Shell is reporting fourth-quarter and full-year results on Thursday. The oil major has been aggressively buying back its shares in recent years but, with earnings likely to be hit by a weaker oil ...

He had some explosive indigestion. A hospital in France was evacuated after a male patient arrived with a WWI artillery shell lodged in his backside. According to the bum-shell report, the unnamed ...

The FTSE-100 oil giant Shell is close to unveiling a revamped boardroom pay policy which would see its boss handed a multimillion-pound annual pay incentive. Sky News has learnt that Shell has ...

Last month, IIT-Madras announced it had developed a ‘ramjet-assisted artillery shell’, which essentially involves fitting a ‘ramjet’ onto a 155 mm (diameter) shell. For many reasons, the new, smart ...

Shell reported weaker-than-expected profits in the fourth quarter amid steep falls in oil prices. The oil major reported net profit of $3.3billion, an 11 per cent drop from the previous year as the ...

Four EY UK partners have left the firm after breaches of independence rules in its audit of Shell that resulted in the oil major stripping the accounting firm of a $66 million (€55 million)-a-year ...

Health professionals have long had to deal with patients who inadvisably shoved a whole range of foreign objects up their behinds, often requiring medical intervention to retrieve them. It’s a ...

A French hospital was reportedly forced to evacuate in dramatic scenes after medical staff discovered an unexploded WW1 artillery shell stuck in a man’s rectum. On Saturday, bomb disposal experts were ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shell’s chief executive said he is pushing for further cost reductions as the oil major continues to reward ...

A German WWI-era shell recently became lodged in a Frenchman's rear. Here, an unexploded shell is found in a field near Auchonvilliers. (Tom Stoddart/Getty Images) The anonymous Englishman who managed ...

Results-day selling of Shell and Vodafone alongside weaker building and banking stocks today meant the FTSE 100 index retreated from last night’s record close. London’s top flight faded 40.29 points ...