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Photo: A visitor reaches for one of the first mugs of beer after the tapping of the first barrel during the opening ceremony of the 180th Oktoberfest at the Hofbraeu tent in Munich, Germany, on Saturday. Millions of beer drinkers will come to the Bavarian capital over the next two weeks for the annual event, which runs until Oct 6.

Bilingual: Speaking at the premiere of a documentary film about his life, Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist, said: "I think the brain is like a program in the mind, which is like a computer, so it's theoretically possible to copy the brain on to a computer and so provide a form of life after death."