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Nasa is optimistic the shuttle Endeavour will not need repairs before it returns to Earth.

The focus on reducing carbon emissions has blinded us to the real problem - unsustainable lifestyles.

The number of merger deals worldwide has levels last seen at the tail-end of the 1990s tech boom.

Russian aluminium firm Rusal is buying rival Sual, creating the world's biggest aluminum firm.

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An unmanned Japanese space probe sent to collect the first samples from an asteroid fails to reach its target.

The world's biggest aluminium maker, the US firm Alcoa, believes demand from the likes of Airbus and Boeing will boost its fortunes.

A student ties a festive red ribbon round an old school which is being turned into a new arts faculty.

Trees across Wales are being turned into works of art as part of a national project by a Cardiff-based artist.

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American aluminium firm Alcoa has seen profits more than double due to higher demand and prices for the metal.

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The US space agency Nasa shows how it hopes to fix damage to the heat resistant tiles of the space shuttle.

Computer maker Apple beats Wall Street expectations despite a 65% drop in quarterly profits.

Workers at an aluminium plant near Swansea are told their jobs are to go with the closure of the Alcoa Extrusion site.

Troubled US aluminium giant Alcoa gets a grant from assembly ministers to safeguard 287 jobs and the future of its Swansea plant.

Unions welcome news that an aluminum plant due to close in north Wales has been bought and most of the workers will keep their jobs.

The New England Patriots could be about to play their last at the 30-year-old Foxboro Stadium.

The privatisation of the Indian aluminium firm Balco was legal, a judge rules as he throws out a challenge by a regional government

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