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Finns are prouder of their country's contributions to animal fodder than they are of achievements in mobile communications technology, according to a study in the home country of Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker.
 
Only one in six Finns was even able to name a Finnish invention or scientific achievement, the survey conducted by research firm Yhdyskuntatutkimus for the Finnish Society for Scientific Information, said.
 
Of those, nearly four times as many Finns named preserved animal fodder, invented by 1945 Nobel Prize winner A.I. Virtanen, a notable Finnish scientific achievement as selected the runner-up, sugar substitute xylitol.
 
Nokia, mobile phone-related inventions and open source computer operating system Linux ranked below genetic research, but above a plate-drying cupboard as notable achievements, the study showed.
 
China's central bank will drop former leader Mao Zedong's face from six million new 10 yuan (74 pence) notes to mark next month's Olympic Games.
 
One side of the new cyan-coloured note features the National Stadium, or Bird's Nest, in north Beijing, the main venue for the August 8-24 Games.
 
The "Chinese Seal, Dancing Beijing" Games emblem, designed to look like the red-inked Chinese character stamps used since imperial times, is positioned above the nest, with the capital's historic Temple of Heaven public park as a backdrop.
 
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