloc is ahead, with projections he could take 53 seats under the current vote share, but this could change further.
Israeli voters turned out in record numbers, and the results remain too close to call. And, more than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola since the outbreak was first declared in May.
Tightly fought election saw record turnout as incumbent mayor ran against her rival Brad Bradford The mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, promised more rental housing, free school lunches and reduce fares for frequent transit riders after she was elected to a decisive second term as mayor in a wave of support for progressive councillors. The tightly fought election saw record turnout but Chow ultimately turned in a dominant 13-percentage-point win over her rival, Brad Bradford, receiving 54% of the vote compared with his 41%.
After a shock defeat in the first round, the incumbent Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has turned the election around to win the runoff. Live blog: latest analysis and reaction Brazil’s president is elected purely by the popular vote.

Voters in Canada's oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, with early referendum results Tuesday delivering a boost to Prime Minister Carney's push for national unity.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is standing against Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential race Brazil’s president is directly elected:...

The chancellor has come under increasing pressure after resounding state election defeats, but says the results "go far beyond my own person"

Preliminary results suggest that Kremlin-backed United Russia is on course to retain its constitutional majority.
The Reform UK leader forced a vote that failed to make financial questions disappear, only the man himself • Clacton byelection – UK politics live Dawn had long broken in the Essex town of Clacton-on-Sea when the results for the byelection came in. After a gruelling count, an atmosphere of deep exhaustion had settled over the room.
Education minister Jason Clare says the results showed ‘real challenges’ but numeracy scores were heartening Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Reading and writing scores are going backwards for almost every age group in Australia’s national standardised school tests, with one in three students still failing to meet Naplan benchmarks. This year’s tests were taken in March by 1.
These visualisations from exclusive polling modelling show how the UK parliament could change under different voting systems New analysis produced...
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This blog had now closed – our live Israel election results coverage continues here Israel election results live updates Across Israel , voting is now under way. Here are some of the latest images being sent to us over the newswires: Tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad have flown in for the elections, according to Aid Coalition , a US-based nonprofit focused on strengthening Israel’s democracy.
70% vote against tightening centuries-old neutrality, which far right said was being eroded by sanctions against Russia Swiss voters have decisively rejected a proposal for a strict definition of neutrality that would have required Switzerland to curb cooperation with Nato and abandon sanctions against Russia. All cantons and about 70% of voters rejected the proposal for a strictly defined version of neutrality to be written into the Swiss constitution, final results from the Federal Statistical Office showed.
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Russian foreign policy expert Hanna Notte about the results of Russia's parliamentary election and what it means for Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin will likely use the result to claim most Russians back the so-called special military operation in Ukraine, writes the BBC's Steve Rosenberg.
Damage recorded in 30 locations across in the city from overnight attacks, with ‘most of them ordinary residential buildings’ in Dublin Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he hopes not to wait too long for the results of an Irish government investigation into alumina exports to Russia thought to be feeding the Kremlin’s war machine. “Unfortunately there are companies in Europe that are owned or effectively controlled by Russia and its sanctioned oligarchs.
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