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Russia bestows medal on US Nobel Physics honours dark matter, exoplanets Stolen truck slams into cars in Germany astronaut in parked cars a few hundred me- failed launch Police said it was tres (yards) further on and came • to a stop on the central reserva- Moscow too soon to speculate tion of a six-lane road. about a motive When the man behind the ussia has decorated wheel of the truck emerged from RNASA astronaut Nick A white articulated the crash, several passers-by Hague, who survived an lorry• slammed into provided first aid, FNP said. aborted space launch last “The passers-by said the driv- year, with one of its highest around nine cars er said ‘Allah’ several times” and honours, the Order of Cour- spoke Arabic, FNP reported. age, a Kremlin decree said AFP | Limburg, Germany Police did not confirm this on Tuesday. account. Hague along with Russian stolen truck ploughed Bettina Yeisley from Limburg, cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchin- into several cars in the whose office is next to the scene in had a close brush with Acentre of the German city of the crash, told FNP that she death when their Soyuz of Limburg leaving a number heard a loud bang and ran out rocket failed minutes after of people injured, police said onto the street with colleagues. blast-off from Baikonur yesterday, adding that the driver They found the man sitting cosmodrome in Kazakhstan had been detained. beneath a tree, without knowing in October last year. They Police said it was too soon to the circumstances. were forced to eject and speculate about a motive for the The articulated lorry slammed into around nine cars waiting at a traffic light “He was bleeding from the make a harrowing emergen- This year’s Physics Laureates Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz have explored our incident, which began when a nose, his hands were bloody, cy landing. home galaxy, the Milky Way, looking for unknown worlds. In 1995, they made man seized the truck at 5:20 pm vehicle. truck, who was not named, was his trousers torn. He said that It was the first such acci- the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system, an exoplanet, orbiting a solar-type star, 51 Pegasi. (1520 GMT) on Monday. Police staged a major deploy- quoted by daily Frankfurter Neue everything hurt. I asked him his dent in Russia’s post-Soviet “We currently do not have suf- ment of officers and vehicles, Presse (FNP) as saying a man had name and he said, ‘My name is history. ficient information about what with a helicopter circling over- “dragged” him out of his lorry. Mohammed’.” In a decree released on was behind it,” the police said. We currently do head the city of 35,000, about He said the man, in his 30s Authorities urged users of so- Tuesday, the Kremlin com- The white articulated lorry not have sufficient an hour’s drive from Germany’s with short dark hair and a full cial media not to jump to con- mended 44-year-old Hague slammed into around nine cars information about financial capital of Frankfurt. beard, had yanked open the driv- clusions on the motive. for his “courage and high waiting at a traffic light opposite what was behind it The site was cordoned off by er-side door and stared at him “We are not ruling anything professionalism” shown the courthouse in Limburg in police and brightly lit up as tow wide-eyed before forcing him out,” a spokesman for the state during life-threatening con- western Hesse state, crushing trucks removed the damaged out of the vehicle. police force said, quoted by DPA ditions. After the accident them together. POLICE cars one by one. “I asked him ‘What do you said. “But we call on you: don’t Hague and Ovchinin suc- Police said “around nine peo- want from me?’,” he told FNP. take part in speculation!” the cessfully launched to the ple were slightly injured,” in- ‘Didn’t say a word’ “He didn’t say a word.” regional police wrote in several International Space Station cluding the driver of the stolen The original driver of the The truck sped into the tweets. aboard another Soyuz.

• The 2019 #NobelPrize The discovery by 2019 #NobelPrize in Physics has been laureates Michel Mayor and Didier awarded with one half Queloz started a revolution in as- Venezuelans turn to alternative medicine amid shortages to James Peebles “for tronomy and over 4,000 exoplanets AFP | Caracas she sells. theoretical discoveries KNOW WHAT have since been found in the Milky in physical cosmology” Way. Strange new worlds are still Goran K Hansson (c), Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of he small waiting room at the home Careless consumption of some herbs Sciences, and academy members Mats Larrson (L) and Ulf Danielsson, announce Tof self-styled healer “Brother Guay- can be deadly, warns Grismery Morillo. being discovered, with an incredible winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics during a news conference at the Royal anes” in Caracas’ rundown Petare dis- A doctor at a Caracas public hospital, The other half wealth of sizes, forms and orbits. Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden trict fills up quickly with patients -- she says she has seen many cases of jointly• to Michel Mayor business has never been better. acute liver failure in people who have and Didier Queloz “simply extraordinary”, saying With Venezuela’s chronic medicine eaten certain roots. ‘Revolution in astronomy’ the discovery was “the most ex- shortages and hyperinflation, more and According to Venezuela’s opposition “for the discovery of citing of our careers”. more people are turning to alternative parties, some 300,000 chronically ill an exoplanet orbiting His work showed that the The prize consists of a gold medicine to treat common ailments people are in danger of dying from the a solar-type star” matter known to us -- such as medal, a diploma and the sum in the crisis-wracked South American shortages of medicines. stars, planets, and ourselves of nine million Swedish kronor country. But despite the risks, people like AFP | Stockholm -- only make up five percent, (about $914,000 or 833,000 eu- “We go to the hospital and there’s Carmen Teresa say they have no al - while the other 95 are made up ros). nothing there. They don’t have medi- ternative. of “unknown dark matter and The trio will receive the prize cines, or they’re too expensive, what are In the kitchen of her restaurant anadian-American cos- dark energy.” from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a we to do?” said Rosa Saez, 77, who has which closed down three years ago mologist James Peebles “This is a mystery and a chal- formal ceremony in Stockholm come to get treatment for a painful arm. Patients wait at the spiritual healer’s clinic in Petare Venezuelan spiritual healer “Brother as the economic crisis took hold, the and Swiss astronomers lenge to modern physics,” the on December 10, the anniversary Carlos Rosales -- he uses the more Guayanese” poses at his clinic in the Caracas 58-year-old Colombian prepares an C neighborhood of Petare Michel Mayor and Didier Que- academy said. of the 1896 death of scientist Al- ceremonious “Brother Guayanes” mind clients to arrive with a candle and infusion of fig leaves to treat “diabetic loz yesterday won the Nobel Peebles is Albert Einstein Pro- fred Nobel who created the priz- for his business -- is finishing up a Natural healing tobacco and “Don’t forget that payment neuropathy”. Physics Prize for research that fessor of Science at Princeton es in his last will and testament. “spiritual intervention” on a patient in All across Venezuela, but particu- is in cash”. The painkillers needed for the con- increases the understanding of University in the United States, In 2018, the honour went to what passes for his surgery. larly in poor areas like Petare, patients Much like a general practitioner, Ro- dition are “too expensive” and prices our place in the universe. while Mayor and Queloz are Arthur Ashkin of the US, Gerard The patient lies, eyes closed, on a cot cannot hope to afford the price of med- sales spends time consulting with his are going up due to hyperinflation, so Peebles won one-half of the both professors at the Universi- Mourou of France and Donna as, in a series of swishes and clicks, the icines that due to the economic crisis, patients, examining them with a stetho- she is cutting back on the pills and sup- prize “for theoretical discoveries ty of Geneva. Queloz also works Strickland of the US for laser healer waves five pairs of scissors one have become exceedingly rare. scope, before offering a diagnosis. Often plementing her treatment with herbal that have contributed to our un- at the University of Cambridge inventions used for advanced after another over his prone body. Venezuela’s pharmacists’ federation he prescribes potions based on plants infusions. derstanding of how the universe in Britain. precision instruments in correc- The healer says he performs 200 say pharmacies and hospitals have on and fruit, such as pineapple and a type She needs at least four tablets a day evolved after the Big Bang,” pro- Using custom-made instru- tive eye surgery and in industry. such interventions a week in a dim, average only about 20 percent of the of local squash known as chayote. to keep her diabetes at bay. Her mother, fessor Goran Hansson, secretary SECRETS IN THE ments at their observatory in This year’s Nobel prize sea- candle-lit room that features two camp medicine stock needed. “We know medicines are necessary,” bedridden since breaking a leg a year general of the Royal Swedish BACKGROUND RADIATION southern France in October son kicked off on Monday with beds and an array of plaster statues Rosales’ clinic is muggy with the he says. “I’m not against medicine, but Esperanza Castillo, 74, waits for treatment at ago, suffers from Alzheimer’s disease Academy of Sciences, told a 1995, Mayor and Queloz were the Medicine Prize awarded to that Rosales says represent “spiritual smell of tobacco. A crucifix suspended my medicine is botany.” the clinic with her daughter and needs five pills a day for hyper- press conference. The universe was extremely hot and dense in its earliest able to detect a gaseous ball sim- Americans William Kaelin and entities”. from a chain around his neck, he prac- tension. moments, the Big Bang. Since then, the universe has Mayor and Queloz shared the ilar in size to Jupiter, orbiting a Gregg Semenza, and Britain’s A regular visitor to the spiritual tices a seeming mixture of smoke-blow- Plants replace drugs flourish. “I’m still taking my pills, but I re - been expanding, getting larger and colder. Almost other half for the first discov- star around 50 light years from Peter Ratcliffe. duced the dose,” says Teresa, who is 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the initial radiation center, Saez says she has faith in Ro- ing shamanism, plant-based medicine At her stall in a downtown Caracas “I can’t keep up with the demand,” ery, in October 1995, of a planet our own Sun. They were honoured for re- began to travel through space. This radiation still fills sales’ methods: “He healed my kid - and mainstream religion. market, 72-year-old Lilia Reyes says she she said at her stall, bathed in the aro- also replacing cholesterol pills with outside our solar system -- an the cosmos and, coded into it, many of the universe’s Harnessing a phenomenon search into how human cells neys.” Posters hung near the entrance re- has seen her trade in medicinal plants ma of camomile, one of the 150 plants lemon juice. exoplanet -- orbiting a solar-type secrets are hiding. Using his theoretical models, known as the Doppler effect, sense and adapt to changing ox- star in the Milky Way. James Peebles was able to predict the shape of the which changes the colour of ygen levels, which opens up new “Their discoveries have forev- universe and the matter and energy it contains. (Below light depending on whether an strategies to fight such diseases er changed our conceptions of curve). His calculations were a good match with later object is approaching or retreat- as cancer and anaemia. the world,” the jury said. measurements of background radiation. ing from Earth, the pair proved The winners of this year’s Developed over two decades The first peak shows that the universe is the planet, known as 51 Pegasus Chemistry Prize will be an - ‘I’ve never raped a woman,’ says French director Besson since the mid-1960s, Peebles’ geometrically flat. i.e. two parallel lines will b, was orbiting its star. nounced on Wednesday. Paris theoretical framework is “the never meet. The Nobel jury noted that the The Literature Prize will period. She is one of nine women a woman... I never drugged this takes”. She said she had feared basis of our contemporary ideas The second peak shows that ordinary matter discovery “started a revolution follow on Thursday, with two rench film director Luc Bes- who have said they were assault- woman as has been said. That is “I betrayed my wife and my for her career if she about the Universe.” is just 5% of the matter and energy in the in astronomy” and since then laureates to be crowned after Fson on Monday denied rap- ed or harassed by the powerful a lie,” he said in extracts from the children. It did not only happen complained. Peebles built upon Albert Ein- universe. over 4,000 exoplanets have been a sexual harassment scandal ing or drugging a young actress director and producer. interview, which will be broad- once, it happened several times Police questioned Besson stein’s work on the origins of found in our home galaxy. forced the Swedish Academy to -- the first time the maker of Van Roy, 28, had minor roles cast in full on Tuesday. during our 20 years of marriage,” about the accusations in Octo- the Universe by looking back to The third peak shows that 26% of the postpone the 2018 award, for the “The Fifth Element” has spoken in his “Taxi 5” and “Valerian and he added. ber 2018. the millenia immediately after universe consists of dark matter. ‘Simply extraordinary’ first time in 70 years. publicity about the sex allega- the City of a Thousand Planets”. ‘I made some mistakes’ Van Roy first went to the po- One actress later told prose- the Big Bang, when light rays “Strange new worlds are still On Friday the action moves to tions against him. Besson has admitted having The maker of hits such as lice in May 2018 after spending cutors that she had to escape on started to shoot outwards into From these three peaks, it is possible to being discovered,” challenging Norway where the Peace Prize is A judge reopened a rape in- a relationship with Van Roy but “Nikita”, whose legal problems the night with Besson in a luxury “her hands and knees” from an conclude that if 31% (5%+26%) of the space. our preconceived ideas about awarded, with bookies predict- vestigation into the movie mogul dismissed her as a “fantasist”. have coincided with a run of Paris hotel. audition in Besson’s Paris office universe is composed of matter, then Using theoretical tools and planetary systems and “forcing ing a win for Swedish teen cli- “This case is a lie from A to Z. Two months later she said that in 2002. 69% must be dark energy to fulfil the on Friday, eight months after box office failures, also denied calculations, he drew a link be- scientists to revise their theories mate activist Greta Thunberg on requirements for a flat universe. Paris prosecutors had dropped a I did not rape that woman, I have ever harassing women or hold- she had been raped four times A source close to the new tween the temperature of the of the physical processes behind betting sites such as Ladbrokes. case brought by the Dutch-Bel- never raped a woman in my life,” ing them against their will. during over the two years when investigation said preliminary radiation emitted after the Big James Peebles took on the cosmos, with its billions of galaxies and galaxy clusters. His theoretical framework, developed the origins of planets.” The Economics Prize will gian actress Sand Van Roy, who French director Luc Besson faces a he told BFMTV. However, Besson, 60, said that she had been “in a controlling inquiries into accusations by an- Bang and the amount of matter over two decades, is the foundation of our modern understanding of the universe’s history, from the Big Bang to the In a statement, the two as - wrap up the Nobel prize season claimed that Besson had repeat- number of accusations of assault or “I have never lifted a hand to a he had a relationship with Van professional relationship” with other woman are still underway it created. present day. tronomers hailed their win as on Monday, October 14. edly raped her over a two-year harassment woman, I have never threatened Roy and had made “some mis- the director. in Paris.