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Facebook celebrity doctor Parkphum Dejhutsadin said his phone suddenly started pinging on Saturday - scores of his two million followers in Thailand were desperate and they needed his help.

James Hardie Industries on Tuesday posted a 17% jump in its third-quarter profit and raised the lower end of its fiscal 2020 outlook, underpinned by an improvement in the U.S. housing market.

Most major Gulf stock markets lost ground on Tuesday, with a slew of weak corporate earnings dragging shares in Saudi and Dubai lower.

Government bond yields across the euro area rose on Tuesday in response to gains by world stock markets, but did not venture too far from recent lows in a sign of underlying caution among investors.

China's table tennis federation thanked its Qatari counterpart on Tuesday for providing training facilities and equipment, including 2,000 balls, to its national team, who are training in Doha to avoid the coronavirus outbreak at home.

The Russian rouble gained on Tuesday, following oil prices and other emerging-market currencies, as signs of a slowdown in the spread of coronavirus in China soothed markets.

Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening 40 points higher on Tuesday, according to financial bookmakers, with futures up 0.6% ahead of the cash market open.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri believes Lebanon needs technical help from the IMF to draw up an economic rescue plan and a decision on whether to pay a Eurobond maturing in March should be taken based on IMF advice, an-Nahar newspaper and a government source said on Tuesday.

A Russian team visiting Ankara to discuss the Syrian government offensive in the northwestern Idlib region has left, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Tuesday, with no apparent agreement on how to halt clashes that killed 13 Turkish soldiers in a week.

Peter Phillips, the grandson of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, has separated from his Canadian wife after 12 years of marriage, the Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday.

China shares closed higher for a sixth straight session on Tuesday as a fall in new cases of the coronavirus in China lifted investor sentiment.

British online supermarket and technology group Ocado reported ballooning annual pretax losses and a 27% fall in core earnings, mainly due to a fire which destroyed a hi-tech flagship warehouse in Andover, southern England.

(RTTNews) - JD Sports Fashion Plc. (JD.L) on Tuesday provided an update following the UK Competition and Markets Authority or CMA's announcement that it has competition concerns regarding the Group's acquisition of Footasylum Limited.

China's private chemical giant and refiner Hengli Petrochemical has cut to 90% from this week its crude oil processing rate at a northeastern plant, down from 109%, as a spreading coronavirus hits demand, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

(RTTNews) - CBS Sports and William Hill announced a strategic partnership, by which William Hill will be Official Sports Book and Wagering Data Provider across all CBS Sports platforms. Financial terms of the partnership were undisclosed.

(RTTNews) - Austrian sensor manufacturer ams AG on Tuesday reported that its adjusted net income for the fourth quarter of 2019 was $158.9 million, up sharply from $1.6 million in the year-ago period. Adjusted earnings per share for the fourth quarter were $1.78, compared to $0.

(RTTNews) - Marks & Spencer Group plc (MAKSY.PK, MAKSF.PK, MKS.L) said Eoin Tonge will be joining the Board in June as Chief Financial Officer. David Surdeau, interim CFO, will remain with the business to support the transition.

British online supermarket and technology group Ocado reported a 27% fall in annual core earnings, reflecting the impact of a fire which destroyed a hi-tech flagship warehouse in southern England, accounting changes and the costs of share schemes.

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European travel company TUI said strong demand for holidays would help offset the impact of the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on its annual profit, enabling it to lift the bottom end of annual earnings guidance.