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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Scientists find dolphins call out to each other 'by name'

23 July 2013 Last updated at 09:23 BST Scientists have found further evidence that dolphins call each other by "name". Researchers from the University of St Andrews discovered that they use a unique whistle to identify each other. It is thought to be the first time this kind of behaviour has been seen in an animal. Rebecca Morelle reports. Read...

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EU Minister’s Informal Justice & Home Affairs Ministers’ meeting, Vilnius 18-19/07 (ENISA - European Network and Information Security Agency) noodls

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Journalists attacked by police in Kashmir, Internet and 3G suspended (RSF - Reporters sans frontières) noodls

(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) Published on Tuesday 23 July 2013. Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the violence that members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) used against two employees of the English-language daily Rising Kashmir, Mohammad Jaffar and Abdul Qayoom, in...

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Virgin teams up with council for wifi scheme (Birmingham City Council) noodls

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IBM Boosts zEnterprise Mainframe Portfolio to Help Clients Build Better Customer Experiences (IBM - International Business Machines Corporation) noodls

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Scientists identify key to learning new words (University of London) noodls

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Tata Power’s 25 MW Mithapur Solar Plant excels in Operational Performance and generates over 43.386 MUs in FY13 (TATA Group - TATA Sons Ltd) noodls

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Fujitsu M10 Achieves World-Record Performance Running Java Application (Fujitsu Ltd) noodls

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