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Governments fail to reach agreement on how to protect Antarctica

An Asian elephant uses his trunk to imitate human speech, scientists report.

Pension and severance payments of £412,000 made to the former chief executive of the Serious Fraud Office were made without proper authorisation, the National Audit Office rules.

Thousands of lab rodents have drowned after Hurricane Sandy caused a university centre in New York to flood.

The government says it will keep the controversial beer tax "escalator" under review after a debate in the House of Commons.

US consumer confidence jumps to an almost five-year high, according to a closely-watched survey, largely due to improvements in the US jobs market.

Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it's for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone's initiative to raise awareness for men's health -- by having men grow out their moustaches every November -- began as a dare in a bar in 2003. Now, it's a worldwide movement that raised $126 million for prostate cancer research last year. 

Around 6,500 retail jobs are at risk after electrical chain Comet confirmed that it will be put into administration next week.

RBS and NatWest current account customers will no longer receive monthly paper bank account statements, unless they opt back into the system.

The petrol-from-air story lifts the lid on a wider energy storage issue

UK judges give Apple 48 hours to re-write a message on its website to make it clearer that Samsung did not infringe its iPad design rights.

Lloyds Banking Group has set aside a further £1bn to cover compensation for customers who were mis-sold payment protection insurance.

Phone companies are warned stricter rules could be introduced after Vodafone becomes the latest firm to raise the cost of its fixed contracts.

The Bank of England now owns one third of all UK government bonds in existence.

Pay TV group BSkyB says that more customers took on additional services such as broadband and telephone in the last quarter, boosting its revenue.

There is a "total lack of trust" in estate agents, according to a survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

The UK's manufacturing sector shrank in October for the sixth month in a row as new orders fell and costs rose, a survey suggests.

A £500,000 restoration project will aim to bring back wildlife to the River Welland in Leicestershire.

Cost cutting has helped BT deliver a 7% rise in pre-tax profits to £608m, which beat analyst expectations.

Freedom of information request sheds light on Climategate probe

As MPs debate the government's beer tax escalator, several campaign groups say that high prices are putting people off drinking.

The Rugby Football Union promises to invest £26m at grassroots level to help capitalise on the 2015 World Cup in England.

South Africa has the largest and most developed economy on the African continent, but the unemployment rate for younger people has been running as high as 50%, prompting a nationwide debate.

Telecoms giant BT cuts its revenue outlook for the year after European corporate customers slash spending.

The Comet retail chain is close to going into administration after private equity firm OpCapita failed to revive the business, according to reports.