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BELGRADE - Accomplishing full gender equality is one of the priorities of the Serbian government and the work on that will involve all the ministries, Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said on Tuesday.

Three researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 on Wednesday for improving the resolution of microscopes. 

Their work allows optical microscopes to study cells in the tiniest molecular detail, aiding in research of diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. 

A German and two American scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for smashing the size barrier in optical microscopes, allowing researchers to see individual molecules inside living cells

Two Japanese and a US scientist won the 2014 Physics Nobel for inventing a new energy efficient light source

Three brain research scientists have won the 2014 Nobel prize for medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. 

One group has been conspicuously absent in the battle for greater transparency of global soccer governance symbolized by multiple corruption scandals and match-fixing.

Police forensic officers on Friday were examining the fragments of a remote-controlled miniature helicopter carrying explosives which blew up while in flight in the southern coastal suburb of Vouliagmeni, damaging a parked car but causing no injuries.

Police gave no details of who was suspected of operating the helicopter nor of who the potential target of the device may have been.

Turks are expected to live around four year less on average than their European counterparts, according to life expectancy data announced on Oct. 1 by the country’s statistics body.

Greek statistics service ELSTAT postponed Tuesday’s release of July retail sales data citing the need for additional checks and processing of the statistics, it said in a statement.

ELSTAT said the date of the release will be announced “soon” on its website.

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Wildlife numbers have plunged by more than half in just 40 years as Earth's human population has nearly doubled, a survey of over 3,000 vertebrate species revealed on Sept. 30.