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Iraqi family of Channel shipwreck victim mourn her death
In a simple house in northeast Iraq, the parents of Maryam Nuri Hama Amin mourn the loss of their beloved daughter who drowned trying to reach her fiancee in Britain.
Iranian Stanford professor becomes first woman to win top maths prize
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani on Aug. 13 became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize.