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Bojangles IPO raised $147.3 million, shares surge

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Shares in Bojangles surged by as much as 47% in their market debut Friday. The Charlotte-based chain of fast food restaurant had an initial public...
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US job growth recovers, unemployment at seven-year low of 5.4 percent

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Job growth in the US rebounded in April, with the country’s unemployment rate dropping to almost a seven-year low of 5.4 percent. The results quelled...
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Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips fined $11.5 million for violating hazardous-waste laws

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Oil giants Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips will have to pay $11.5 million in fines after a California state judge approved the settlement of a...
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Meet Dextrous Blue – the robot that sorts and folds clothes

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Dextrous Blue is an 8-foot tall robot designed to do one of the most mundane household chores – sorting and folding clothes. Its creators, from...

500 million-year-old brain provides clues on how heads first evolved in early animals

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How did heads first evolve in early animals? The discovery of a 500 million-year-old fossilised brain may provide insight into identifying a point of...
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Cosmic dinosaur egg – globular cluster – on verge of hatching

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A cosmic dinosaur is about to hatch, say scientists, who have discovered what may be the first known example of a globular cluster on...
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Beautiful Gentoo penguin chicks hatched in Edinburgh Zoo

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Edinburgh Zoo announced the arrival of the season’s first penguin chicks – two Gentoo penguins - that hatched this week, one in the early...
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Syngenta rejects $45 billion takeover offer from rival Monsanto

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Agrochemical giant Syngenta AG announced that it rejected a 41.7 billion Swiss-franc ($45 billion) takeover offer from rival Monsanto Co. Syngenta said that the deal undervalued...
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Defunct Russian spacecraft burns on re-entry over central Pacific Ocean

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Russia’s Progress M-27M spacecraft that was supposed to have brought over three tons of food, oxygen, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station,...
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Universe is full of planets with water delivered from asteroids and comets

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The Universe is probably full of planets with water which got to them from water-laden comets and asteroids crashing into them, as occurred on Earth,...