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- Rumesh Pathirage of Sri Lanka won gold in Men's Javelin Throw at the 2026 Asian Games with a throw of 88.55 meters. (more)
- Morocco’s King Mohammed VI named Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as prime minister, making the 50-year-old the first woman to hold the role in the kingdom. (more)
- Iranian human-rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was awarded the Council of Europe's Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize for her longstanding commitment to human rights. (more)
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- Team Vietnam, Bui Ngoc Nhi, Hoang Thi Thu Uyen and Nguyen Ngoc Tram, won gold in the women’s team Karate, delivering Vietnam’s first gold medal at the 2026 Asian Games. (more)
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Breath, not blood: device measures fat burning in exhaled air
Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a portable measuring device that detects the metabolic marker acetone in breath almost as accurately as a mass spectrometer. It can be used by laypeople and detects when the body starts burning fat when dieting or during exercise.
Thanks to a smartphone app that guides test subjects in real time, the hand-held device can also be used reliably by non-experts.
In future, this should allow diets and therapies for metabolic disorders to be more closely monitored and personalised. (More)
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