Americans and German share Nobel Prize in physics

AMERICANS John L Hall and Roy J Glauber and German Theodor W Haensch won the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for work that could lead to better long-distance communication and more precise navigation worldwide and in space.

The Nobel prize for medicine or physiology was shared by two Australians on Monday for showing that a bacterium, rather than stress, causes stomach inflammation and ulcers.

The discovery of the