“Both are correct heights. No measurement is absolute. This is a problem of scientific research.”

Raja Ram Chhatkuli, of Nepal’s survey department, confirms that China and Nepal have agreed to disagree over the exact height of Everest (Reuters).

“The way it is, one is inclined to say that South Africa was a springboard to contaminate the rest of the African continent by allowing multinationals to export from South African soil.”

Mariam Mayet, of the African Centre for Biosafety, is not happy about a shipment of GM maize from South Africa, which has now been seized by authorities in Kenya (Business Report, via BBC).

“This is step one, to identify programs that are going to be funded by this budget.”

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden lays out the space agency’s new space programme budget (Reuters).