Bumblebees know where to go
Honeybees have an elaborate language of dance to pass on news about the best places for nectar. Their more solitary cousins, the bumblebees, were always supposed to forag...
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Fees? Nein, danke
Last month students demonstrated yet again in Hamburg, telling all and sundry that "we are here, we are loud". It was one of several demonstrations in the city - and acro...
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Bankruptcies to rise, with retail and leisure hit hardest
Slower economic growth and higher interest rates have pushed up the number of business failures and will continue to do so throughout 2006, a leading business consultancy...
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Lloyds faces increasing customer debt
Lloyds TSB today reported an increase in the number of its high street customers having repayment difficulties.
However, the bank insisted it was on track for "satisfact...
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Monkeying around in Japan
The best way to travel around the Japanese alps is to hire a car in Tokyo itself or at the airport. Rates are reasonable, the roads are well signposted in English, and fu...
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Wealth tax hits poor pensioners of Paris
Bernadette thinks it is shameful. Never did the 76-year-old retired primary school teacher, who lives on a pension of €800 a month, think she would find herself clas...
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Avis Europe issues new shares in recovery bid
The struggling car rental firm Avis Europe today announced plans to raise ?110.5m by issuing new shares as part of its recovery strategy.
The owner of Budget and Avis s...
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North Sea oil output falls 10% in year
British oil production fell by 10% last year, one of the fastest rates of decline in the world, figures published by BP showed yesterday.
The slump was second only to A...
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The insecure are about to become a real political force
Last week it was announced that annuity rates have fallen again. Few people under 40, or even 50, will have noticed the story. The young expect to live for ever. For anyo...
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Why it's never easy to sell a pup
Since I last wrote about my brush with subsidence, my flat in North London has been underpinned and redecorated from top to toe. So you'd think I'd be sighing with relief...
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