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Ghana's outgoing Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia says he is receiving the "greatest honour" of his life after the ruling NPP party elected him as their candidate for the 2024 presidential ballot. The West African country is undergoing its worst economic trouble in years, and the crisis is set to dominate the election campaign ahead of the December 2024 ballot to succeed President Nana Akufo-Addo. SOUNDBITE TO COMPLETE VIDI33ZV83L_EN + VID33ZV9EA_EN
Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad says being selected as the co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize came as a "surprise" and "great honour" and at the same time comes with "great responsibility." The 25 year old was speaking during a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington. SOUNDBITE
In front of the city's town hall, Olympique de Marseille football fans celebrate the 30-year-anniversary since the club won the European Cup, in the presence of some of the team's players. IMAGES
One of the Nobel Physics Prize's joint winners, Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger says "I am still, kind of shocked" after the prize is announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science during a press conference in Stockholm. Zeilinger won the prize alongside France's Alain Aspect and the US's John F. Clauser for groundbreaking work in the field of quantum physics. SOUNDBITE
"I'm still trying to find my feet underneath me," Princeton professor David MacMillan tells a press conference after winning the Nobel Chemistry Prize -- an "incredibly surreal" experience, he says -- for his work developing a new tool to scale up chemical reactions in an environmentally friendly way, known as "organocatalysis." SOUNDBITE
Montevideo, Sep 10 (EFE) .- (Camera: EFE) Without losing sight of the extra weight that the pandemic has placed on the world of science, Uruguayan neuroscientist Emiliano Trías is optimistic about achieving his great goal: a treatment that mitigates the damage of diseases such as Alzheimer's and ALS.FOOTAGE OF A LAB IN MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY