Next month will mark 10 years since Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or Sars (above), made Hong Kong the epicentre of a worldwide epidemic. Mainland doctor Liu Jianlun, 64, in Hong Kong for a wedding, died here after attending patients in Guangdong. A short time later, Shanghai businessman Johnny Chen – who stayed in the same Hong Kong hotel as Liu – was treated in a hospital in Hanoi by Italian doctor Carlo Urbani …
Nobel was the loner, prone to fits of depression, who invented dynamite. He had three significant loves in his life but failed to let family or friends know he was leaving most of his wealth to inaugurate the prize. Nobel’s family firm also supplied arms in the Crimean war, where conditions were grim for injured soldiers, but were improved by a pioneering nurse, Florence Nightingale …