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Last updated at 12:58 BST, Wednesday, 24 September 2014

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- Environment shapes ants' 'personality'
  22 September 2014
- Scotland votes 'No'
  19 September 2014
- Message in a bottle
  17 September 2014

2014 Video stories

- Snail farming
  10 September 2014
- Kill your phone
  3 September 2014
- Dirt fighter
  27 August 2014
- Talking statues
  20 August 2014
- Rollercoaster rescue
  13 August 2014
- Corner shop or art gallery?
  6 August 2014
- Water ATMs
  30 July 2014
- Many kinds of intelligence
  23 July 2014
- Sushi art
  16 July 2014
- Airport security
  9 July 2014
- Robot security guard
  2 July 2014
- 3D prime minister
  25 June 2014
- Camera glasses
  18 June 2014
- Bridge of love
  11 June 2014
- Egypt's salt hotel
  4 June 2014
- Driving change
  28 May 2014
- Ghost cyclists
  21 May 2014
- Active office
  14 May 2014
- Indian village of wrestlers
  7 May 2014
- Colourful football fan
  30 April 2014
- Robot chef
  23 April 2014
- Unusual punishment
  16 April 2014
- Stone from the sky
  9 April 2014
- Sumo in decline
  2 April 2014
- Road of nails
  26 March 2014
- Hugging lions
  19 March 2014
- Teapot tower
  12 March 2014
- Battle of the Oranges
  5 March 2014
- Sanctuary in Indonesia
  26 February 2014
- Armchair tourism
  19 February 2014
- Every dog has its day
  12 February 2014
- Ship sandwich
  5 February 2014
- Glowing frogs
  29 January 2014
- New Zealand whales
  22 January 2014
- Paper helmet
  15 January 2014
- Bull power
  8 January 2014
- Death of a traditional craft
  1 January 2014

2014 News stories

- Walk or cycle for 'a happier commute'
  15 September 2014
- Language extinction
  5 September 2014
- US bank to pay record $16.7bn to government
  22 August 2014
- Ebola experimental treatment
  11 August 2014
- WW1 centenary
  4 August 2014
- Britain goes ahead with fracking
  28 July 2014
- Internet piracy warnings
  21 July 2014
- Assisted dying debate
  18 July 2014
- Egyptian statue sells for 拢16m
  11 July 2014
- Cheap solar energy
  27 June 2014
- British jihadists worry authorities
  23 June 2014
- Poaching threatens survival of African elephants
  16 June 2014
- Obama to announce new pollution targets for power plants
  2 June 2014
- Virus possibly spread by camels
  12 May 2014
- Long-lost twins
  2 May 2014
- Mystery of ocean 'duck' sound solved
  25 April 2014
- Colourful football fan
  30 April 2014
- Titanic letter sells for 拢119,000
  28 April 2014
- Beginning of the end for Japanese whaling?
  7 April 2014
- US created 'Cuban Twitter'
  4 April 2014
- Twitter 'blocked' in Turkey
  21 March 2014
- Another side to Mogadishu
  7 March 2014
- Pompeii under threat
  3 March 2014
- Obama's youth initiative
  28 February 2014
- Oldest Holocaust survivor dies
  24 February 2014
- Facebook allows gender choices
  14 February 2014
- Hollande visits US
  10 February 2014
- Man survives 16 months at sea
  3 February 2014
- Mafia plot claim: Tower of Pisa
  24 January 2014
- Obama tries to repair relations with Germany
  20 January 2014
- Philippines online child abuse arrests
  17 January 2014
- Kalashnikov inventor's regret
  13 January 2014
- Anti-whaling activists
  6 January 2014

2014 Business Stories

- Monkey business!
  8 August 2014
- Illegal trade threatens elephants
  7 July 2014
- Cocaine in shop bananas
  4 July 2014
- France to train Russian sailors
  30 June 2014
- Mud-pack for the Taj Mahal
  9 June 2014
- Vatican bank 'three trillion euro fraud' stopped
  31 March 2014
- Rubbish in Rio
  10 March 2014
- China is the biggest source of tourists
  10 January 2014

2014 Sports, Science, Arts & Entertainment stories

- Ozone layer 'recovering'
  12 September 2014
- Deadly discovery in US labs
  8 September 2014
- Eat less meat to save the planet, says study
  1 September 2014
- Artist buries gold on British beach
  29 August 2014
- Talking turtles
  18 August 2014
- Insect-inspired robots
  15 August 2014
- Researchers explain goalkeepers' mistake
  1 August 2014
- 'Fluffy' dinosaurs were widespread
  25 July 2014
- Germany wins the World Cup
  14 July 2014
- Mountaintop blasted to build telescope
  20 June 2014
- Crustaceans may feel anxiety
  13 June 2014
- Premier League clubs' income
  6 June 2014
- Hands-free on the road?
  30 May 2014
- Malaria vaccine hunt
  23 May 2014
- 'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered
  19 May 2014
- Galapagos emergency
  16 May 2014
- Electronics 'affect bird navigation'
  9 May 2014
- UN: World must end 'dirty' fuel use
  14 April 2014
- Flies move 'like fighter jets'
  11 April 2014
- Travel company tells Danes to have sex on holiday
  24 March 2014
- Protecting shipwrecks
  24 March 2014
- Paris smog
  17 March 2014
- Elephant exchange
  14 March 2014
- Drought and snow: Extreme US weather
  17 February 2014
- UN: No bullfighting for kids
  7 February 2014
- Vodka link to Russian early death
  31 January 2014
- Grand Canyon 'formed recently'
  27 January 2014
- Huge increase in obesity
  3 January 2014

2013 Video stories

- Ho ho ho!
  18 December 2013
- The icing on the cake
  11 December 2013
- Meet Bao Bao the panda
  4 December 2013
- Christmas lights
  27 November 2013
- Robot bike park in Japan
  20 November 2013
- Marathon swim
  13 November 2013
- Pink pipes of Berlin
  6 November 2013
- Pumpkin art
  30 October 2013
- UK nuclear station
  23 October 2013
- Protecting Venice
  16 October 2013
- Wedding saviours
  9 October 2013
- Pink power
  2 October 2013
- Lahore Walled City
  25 September 2013
- A lucky escape
  18 September 2013
- Art in your face
  11 September 2013
- Train of the future
  4 September 2013
- Knife massage
  29 August 2013
- Garden in the clouds
  21 August 2013
- Secret taxi driver
  14 August 2013
- Space robot
  7 August 2013
- Snail facial
  24 July 2013
- Shark-proof divers
  31 July 2013
- Bicycle-powered helicopter
  17 July 2013
- Thai police fight the fat
  10 July 2013
- Forest fires hit the US
  3 July 2013
- Tightrope walker
  26 June 2013
- Protests in Brazil
  19 June 2013
- Surgery app
  12 June 2013
- Floods in Europe
  5 June 2013
- Oldest Everest climber
  29 May 2013
- A delicate job for hard men
  22 May 2013
- Eating insects
  15 May 2013
- Print your own gun
  8 May 2013
- Jellyfish on show
  1 May 2013
- Subbuteo revival
  24 April 2013
- Lab-grown organ breakthrough
  17 April 2013
- Thatcher's legacy
  10 April 2013
- Musical miners
  3 April 2013
- From the ashes of Pompeii
  27 March 2013
- Culture shock for Amazon student
  20 March 2013
- Attack survivor saves sharks
  13 March 2013
- Walrus seen in Scotland
  6 March 2013
- Mexico's father of fun
  27 February 2013
- Afghan dust art
  20 February 2013
- Ugly masks
  13 February 2013
- Penguins and sea lion returned to Atlantic
  6 February 2013
- Greeks cut forests to stay warm
  30 January 2013
- Tourists take on shark
  23 January 2013
- Shark fin discovery
  9 January 2013
- The fruits of hard labour
  2 January 2013

2013 News stories

- Egypt jails three leading activists
  23 December 2013
- Putin closes Russian news agency
  9 December 2013
- Nelson Mandela dies
  6 December 2013
- Croatia voters back same-sex marriage ban
  2 December 2013
- Iran nuclear deal
  25 November 2013
- UN discusses 'killer robots'
  15 November 2013
- Typhoon Haiyan: Destruction in the Philippines
  11 November 2013
- Activists go on trial in China
  28 October 2013
- Face up to genetics
  25 October 2013
- Australian bush fires
  21 October 2013
- People arrested for attempted nuclear site sabotage
  7 October 2013
- FBI shuts down Silk Road website
  4 October 2013
- Sochi Olympic flame
  30 September 2013
- Dealing with Venezuela's food crisis
  27 September 2013
- Super typhoon hits Hong Kong
  23 September 2013
- Saudi women campaign for the right to drive
  20 September 2013
- Japan switches off nuclear power
  16 September 2013
- World War I wills
  30 August 2013
- Manning given 35 years for leaks
  23 August 2013
- Camels could be source of deadly virus
  9 August 2013
- Climate change violence
  2 August 2013
- Haiti cholera claims
  26 July 2013
- What next for the Royal baby boy?
  23 July 2013
- Congo deforestation in surprise fall
  22 July 2013
- Edward Snowden still in transit
  12 July 2013
- Twitter helps non-Arabic speakers
  5 July 2013
- Croatia enters the European Union
  1 July 2013
- Chile school protests
  28 June 2013
- North Korean town gets World Heritage status
  24 June 2013
- Smoke chokes Singapore
  21 June 2013
- Czech PM resigns
  17 June 2013
- Nelson Mandela remains in hospital
  10 June 2013
- Queen visits the 大象传媒
  7 June 2013
- Turkey protests
  3 June 2013
- Barbie house protest
  17 May 2013
- Pope creates new saints
  13 May 2013
- Haiti cholera victims threaten UN
  10 May 2013
- Switzerland limits immigration
  26 April 2013
- Chinese earthquake rescue
  22 April 2013
- Texas blast investigation
  19 April 2013
- Ex-Prime Minister Thatcher dies
  8 April 2013
- Obama's brain project
  5 April 2013
- Monitoring microblogs
  11 March 2013
- Chavez's body to be preserved and displayed
  8 March 2013
- Wikileaks soldier reveals why he shared secrets
  1 March 2013
- Hotel living
  25 February 2013
- UN rejects claims from cholera victims
  22 February 2013
- Sri Lankan religious tensions
  18 February 2013
- Meteor hits Russia
  15 February 2013
- Ceremony for new Archbishop of Canterbury
  4 February 2013
- What does Europe want from Obama?
  21 January 2013
- Half of all food wasted
  11 January 2013
- Australian cigarette packaging
  7 January 2013

2013 Business Stories

- Fed scales back stimulus effort
  20 December 2013
- Ireland exits bailout programme
  16 December 2013
- Germany to have minimum wage
  22 November 2013
- Twitter shares jump
  4 November 2013
- Easier UK visas for Chinese proposed
  14 October 2013
- China green industries
  12 August 2013
- Detroit goes bankrupt
  19 July 2013
- Cyprus tries to sort out its finances
  18 March 2013
- Horsemeat scandal widens
  11 February 2013
- Austerity for Chinese New Year
  8 February 2013
- Building a better future
  28 January 2013
- Italian car sales crash
  4 January 2013

2013 Sports, Science, Arts & Entertainment stories

- Cheques to be paid in via phone
  30 December 2013
- Weather 'behind ozone hole'
  13 December 2013
- 'Love test' predicts good marriage
  29 November 2013
- Biggest threat to modern medicine
  18 November 2013
- Nazi stolen art found in Germany
  4 November 2013
- Genetic discovery
  1 November 2013
- Monkeys 'talk in turns'
  18 October 2013
- Canadian wins Nobel Prize for Literature
  11 October 2013
- Voyager 1 leaves the Solar System
  13 September 2013
- Mexican soft drinks tax
  9 September 2013
- China's language problem
  6 September 2013
- Climate change 'spreads crop pests'
  2 September 2013
- World Athletics Championships
  19 August 2013
- China: Celebrities to promote virtue
  16 August 2013
- World's first lab-grown burger
  5 August 2013
- Sound of Music auction
  29 July 2013
- Book author mystery
  15 July 2013
- Andy Murray wins Wimbledon
  8 July 2013
- Life's essentials
  14 June 2013
- Chimpanzee tantrums
  31 May 2013
- Second jewel theft at Cannes
  24 May 2013
- Welcome home, gnomes
  20 May 2013
- Unlocking the secret to a longer life
  3 May 2013
- Drug-resistant malaria
  29 April 2013
- Goal-line technology
  15 April 2013
- Healthy chocolate
  12 April 2013
- The world's brightest city
  25 March 2013
- Chechen president's football outburst
  22 March 2013
- Battle of the bedbugs
  15 March 2013
- Beckham to help Chinese football
  4 March 2013
- Beyonce admits not singing live
  1 February 2013
- Listing all species on earth 'a possibility'
  25 January 2013
- Armstrong's confession
  18 January 2013

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