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The third woman to ever to receive the physics prize was awarded yesterday.

In announcing the award, the Royal Swedish Academy said that this year’s prize “awards a revolution based on evolution”, and goes to scientists who “applied the principles of Darwin in the test tube”. The other half will go jointly to the American...

“I tell my wife that’s the only thing I’m really good at”. “But I’m trying to enjoy it”.

The Red Cross is providing shelter for evacuees with as many as 100,000 people possibly needing help.

This slow-motion, river-flooding disaster will continue well into next week. Officials say at least 40 people have been killed.

It’s a city where the storm blew so strong that boats became stranded on railroad tracks and even people’s front yards.

At least 41 deaths have now been attributed to Hurricane Florence.

“I’m just assuming, based on the depth of the water that we had in North Carolina and the amount of rainfall, that we probably will exceed what we had in [Hurricane] Matthew”, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler said in an interview, referring to hog losses.

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Officials have warned evacuated residents to stay away.

Rescue teams were trying to reach hundreds of people on Monday and racing against rising rivers and floods that could last for days after Florence dumped record rain on the Carolinas and killed at least 31 people. “It’s worrying to watch the water slowly rising”.

The Philippines’ deadliest storm on record is Super Typhoon Haiyan, which left more than 7,350 people dead or missing across the central part of the country in November 2013.

Astronauts last visited the moon during NASA’s Apollo program.

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Mangkhut was packing winds of up to 160 km/h (100 mph) as it battered Hong Kong on Sunday, causing high-rise buildings to sway and water to surge into the streets. Videos shared widely on Twitter and WhatsApp chat groups showed damage to some of the city’s towering and...