French workers strike across France disrupt transport and schools
Tens of thousands of French transportation workers and teachers walked out in a nationwide strike to protest government policies. Trains and buses slowed, schools closed, and flights at Paris airports were canceled as demonstrators gathered in major cities. The CGT union claimed over 1 million participants, police cited 470,000.
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Americans and German win Nobel Prize in physics
Two Americans Roy Glauber and John Hall share the Nobel Prize with Theodor Haensch of Germany for optics research that improves GPS, atomic clocks and navigation. Glauber, 80, of Harvard, wins half the prize for revealing how quantum light behavior matters. Hall, 71, of Colorado, and Haensch, 63, share the other half.
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