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A life-size cardboard cutout photo of Japanese scientist Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Nagoya University, is surrounded by his laboratory staff members as they raise hands and shout "Banzai", or "Cheers."
Science
The blue LED just won the Nobel Prize, but we’ve been reaping its benefits for years
Relatives hold pictures of missing students during a demonstration demanding their safe return on the outskirts of Chilpancingo, Mexico, on October 7, 2014.
Justice
Mistrust and confusion surround the disappearance of 43 Mexican students
Health workers attend a protest on October 7, 2014, outside Madrid's La Paz Hospital calling for Spain's health minister, Ana Mato, to resign after a Spanish nurse contracted Ebola.
Health
At the hospital where a Spanish nurse got Ebola, workers say their training was poor
Turkish soldiers are silhouetted atop armoured vehicles near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border on October 3, 2014.
Conflict
The US has lots at stake in the Syrian border town of Kobane
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 7, 2014
Uniqlo's shiny flagship store in New York City's Soho.
Culture
The shiny Uniqlo empire has a dark side
Carmen Lamacchia handles modified, gluten-friendly wheat in her laboratory in Southern Italy.
Food
‘Gluten-friendly’ wheat could let celiac sufferers enjoy pasta — and become a big-money innovation
Kobane sits right on the border with Turkey
Conflict
US airstrikes are ‘not enough’ to save a besieged Syrian city from ISIS