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The pharmaceutical watchdog has reprimanded Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk for failing to correctly disclose dozens of payments to the UK health sector as it sought to boost sales of its slimming drugs.

The Danish drug giant –

Europe’s most valuable listed company

Andrew Moss despairs, even now, when he thinks back to the end of January 2020. It was a painful, traumatic time for anyone building an export business in the UK.

On 30 January, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a public health emergency of ­international concern. The ­following day, the …

From a modern control room high above the canal expansion – overlooking the Cocolí locks, then lakes, rainforest canopy and, eventually, the Atlantic ocean – it barely registers that the era of gunboat diplomacy is returning to the

Panama canal

But four days into Donald Trump’s second …

‘My alcohol in­take has plummeted,” says Hannah. “Since taking Wegovy I hardly ever crave a drink when I get home. When I used to go out with friends, I was nearly always the last one standing; now I’m leaving two hours before closing.”

In her early 30s, the Londoner is …

As the first flight touched down on the fresh tarmac at Gwadar, it was hailed by Pakistan’s government as a step towards “progress and prosperity”. The newly opened airport – now the largest in the country – built in Pakistan’s troubled Balochistan province was “a symbol of the cooperation between …

Keir Starmer is under growing pressure to forge closer economic links with Europe five years on from Brexit, as a major new poll shows voters clearly favour prioritising more trade with the EU over the US.

The

MRP survey

Rachel Reeves needs to rid herself of ­troublesome farmers. It’s become obvious, if it wasn’t at the time of the budget, that they are not going to go away.

Their shouts of protest are getting louder and the petition against proposals to tax inherited farms is growing longer.

One of the world’s oldest retailers, WH Smith, has confirmed it is in talks to sell its city- and town-centre stores, which it has described as the “hub of the high street”.

First established in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street in London by Henry Walton Smith and his wife, Anna, …

Diamonds are woven through the tapestry of human history. The ancient Greeks were enthralled by their remarkable hardness. The

Koh-i-Noor

Almost three years ago, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine wiped out Europe’s largest source of gas and shocked global energy markets, setting the stage for quarter after quarter of better-than-expected earnings for the fossil fuel producers ready to profit from the volatility. Now those returns are beginning to cool.

But as …