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Underlying turnover at the UK's biggest contractor exceeded £10bn for the first time last year, alongside a double-digit percentage increase in pre-tax profit. Balfour Beatty’s departing chief executive, Leo Quinn, hailed the latest full-year results as evidence of “further strong progress”. However, the group noted an £83m building safety charge in its announcement this morning

Kier chief executive Andrew Davies Kier chief executive Andrew Davies hailed “significant operational and financial progress” after the tier one contractor posted increased revenue and profit in its interim results. The Salford-headquartered contractor revealed turnover of £1.97bn for the six months to 31 December 2024. This was up 6 per cent from the same period

Science & Nature Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 Over the weekend...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed satisfaction over the work being done in the textile sector and said he is optimistic that India will achieve the ₹9 lakh crore annual exports goal ahead of the 2030 target. This assumes significance in view of the General Budget 2025 announcement of a five-year Cotton Mission to

Every time a new AI model is released, it’s typically touted as acing its performance against a series of benchmarks. OpenAI’s GPT-4o, for example, was launched in May with a compilation of results that showed its performance topping every other AI company’s latest model in several tests. The problem is that these benchmarks are poorly

Science & Nature Healthy pregnancies are fundamental to healthy populations, but very few therapies to improve pregnancy outcomes are available. Fundamental concepts—for example, placentation...

For decades, U.S. hospitals have generally stonewalled patients who wanted to know ahead of time how much their care would cost. Now that’s changing — but there’s a vigorous debate over what hospitals are disclosing. Under a federal rule in effect since 2021, hospitals nationwide have been laboring to post a mountain of data online

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