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New Yorkers feeling lucky buy tickets for the $415 million (USD) Mega Millions jackpot, the 10th largest lottery prize in U.S. history and the third largest in the game's history. Bob Mezan reports.
Mother of four claims $188 million share after presenting one of the three winning tickets to lottery officials. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The head of Norway's Nobel Committee, Breit Reiss-Andersen, announces that the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Belarusian human rights activist, Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organisation, Memorial, and Ukrainian human rights organisation, The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL). SOUNDBITE
American chemist Carolyn R. Bertozzi reacts by phone to receiving the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which she is sharing with Denmark's Morten Meldal and fellow American Barry Sharpless. The trio are being honoured "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". SOUNDBITE
Austria's Anton Zeilinger, winner of the Nobel Physics Prize alongside France's Alain Aspect and John Clauser of the US, holds a press conference at the Univerity of Vienna. The trio were honoured for "groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated", said the Nobel Committee for Physics. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).