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China GPS rival Beidou starts offering navigation data

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China's satellite navigation system has become operational, according to an official.

Beidou now offered location, timing and navigation data to China and surrounding areas announced the project's spokesman Ran Cheng.

China has been working on the system since 2000 to provide an alternative to the US government-run Global Positioning System (GPS).

Deep-sea creatures at volcanic vent

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Remarkable images of life from one of the most inhospitable spots in the ocean have been captured by scientists.

Researchers have been surveying volcanic underwater vents - sometimes called black smokers - in the South West Indian Ridge in the Indian Ocean.

The UK team found an array of creatures living in the super-heated waters, including yeti crabs, scaly-foot snails and sea cucumbers.

Talks to bring Thierry Henry back to Arsenal "progressing"

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Arsenal's bid to sign Thierry Henry on a two-month loan deal is "progressing", a senior club source has told BBC Sport.

Negotiations have now begun with Major League Soccer in the US over the player's release.

Talks with Henry's club, the New York Red Bulls, are set to begin shortly.

Italy borrowing costs fall sharply at auction

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The cost of borrowing faced by the Italian government has fallen sharply at its latest debt auction.

The government raised 9bn euros ($11.8bn, £7.56bn) in short-term debt at half its previous interest rate.

The interest on the six-month bills was 3.251%, down from 6.504% at the last similar auction in November.

Thousands of Titanic artefacts to be sold at auction

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Thousands of artefacts recovered from the Titanic are to be sold at auction 100 years after the ocean liner sank.

Valued in 2007 at $189m (£121m), the items will be sold by Guernsey Auctioneers in New York on 15 April.

The collection of 5,500 items, to be sold as a single lot, were recovered over seven expeditions to the North Atlantic wreck between 1987 and 2004.