Nobel Prize for seeing how life works at molecular level
STOCKHOLM/LONDON - A German and two American scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for smashing the size barrier in optical microscopes, allowing researchers to see individual molecules inside living cells.
Reuters Q&A - Pietersen the misunderstood maverick
LONDON - Maverick, innovator, game-changer, big-hitter, showman - accolades that Kevin Pietersen has lapped up ever since he decided to up sticks from his native South Africa and try his luck in England.
Modi's welfare reforms may need to be bigger and bolder
NEW DELHI - Kamla Rani, a 50-year-old housewife living in a run-down area of New Delhi, baulks at the idea of having heavily subsidised food benefits replaced by money deposited in a bank account.
Bangladesh, Zimbabwe spinners banned for illegal actions
REUTERS - The International Cricket Council has slapped bans on Bangladesh's Sohag Gazi and Zimbabwe's Prosper Utseya for illegal bowling actions.
Cyclone Hudhud heads for India, after battering Andaman and Nicobar islands
PORT BLAIR/BHUBANESWAR India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cyclone heading for India's southeast coast gathered strength on Wednesday, uprooting trees, triggering landslides and snapping power and phone links as it crossed the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, government officials said.
Russia offers India stakes in Siberian oilfields - sources
NEW DELHI - Rosneft has offered stakes in its two east Siberian oilfields to Oil and Natural Gas Corp , two Indian sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the sanctions-hit Russian company looks beyond Western firms to develop its vast resources.
Renewed assault on Kobani; 21 dead in Turkey as Kurds rise
MURSITPINAR Turkey/ANKARA - Islamic State fighters launched a renewed assault on the Syrian city of Kobani on Wednesday night, and at least 21 people were killed in riots in neighbouring Turkey where Kurds rose up against the government for doing nothing to protect their kin.
Factbox - India's complex welfare system
NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised a bank account for every Indian household under a push to end "financial untouchability" that could revolutionise how the state aids poor people.
Europe to see more Ebola cases after first transmission outside Africa
MADRID/LONDON - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that Europe would almost certainly see more cases of Ebola after a nurse in Spain became the first person known to have caught the virus outside Africa.
No comments:
Post a Comment