BASINGSTOKE, England and PHILADELPHIA, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire Limited (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) the global specialty biopharmaceutical company announces results for the three months to June 30, 2008.

Q2 2008 Financial Highlights - Product sales up 40% to $706m - Product sales excluding ADDERALL XR(R) up 64% to $409m - New product sales(1) $243m, 34% of product sales (2007: 18%) - Total revenues up 35% to $776m - US GAAP earnings per ADS: loss $0.44 (2007: loss $9.93) - Non GAAP earnings per ADS up 70% to $0.95 (2007: $0.56) - Revenue guidance upgraded - 2008 revenue growth now expected to be at least 20% (previous guidance: mid to high teens) (1) New product sales comprise DAYTRANA, ELAPRASE, FOSRENOL, LIALDA / MEZAVANT and VYVANSE

LONDON, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- YouTube has been criticised by MPs, who say it must do more to vet its content - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7533543.stm.

Martin Warner (http://www.Martinwarner.com) is a new media expert and will be available today for analysis and comment relating to this story. In particular Martin can discuss:

- The consequences

- What it actually means for YouTube and similar websites

- What it means for uploaders

- What is likely to happen following this announcement

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BASEL, Switzerland, July 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Submission Based on Phase III Study Showing Superior Results for MabThera in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) When Added to Standard Chemotherapy

Today, Roche submitted a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for the use of its biotechnology drug MabThera (rituximab) as first-line treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, the most common form of adult leukaemia.

AUSTIN, Texas, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Ringdale, Inc., a technology leader in network enhancing connectivity solutions, today introduced the ModuLAN(R) FaxReceiver(TM) MFR-400, a 4-in-1 fax-to-e-mail appliance that connects directly to four analogue fax lines and a single Ethernet network and consolidates them into a data center rack space. FaxReceiver MFR-400 enables high volume incoming faxes to be sent automatically to an e-mail inbox or routed via Ringdale's FollowMe(R) Q-Server secure document output management solution.

PARIS, July 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Direct, High-Bandwidth Optical-Fiber Submarine Cable System From the United Kingdom to India

NEW YORK, July 31 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Britain's largest transport operator, FirstGroup plc, has signed an agreement with Opus Energy, a leading independent supplier of electricity to UK businesses. First's 600 UK sites will benefit from Opus Energy's dynamic approach to energy management, which includes access to wholesale energy prices, a cleaner energy supply, and the technology to help keep energy consumption to a minimum. 100% of First's electricity supply for its buildings will be sourced from cleaner low-carbon sources, generated from on-shore wind, small scale hydro and biomass.

Low levels of naturally occurring antibodies may represent an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, particularly stroke in men. This discovery, published in Atherosclerosis, has now led to attempts to develop an immunization against cardiovascular disease.

Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is an inflammatory disease in which the walls of the blood vessels are thickened and become less elastic. It can cause blood clots and other cardiovascular diseases. It is not known precisely what causes atherosclerosis, but the immune system probably plays an important role.

Judging by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, China is finding its place as one of the world’s scientific power houses, says Michael Banks, but he also quantifies this surge in scientific output China and measures whether quality matches quantity in August’s Physics World.

Nanoscience, quantum computing and high-temperature superconductivity are three of the cutting-edge areas of physics that have seen particularly large increases. Published journal articles in nanoscience, for example, with at least one co-author based in China, have seen a 10-fold increase since the beginning of the millennium, rising to more than 10,500 in 2007.

China has already overtaken the UK and Germany in the number of physics papers published and is beginning to nip at the heels of the United States. If China’s output continues to increase at its current pace, the country will be publishing more articles in physics - and indeed all of science - than the US by 2012.

Have you ever wondered what our world would look like stripped bare of all plants, soils, water and man-made structures?

So have earth and computer scientists from 79 nations who are working together on a global project called OneGeology to produce the first digital geological map of the world.

Images of the Earth as never seen before have been unveiled in what is the world’s biggest geological mapping project ever.

Begun just over a year ago, the project is doing for the rocks beneath our feet what Google does for maps of the Earth’s surface. Pretty fast for a science that usually counts time in millions of years.