Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group provided a 2025 profit forecast below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, saying it expects pressure across its government-supported health insurance businesses, and its shares fell 9%. The largest U.S. health insurer forecast a profit of as much as $30 per share. That upper end was below…
‘Palestinian civilians cannot be made to pay the price for defeating Hamas’, Wong’s office says Daniel Hurst The Australian government has said it is “appalled by the unacceptable deaths of innocent civilians as a result of Israel’s operations in Gaza”. A spokesperson for the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, made the comment this afternoon and…
Thousands of people who fled the onrushing Hurricane Milton are facing fuel shortages, debris and long traffic jams as they to return to damaged Florida communities that are confronted with lengthy rebuilds. Millions of people were urged to evacuate ahead of Milton, which slammed into western Florida on Wednesday as a category 3 hurricane, causing…
Dozens of attackers armed with guns, rockets and hand grenades have stormed a cluster of private coalmines in south-western Pakistan on Friday, shooting some miners in their sleep and others after lining them up, killing at least 21, police have said. The attack by about 40 armed men days before Pakistan hosts a summit of…
Wells Fargo reported lower earnings and revenue for the third quarter than a year ago on Friday amid a sizable decline in net interest income. Here’s what the bank did compared with Wall Street estimates, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.42 per share, not comparable to the $1.28 cents estimate…
Australia’s oldest lioness and her paired partner have been euthanised, leaving Adelaide zoo keepers in mourning. The zoo’s African lions, Amani and Mujambi, died on Thursday morning after 19-year-old Mujambi suffered a medical episode over the weekend. “It is with an extremely heavy heart that Adelaide Zoo announces the passing of African Lion pair female…
A dog saved her owner – who hurt his leg at home in rural Washington state, fell and couldn’t get up for hours – by walking to a road, sitting in the middle of it until a local sheriff’s deputy stopped, and leading the officer to him, according to authorities. Gita’s ability to be “a…
Georgia’s president has refused to sign into law a bill aimed at severely curtailing LGBTQ+ rights, weeks after the controversial legislation was passed by the country’s parliament. Last month Georgia’s parliament was heavily criticised after it approved the legislation, which sets out sweeping bans on same-sex marriages, adoptions by same-sex couples and curbs on gender-affirming…
In the scene from Back to the Future where Michael J Fox plays Johnny B Goode on stage and gets so caught up in the music that he knocks over his own amp, the room descends into a shocked and disapproving silence. A similar silence descended on the audience of a Boston gig on Friday…
A woman takes a selfie photo, with the Eiffel Tower in the background, at Surcouf street in Paris, on July 23, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Mauro Pimentel | Afp | Getty Images Euro zone inflation dropped to a three-year low of 2.2% in August, flash figures from statistics agency Eurostat showed…
