鈥淚t鈥檚 a terrible problem. They鈥檙e like aliens.鈥�
Fishing official Noriyuki Kani from Toyama prefecture on an invasion of giant jellyfish around Japan鈥檚 coast, some as big as 2 metres in diameter and weighing 200 kilograms (The Japan Times, Tokyo, 21 January)
鈥淵ou would be constantly depressed and tired and not have time for your family.鈥�
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One reason British children gave when explaining why they did not want to be scientists (BBC online, 20 January)
鈥淚t will showcase the people and touching stories behind China鈥檚 atom and hydrogen bomb programmes.鈥�
The Xinhua News Agency on a soon-to-open museum of nuclear technology at Mianyang in Sichuan province (19 January)
鈥淲ally, who died on Saturday after two days of drama, belongs to the queen under a salvage law passed in 1324.鈥�
The Sun newspaper launches an appeal to save the bones of Wally, a bottlenose whale that caused a sensation in London when it swam up the river Thames (The Sun, London, 23 January)
鈥淲e鈥檝e always had pests in New York city 鈥� we have rats, cockroaches, etc 鈥� but bedbugs are new.
City councillor Gail Brewer, who is calling for a task force to tackle a growing infestation of the blood-sucking parasites (Associated Press, 22 January)
鈥淭he question is who earned the money. You earned it. It鈥檚 yours.鈥�
Pierre Guilbault, work colleague of businessman Robert Miller who plans to leave money to himself in his will. Miller hopes to be cryogenically preserved after his death and later revived (The Wall Street Journal, New York, 21 January)