To commemorate World Food Day, we look back on science's role in alleviating the hunger crisis. Whale breeding, desert sugar factories, and oyster soup capsules, yum.

为了纪念世界粮食日(World Food Day)，我们回溯了科技在缓解饥饿危机中的作用。

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The prime minister and his Algerian counterpart will pay their respects to those who died in the hostage crisis in the desert.

BBC: What is the UK doing in North Africa?

The crisis at the remote In Amenas desert gas facility began on Wednesday when militants attacked two buses carrying foreign workers.

BBC: Algeria hostage-takers 'surrounded at In Amenas plant'

Back then, the nation was in the grips of another Iran-related oil crisis, and to many, this highway through the Utah desert seemed like the road to energy security.

NPR: Squeezing Oil Out of Stones in the Rocky Mountains