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US stocks had best month in over three years

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US markets fell on Friday after GDP was revised to an annualised 2.2% for the last three months of 2014. However, despite the drop on...
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Uber security breach exposed personal data of 50,000 drivers

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Uber made a statement on Friday saying that a security breach last year may have disclosed the names and license plate numbers of about...
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Our water is becoming progressively poisoned with algae, raising risk of diseases

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Since the 1800s, there has been an explosion of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) populations in the lakes of Europe and North America, which threatens to...
A partial solar eclipse

Solar eclipse across whole of UK on March 20th, more pronounced in the north

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The Moon will cast its shadow over Northern Europe on March 20th, 2015, completely blacking out (total solar eclipse) the region between Iceland and...
Ancient Britain

Britain and Europe traded 8000 years ago, much earlier than thought

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Ancient Britain was not isolated and cut off from mainland Europe 8,000 years ago, as previously thought, researchers from the Universities of Warwick, Birmingham,...
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Lloyds to pay first dividend since it was bailed out

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Lloyds Banking Group is paying its first dividend in over six years since it was bailed out during the financial crisis - which cost...
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Blue-rayed limpet holds secret for windscreen transparent displays with no internal light source

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A tiny mollusk, the blue-rayed limpet, has natural optical structures which could be used for transparent displays on screens, including car windscreens (US English:...
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Ericsson is suing Apple for alleged patent infringement

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Ericsson is suing Apple for alleged patent infringement. The Swedish multinational provider of communications technology has filed two complaints with the US International Trade Commission...
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Cooler Pacific Ocean giving global warming a “false pause”, scientists warn

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The reason global warming has slowed down is the cooler Pacific Ocean, which for the last two decades has been Earth’s air conditioner –...
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RBS selling its U.S. loan assets to Mizuho for around $3 billion

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On Thursday Mizuho Financial Group Inc announced that it agreed to acquire Royal Bank of Scotland Group's U.S. loan assets for around $3 billion. Mizuho...