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A team planning to build a Victorian computer for the first time have decided not to use Kickstarter to finance the project.
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BP confirms it is in "advanced" talks with Rosneft over selling its stake in TNK-BP, but says no agreement has yet been reached.
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Bottlenose dolphins that use sponges to protect their noses while foraging are using a technique that began in the 19th century, a study finds.
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Shares in India's cash-strapped airline Kingfisher fall almost 5%, after its license was suspended over the weekend.
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New evidence emerges about alleged role UN troops in epidemic
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It has been missing for 80 years but Sillem’s Mountain Finch Leucosticte sillemi has now been rediscovered on the Tibetan plateau by a trekker who was too ill to leave camp.
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Fears are growing that Japan could be sliding back into recession after the latest trade figures show the country posted a deficit in September, as exports to China and Europe fell.
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Japanese exports to China tumbled in September, compared to the previous year, as a territorial dispute between the two countries weighed on the economy.
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The Malaysian oil company Petronas is considering if it should try to pursuade the Canadian government to reverse its decision to block a planned takeover of Progress Energy, a deal worth more than $5 billion.
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The brains of teenage girls with behavioural disorders are structurally different to those of their peers, researchers have found.
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Employers are being asked to help workers boost their numeracy skills amid fears that poor maths is blighting Britain's economic performance.
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Workers are increasingly depending on benefits to pay their rent, the body which represents English housing associations warns.
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Canada blocks a bid by Malaysia's Petronas to acquire Progress Energy Resources, raising questions about the country's openness to foreign investment.
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India's plan to give citizens the legal right to food is welcome news to the millions of poor people in the country, but it could prove a financial burden to the economy.
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Huge discovery transforms sleepy Mozambique town
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The value of CSR programmes
21 Oct 2012 3:32:31
Measuring corporate claims of social commitments
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World’s oldest undeciphered writing breakthrough
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Is US ready to finish clean-up of Spanish nuclear bomb village?
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Exit polls suggest nationalist parties in Spain's Basque Country have won regional elections, a poll seen as a key test of the government's austerity policy.
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British rider David Millar is hoping to persuade Rabobank not to abandon its long association with cycling.
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A zoo sheds light on animal behaviour in the office
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Agency temp workers risk being chased for unpaid tax
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US auction site eBay paid only £1.2m in tax back in 2010 in the UK, where it generated sales of about £800m, according to an investigation by the Sunday Times.
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Hong Kong moves to weaken its currency for the first time in three years as demand from investors fleeing Western markets has caused a sharp increase in its value.
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Sampling Glenelg in the Highlands as it twins with Glenelg on Mars
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