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US-based Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov are named by the Swedish Academy of Sciences as the winners of the Nobel Chemistry Prize. IMAGES
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offers his "warmest congratulations" to doctor Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who just won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in developing the technology that led to mNRA vaccines against Covid 19. The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic in March 2020 and the first mRNA vaccines were approved for use against the illness in December that year. Billions of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna doses have been injected around the world since then. SOUNDBITE
Argentina's World Cup winners Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria arrive in their hometown of Rosario. IMAGES
Three Nobel Prize winners, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Jules Hoffmann and Jean Marie Lehn are vaccinated against Covid at Strasbourg University Hospital, on the first day vaccinations of over-75s and vulnerable people. IMAGES
The French tennis players who won the Fed Cup against Australia on Sunday, in Perth, are welcomed by Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace. It is France's first Fed Cup title since 2003. IMAGES
US President Donald Trump hosts baseball World Series winners, the Nationals, at the White House. The United States Marine band welcomes the winners by playing the team's unofficial theme song, "Baby Shark". IMAGES