In their book Man and Shark, photographers Paul Hilton and Alex Hofford reveal the extent of the bloody trade in shark fins, says Clint Witchallsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d8e50c3/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=The+shark+soup+massacre+and+how+to+stop+itlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F09%2Fthe-shark-soup-massacre-and-how-to-stop-it.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+shark+soup+massacre+and+how+to+stop+itlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F09%2Fthe-shark-soup-massacre-and-how-to-stop-it.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78870033639/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/227430595/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78870033639/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/227430595/kg/63/a2.img" border="0"//a

Food prices are the highest they have been for more than a year according to a report from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

LONDON (Reuters) - For a bank that prides itself on smooth successions, HSBC is suddenly scrambling to pick its next chairman.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=2jNbCgX8vtY:6E8W3uEiaqI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=2jNbCgX8vtY:6E8W3uEiaqI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=2jNbCgX8vtY:6E8W3uEiaqI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=2jNbCgX8vtY:6E8W3uEiaqI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=2jNbCgX8vtY:6E8W3uEiaqI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/2jNbCgX8vtY" height="1" width="1"/

LONDON (Reuters) - British factory output maintained a healthy pace of growth in July, official data showed on Wednesday, but a slowdown in both manufacturing and the broader economy looks inevitable to economists.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=4TKpiIqdeqY:rUpw_HUIvUU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=4TKpiIqdeqY:rUpw_HUIvUU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=4TKpiIqdeqY:rUpw_HUIvUU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=4TKpiIqdeqY:rUpw_HUIvUU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=4TKpiIqdeqY:rUpw_HUIvUU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/4TKpiIqdeqY" height="1" width="1"/

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's government outlined a compromise solution for winding down troubled Anglo Irish Bank on Wednesday but failed to put either a price or a timeline on its plan.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=mdwiTMY8OMU:FWNia00erX0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=mdwiTMY8OMU:FWNia00erX0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=mdwiTMY8OMU:FWNia00erX0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=mdwiTMY8OMU:FWNia00erX0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=mdwiTMY8OMU:FWNia00erX0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/mdwiTMY8OMU" height="1" width="1"/

A long-awaited BP report lists eight reasons for the accident that caused its catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spillimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d8dd060/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=The+eight+failures+that+caused+the+Gulf+oil+spilllink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19425-the-eight-failures-that-caused-the-gulf-oil-spill.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+eight+failures+that+caused+the+Gulf+oil+spilllink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19425-the-eight-failures-that-caused-the-gulf-oil-spill.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78870026735/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/227397728/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78870026735/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/227397728/a2.img" border="0"//a

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Oracle unveils pay package after Hewlett-Packard launched legal action to stop Mark Hurd from joining rival.

BP facing accusations of a "self-serving" whitewash after it blames mistakes by contractors for Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

London shakes of losses as it join a rebound in global shares, helped by strong demand for Portuguese bonds, BP's oil spill report and Wall St.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's tax department has jurisdiction over tax bills in cross-border mergers, a court ruled, dismissing a petition by Vodafone and setting a precedent for foreign firms looking to buy into Indian companies.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=nk0JdgPsHpk:hL9XfODbEac:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=nk0JdgPsHpk:hL9XfODbEac:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=nk0JdgPsHpk:hL9XfODbEac:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=nk0JdgPsHpk:hL9XfODbEac:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=nk0JdgPsHpk:hL9XfODbEac:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/nk0JdgPsHpk" height="1" width="1"/

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Four animal rights activists admit waging a hate campaign against people linked to a Cambridgeshire animal testing laboratory.

The UK is among European nations bracing for anti-austerity protests, as unions plan a multi-national walkout on September 29.

A report by the Office for National Statistics shows that in almost one in five household there is not one person with a job.

The UK business Secretary Vince Cable has unveiled plans for a squeeze on public funding for scientific research.

The EU agrees on new rules to reduce the number of animals used in lab experiments and tighten controls over such procedures.

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