Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said Wednesday that it had struck a deal worth up to $5.3 billion to develop Danish biotech Zealand Pharma’s obesity drug candidate, as the two firms seek to compete in the burgeoning weight loss drug market. The deal will see the two companies co-develop and co-commercialize petrelintide, Zealand Pharma’s amylin analog as…
Snow coated Cheltenham racecourse on Wednesday morning, three days after the area experienced sunny weather with highs of 18C. Parts of the UK were warmer than Barcelona and the Costa del Sol as recently as Sunday, but yellow weather warnings for ice have now been issued in the north. Oli Claydon, a spokesperson for the…
A ‘For Sale’ sign is posted in front of a home for sale on March 5, 2025 in Pasadena, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Mortgage rates dropped to the lowest rate since October of last year, and that pushed demand even higher last week, after a substantial jump the previous week. Total mortgage applications…
Prices for goods and services moved up less than expected in February, providing some relief as consumers and businesses worry about the looming impact tariffs might have on inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The consumer price index, a wide-ranging measure of costs across the U.S. economy, ticked up a seasonally adjusted 0.2%…
China’s and U.S.’ flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters BEIJING — China is willing to do more to address White House concerns about illicit fentanyl trade, but it will be “a different thing” if ongoing debate over the drug facilitates more U.S. tariffs on…
Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced she is standing down as an MSP. Sturgeon, who led the Scottish National party from 2014 until her shock resignation in 2023, said she would not seek re-election in 2026, telling her Glasgow Southside constituency party members: “I have known in my heart for a while that…
EPA Passengers who made it to safety spoke of fear and panic on the train Passengers who were freed from a train seized by armed militants have spoken of “doomsday scenes” that unfolded on board the Jaffar Express in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. “We held our breath throughout the firing, not knowing what would happen next,”…
The co-founder and CEO of Pony.ai, one of the world’s leading autonomous vehicle technology companies, refused to be drawn on whether he thinks Tesla will launch its robotaxi service this year. “Tesla is big in scale, but we haven’t seen their large-scale testing yet,” James Peng said during CONVERGE LIVE. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has…
I expected to meet a dreaded “man-eater,” but when I saw it, I realized that it was a defenseless animal, more afraid of me than I was of it. That moment aroused my curiosity, and I decided to learn more about sharks. I travelled to the island of Guadalupe off the Pacific coast of Mexico…
The arrested captain of the Solong, a container ship that crashed into another vessel in the North Sea, is a Russian national, its management company has confirmed. The 59-year-old was arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter on Tuesday after Monday’s fiery collision about 12 miles off the East Yorkshire coast, which left one man…
