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Metal-organic framework pioneers win chemistry Nobel
AFP, Published on 08/10/2025
» STOCKHOLM - Three scientists from Japan, the UK and the United States have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing metal-organic frameworks, the Nobel jury said on Wednesday.
Trio wins physics Nobel for quantum ‘tunnelling’
AFP, Published on 07/10/2025
» STOCKHOLM - Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said.
Unreachable Nobel winner hiking 'off the grid'
AFP, Published on 07/10/2025
» SAN FRANCISCO (UNITED STATES) - One of this year's Nobel winners is a leading medical researcher who also offers a shining example of work-life balance -- so much so that he might not know he won.
Fire-ravaged LA faces new peril as winds ramp up
AFP, Published on 14/01/2025
» LOS ANGELES - Hot, powerful winds threatened on Tuesday to strengthen and whip up major fires that have devastated the hills and suburbs of Los Angeles, killing at last 24 people and changing the face of America’s second biggest city forever.
Search for bodies as LA firefighters brace for more wind
AFP, Published on 14/01/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - Search teams looking for people killed in devastating Los Angeles blazes moved from house to house Monday, as firefighters girded for hurricane-force winds that could spark further flare-ups.
In a political year, some deaths spoke to the struggles for democracy
The New York TImes, Published on 01/01/2025
» In a year saturated with politics in an ever more polarised world, where the obituary many feared they’d be reading would be that of democracy itself, one death seemed to encapsulate the historical moment we’re in: that of Alexei Navalny.
On these apps, the dark promise of mothers sexually abusing children
The New York TImes, Published on 08/12/2024
» The promotional photo showed a mother affectionately hugging and kissing her daughter. The girl, around 8 years old, smiled into the camera.
Cancer claims OJ Simpson at 76
Reuters, Published on 11/04/2024
» OJ Simpson, the American football star who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife but was found responsible for her death in a civil lawsuit and was later imprisoned for armed robbery and kidnapping, has died at the age of 76.
Four charged with theft of gold toilet from English stately home
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» LONDON - Four men are facing charges in relation to the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet that was stolen from an English country house, prosecutors said on Monday.
England wise to South Africa's 'curveballs' before World Cup semi
AFP, Published on 18/10/2023
» PARIS - England defence coach Kevin Sinfield said on Tuesday they are aware of South Africa's potential tactical surprises before this weekend's Rugby World Cup semi-final in Paris.