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Talk about bouncing back. MIT professor Moungi Bawendi is a co-winner of this year’s Nobel chemistry prize for helping develop “quantum dots” — nanoparticles...
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Life
From the Lazy Olympics to the toilet that knows all about you... Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world.
World
Former Austrian minister Karin Kneissl, known for dancing with Russian President Vladimir Putin, has moved to Russia – along with her ponies flown in...
World
A Norwegian out walking on doctors' advice unearthed rare 6th-century gold jewellery using a newly bought metal detector.
Business
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary got a rude welcome in Brussels on Thursday when he received two cream pies to the face while standing next...
World
A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes has been pulled “alive and wriggling” from a woman’s brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors...
World
Iranian police have arrested the head of a real estate agency after a viral video showed his firm selling an apartment to a dog,...
Sports
Traditional Swiss wrestling, known as "schwingen" in German, has been a male preserve for centuries.
World
A Danish man who claimed to be the first to visit every country in the world in a single trip without flying landed home...
World
Officials were left red-faced at a beer factory in Japan’s Okinawa region on Tuesday, after a mishap turned a large body of water a...