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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Pierre Agostini (France), Ferenc Kraus (Austria, Hungary) and Anne L'Huillier (France, Sweden) for their work on electron dynamics. IMAGES
The 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to Swedish paleogenomics pioneer Svante Pääbo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova. Paabo -- the founder and director of the department of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig -- found that gene transfer had occurred from these now extinct hominins to Homo sapiens following the migration out of Africa around 70,000 years ago. IMAGES
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paaabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, wins the Nobel Medicine Prize, announces the Nobel committee. SOUNDBITE
Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, the Nobel jury says. IMAGES
The Nobel prize in economics is awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for helping understand the role of women in the labour market. The Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," says Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.
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