• Shares in King Pharmaceuticals were up 39% in pre-marking trading today, and maintained that surge after the bell.

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  • This summer's exam results have seen a 36% increase in re-marking requests.

    BBC: Exam grades changed for 45,000 in re-marking

  • Mr Lightman, leader of the Association of School and College Leaders, told MPs that he believed that the exam grades for pupils taking the English GCSE in the summer had been been forced downwards in an attempt to balance an "over-generous" marking in January - in a way that was unfair for individual students.

    BBC: Heads tell MPs exam watchdog 'failed' in GCSE grades

  • More than 200, 000 papers were submitted for re-marking in total.

    BBC: Exams: Ofqual reports GCSE and A-level regrades rise

  • McCarthy played in the 1-1 draw at the Estadio da Luz on Sunday but was taken off in the second-half, marking the third successive match without a goal after a run of free scoring form.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | African | McCarthy dropped to reserves

  • In exam regulator Ofqual's final report on the issue, it was suggested that teachers in England were "significantly" over-marking pupils' GCSE English work this summer in order to boost results.

    BBC: GCSE English: How is it marked?

  • But just 15 minutes later, when the fox was satisfied the group was not a threat, it returned to investigate the strange herd of two legged creatures, running in circles around the group and scent-marking the small parcels of food it had previously stockpiled in the ground nearby.

    BBC: Life in the fragile, frozen Arctic

  • Additionally, some issues are rarely treatable except with drugs -- for example, "urine-marking" in cats or thunderstorm phobia in dogs.

    CNN: Why I feed my cat antidepressants

  • In the past month there have also been a number of suicide-bombings and other attacks in Cairo, marking a possible rebirth of the militant Islamist groups that the authorities crushed in the 1990s.

    ECONOMIST: Something stirs in Cairo | The

  • Burns formally opened a U.S. liaison office in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, marking the highest-level U.S. diplomatic presence in the country since 1980.

    CNN: U.S. renews diplomatic ties with Libya

  • He warned that the country could not escape the global slowdown, saying that the economy was likely to shrink for a few more quarters this year--marking the country's first economic contraction in nearly two decades--but a rebound may occur by year's end.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Its report says teachers in some of England's secondary schools were guilty of "significantly" over-marking pupils' GCSE English work this summer in order to boost results.

    BBC: GCSE English: Teachers' anger over generous marking claim

  • Cosla, the umbrella body for local authorities, said teachers in Scotland have one third of their week - three times as long as their counterparts in England and Wales - for preparing lessons, correction and marking.

    BBC: Call for Scottish teachers to have more holidays

  • On Monday, King won his 20th England cap when he played for the national team for the first time in nearly three years in the 3-1 win against Mexico at Wembley, marking his return by putting Capello's side in front.

    BBC: Ledley King gives England fitness pledge for World Cup

  • Lee took 2-30 from his four overs, marking his debut in satisfactory style by getting rid of openers Rory Hamilton-Brown and Ed Joyce.

    BBC: Smith blitz as Sussex sail clear

  • In addition, the event led PGA.com to its highest four-days in-site history for its traffic, page views and video streams, marking the most successful four days in PGA.com's four-year history of providing live video streaming for the PGA Championship.

    ENGADGET: 92nd PGA Championship loads up with HD, online, mobile and 3D video this weekend

  • After he entered it, they served him with notice to turn himself in -- an order he ignored, marking a further violation.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The boycott of exam and coursework-marking, which began in March, had threatened to disrupt thousands of graduations this summer and delay job applications.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Lecturers vote to take pay offer

  • The likelihood must be that, far from marking a milestone in co-operation, the understanding reached over Mr Chen becomes another source of tension in Chinese-American relations.

    ECONOMIST: The difficulty in making progress in relations with China

  • In a wide-ranging speech on Thursday marking "Freedom Day" -- a celebration of the release of Hezbollah prisoners from Israeli custody -- Nasrallah said the Bush administration worked with its Arab allies "in order to take advantage of the short time of Bush's term and before (Barack) Obama takes office in order to change the realities" in Gaza.

    CNN: Hezbollah: Bush tried to change Gaza 'realities'

  • It was a feat Morgan and his crew would repeat across the industrial landscape, arranging new equilibrium conditions and regulatory mechanisms in one sector after the other, filling in for a non-existent central banking function (the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, marking the start of a whole new story).

    FORBES: Entrepreneurs are the New Labor: Part I

  • The upsurge in fighting, hard on the heels of President Barack Obama's re-election, was seen as marking something of a rapprochement in ties between Israel and Washington after a very tense period.

    BBC: Israeli settlement move risks diplomatic fallout

  • Citigroup Chief Executive Michael Corbat announced 11, 000 job cuts in December, marking his first big move since taking over for Vikram Pandit in mid-October, which was right around the time UBS said it would ax 10, 000 workers.

    FORBES: Wall Street Still Shrinking: Morgan Stanley Said To Prep Layoffs

  • Whatever her motivation, she finally caved and penned a jagged line down PR-184, marking an X in the middle of nowhere.

    BBC: Puerto Rico��s Pork Highway

  • It was the house that was her work now: leafing through the piles of catalogues that came in the mail, marking them with Post-its, ordering sheets covered with dragons for Akash's room.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Unaccustomed Earth'

  • In 2010, Chavez declared then-Ambassador Patrick Duddy persona non grata, marking the last time that the US had an ambassadorial presence in Venezuela (but not the last time the two countries have expelled diplomatic personnel).

    BBC: Viewpoint: New era for US-Venezuela relations?

  • Basle were furious that referee Stefan Johannesson waved away appeals for a free-kick in the build-up to the goal but there was no excuse for their woeful marking.

    BBC: FC Basle 2-3 Fulham

  • This time it was made in South Carolina, marking the first time a commercial airplane from the Chicago-based multinational airplane manufacturer was made in a southern U.S. state.

    FORBES: Air India Awaits South Carolina's First Ever Boeing Dreamliner

  • So it was against the run of play when Southend took a shock lead - with Scolari's new zonal marking system exposed at the first opporunity - as Barrett headed in Stanislas's corner unmarked from eight yards.

    BBC: Southend 1-4 Chelsea

  • In Iran two state-television channels were criticised for marking the new year against backdrops of religious shrines and heroic pictures of Mr Khamenei.

    ECONOMIST: Iran's new year: The fun and the hangover | The

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