Satoshi Omura, professor at Kitasato University, reacts as he attends a news conference in Tokyo on October 5, 2015. Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases such as malaria and elephantiasis were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine. Irish-born William Campbell and Japan's Omura won half
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Logos of Volkswagen (right) and Audi are seen on the wheel of a car at a used-car dealership in Seoul, South Korea on October 2, 2015. German carmaker Volkswagen, rocked by a diesel emissions scandal that erupted on September 18, saw its sales in South Korea slide 7.8 percent in September from a month earlier, according to industry data
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Traders buy the newly-released Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus smartphones from people who bought the phones from an Apple Store, at Mongkok shopping district in Hong Kong, China on September 25, 2015. Apple sold a record 13 million iPhones during the debut weekend of its latest handsets, boosted by demand from China
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Inflatable ducks are seen in front of the National Congress during a protest against tax increases in Brasilia, Brazil on October 1, 2015. The campaign ‘I will not pay the Duck’ is organised by the Federation of Industries of Sao Paulo (FIESP) and uses the duck symbol in reference to industries that pay high taxes
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A businessman crosses a road at Tokyo's business district on October 1, 2015. Japanese big manufacturers' confidence worsened in the three months ended September and companies were cautious on the outlook, a central bank survey showed, as they felt the pinch from volatile financial markets and slumping shipments to China
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Dark, narrow, 100-meter-long streaks on Mars inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water are seen in an image produced by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of Arizona. Scientists have found the first evidence that briny water may flow on the surface of the Red Planet during its summer months
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Indonesian police spray water on a peatland fire in Kampar, Riau province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on September 20, 2015. Indonesia has ordered four companies to suspend operations for allegedly causing forest fires that have sent smoke across a swathe of Southeast Asia
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A view of the supermoon near Agbar tower after the lunar eclipse in Barcelona, Spain on September 28, 2015. This larger-than-average full moon was the result of a rare combination of an eclipse with the closest full moon of the year
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Peruvian shamans holding a figure of a Nino Jesus (Child Jesus) and a snake perform a ritual at the Rimac river to fight the negative effects of the Nino weather phenomena over nature in Lima on October 1, 2015
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Devotees carry an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, into the Arabian Sea on the fifth day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India on September 21, 2015. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and later immersed in a river or the sea in a ritualistic seeing-off of his journey towards his abo
