The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan politician known for her work for the environment and founder of the Green Belt Movement in 1977, the Norwegian news agency NTB reported on Friday.
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It is known as the rebel city, wants independence from the rest of Ireland, and nurtures a nagging underdog complex. Now Cork, Ireland’s second city, will make history next year as the smallest place to be European capital of culture — on the smallest budget.

The Nobel Peace Prize being announced Friday could focus on great threats to world, such as weapons of mass destruction or HIV/Aids, peace processes that need a boost or, as it often has, come as a complete surprise to Nobel watchers. With a record 194 nominations, the committee had a broad field to choose from. It won’t say who was nominated, or who even made it into contention as a finalist.

Dawn seeps through the bleached curtain and Thembeni Ndlovu rouses the five children beside her. Yawning and stretching they shuffle into the sun while Thembeni fills a plastic bowl for bathing, sweeps the yard and scours bare cupboards for breakfast. Their clothes ragged, their feet bare, their bellies empty, the Ndlovu children are orphans.

Deep divisions between judges at the Cape High Court have been exposed since Judge President John Hlophe angrily criticised his colleagues on the Bench for resisting transformation, and the apparent involvement of Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso in the affair now raises questions about the progress of the case that sparked the row.

Andrew Meintjes died on October 5 at the age of 50 — murdered during an armed robbery at his Braamfontein, Johannesburg, studio. Meintjes was an inventor, photographer, artist and printing legend. He was a photographer’s best friend and famous among us — a Photoshop jockey who could whip any badly exposed negative into shape. Pushing the limits, he dragged out the shadow detail and found the highlights.

There is Heinz Field, home of the Steelers football team, the Heinz chapel, with its 23 stained glass windows, the Heinz hall for music lovers, the Heinz Gallery for visual art, and coming soon, in a converted red-brick factory, the Heinz riverside luxury flats.

The surge of violence in the Middle East spilled across Israel’s southern border into Egypt on Thursday night as more than 30 holidaymakers were killed and scores more injured in a devastating series of apparently coordinated car bomb attacks in Red Sea resorts.