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15:48 Russia further delays delivery of Admiral Gorshkov to India:Russia has delayed delivery of a trouble-plagued aircraft carrier for at least a year on Friday, a blow to India's efforts to quickly build up naval strength as increasingly assertive Asian rival China expands its maritime reach. Read 15:47 Attack on teenage girl exposed extremist mindset in Pak: Kayani: In other news: A day after a teenage rights activist was shot in the head by Taliban militants, Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani today condemned the attack on the girl as a "heinous act of terrorism" and warned that it had exposed the "extremist mindset" confronting the country.

Kayani visited a military hospital in Peshawar to meet 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot and seriously injured by the militants during an attack yesterday in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat, located 160 km from Islamabad. T

he powerful army chief used the occasion to send out a message to the militants, saying incidents like the attack on Malala "clearly expose the extremist mindset the nation is facing." Kayani said the terrorists had underestimated the "resolve and resilience" of the people.

15:43 The Nobel Prizes were established in the will of 19th century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Each award is worth 8 million kronor, or about $1.2 million. The awards are always handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896, writes the NYT.

About half of all medications act on these receptors, so learning about them will help scientists to come up with better drugs.

The Nobel week started Monday with the medicine prize going tostem cellpioneers John Gurdon of Britain and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka. Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland won the physics prize Tuesday for work on quantum particles.

15:38 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two researchers for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.'

15:26 Two Americans share Nobel prize for chemistry: Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Americans Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka. Details in a bit.

"Out of the total affected population of 4.89 million, the number of children was 1.8 million and many of them were affected twice," 'Save the Children' Chief Executive Officer Thomas Chandy said after visiting some flood affected areas yesterday.

In any emergency in any part of the world, children were the worst sufferers and they were unable to deal with the hardship caused by displacement, lack of food and clean water, he said.

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