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Nokia-Microsoft deal is 'important piece of puzzle'

Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia's mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; £4.6bn).
The purchase is due to be completed in early 2014, when about 32,000 Nokia employees will transfer to Microsoft.
While Nokia has struggled against competition from Samsung and Apple, Microsoft has been criticised for being slow into the mobile market.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones the deal was "a big, bold step forward"

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Urban dolphins: Challenges of city life revealed

 

Scientists from Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, are studying the resident pod of "urban dolphins" in the city's Swan Canning Riverpark.
The research team's ongoing survey aims to find out which areas of the river the dolphins are using the most, and therefore which areas might need greater protection.
As researcher Delphine Chabanne explains here to the BBC, the work has also shown that the population has now recovered from a sudden decline in 2009, when six dolphins died of a suspected virus.

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