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GSK spin-off to create consumer healthcare giant

British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline on Monday demerges its newly-named consumer healthcare unit Haleon, resulting in what is set to be London's largest new stock market listing in more than a decade.. - 'Landmark London listing - "This will be the largest London stock market listing in a decade, with the new company becoming a big beast with a new skin in the consumer goods world," said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 2 mins read

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From catwalk to perp walk: Colombian designer awaits fate on smuggling charges

Colombian celebrity designer Nancy Gonzalez's fall from grace was sudden and spectacular: taken in handcuffs from her luxury home in Cali last week to a Bogota jail cell, accused of smuggling protected animal skin purses into the United States.. Footage released by the Colombian prosecutor's office showed the glamorous businesswoman led away in handcuffs after a raid on her luxury home in Cali last week.

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 2 mins read

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US struggles to meet monkeypox vaccine demand

The United States, which is forecasting an increase in monkeypox cases in the coming weeks, does not currently have enough vaccines to meet demand, a top health official said Friday.. "We don't yet have all the vaccine that we would like in this moment," she told reporters during a press conference, warning that authorities "anticipate an increase in cases in the coming weeks."

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 2 mins read

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US House passes bills to protect abortion access, Senate approval unlikely

The US House of Representatives adopted two bills on Friday aimed at protecting access to abortion after the Supreme Court ruled that individual states can ban or restrict the procedure.. The other bill adopted on Friday would provide legal protection to women who leave one state to undergo an abortion in another.

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 1 mins read

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Danish rollercoaster closes after teen killed

A Danish amusement park said Friday it had closed a rollercoaster ride a day after an accident in which a teenage girl was killed and 14 years after four other people were injured in a separate incident.. The fatal accident happened on Thursday afternoon when a car broke loose, killing a 14-year-old girl from Copenhagen and injuring a 13-year-old boy, police said.

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 0 mins read

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Bones unearthed at Waterloo two centuries after battle

A British-led archaeological dig has uncovered new human bones at the site of the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium.. The dig was then interrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 1 mins read

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Senegalese circus troupe teaches kids to dream

Marietou Thiam's slender figure twists and twirls, suspended in mid-air by a hoop, under the spellbound gaze of onlookers at Dakar's first-ever circus festival. . Thiam is the artistic director -- and one of only two women members -- of Sencirk, Senegal's premier circus troupe, which organised the festival.

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 1 mins read

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UK owes apology for 'grave wrong' of forced adoptions: inquiry

Britain should formally apologise to unmarried mothers who were forced to give up their babies for adoption, according to an official report Friday that gave harrowing detail of the anguish suffered by the women.. "The mothers' only 'crime' was to have become pregnant while unmarried.

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 2 mins read

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India reports first case of monkeypox

India has reported its first confirmed case of monkeypox after a 35-year-old man with a history of travel to the Middle East showed symptoms, officials said.. The federal government rushed a multi-disciplinary team to the southern state of Kerala in view of the confirmed case of monkeypox there, according to an official statement.

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 1 mins read

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'True balance': Japan's quiet telework revolution

Posted far from home for his job at Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, father of two Tsutomu Kojima was "really lonely" until he began working remotely during the pandemic for the first time.. The couple now mostly do their jobs in communication and marketing remotely from Fujisawa, southwest of the capital, having struggled to both work from home in Tokyo.

Thu, Jul 14, 2022 3 mins read