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Norwegian king offers Obama lodging for Nobel prize ceremony
Oslo - The Norwegian King Harald V is to offer US President Barack Obama board and lodging if need be when the US leader visits Oslo to collect his Nobel Peace Prize in December. Palace spokesman Sven Gj Gjeruldsen told the Friday edition of the Afte...
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EXTRA: 2009 a record year for women Nobel winners; Ostrom a first
Stockholm - The shared Nobel economics prize for Elinor Ostrom of the United States on Monday further underscored that 2009 was a record-year for women prize winners. Ostrom, of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, became the first woman to wi...
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Adidas plans to make one-euro sports shoes for world's poor
Frankfurt - Adidas, the German sports-shoe company, confirmed Sunday plans to make one-euro shoes to offer to the poor and barefoot of the world, with pilot production to begin next year in Bangladesh. Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus sugges...
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Mueller weeps as she remembers poet who survived camps
Frankfurt - Herta Mueller, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, wept Wednesday as she remembered a fellow ethnic German poet from Romania who collaborated with her on her latest book. Mueller was picked last week for the prize for a body...
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Tutu lambasts EU over climate-change 'bickering'
Brussels - The European Union is fiddling while the world's climate burns, South African Nobel Peace prize winner Desmond Tutu said in a strongly-worded open letter Thursday as EU leaders opened a summit in Brussels. Around the world, hope of a fair...
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