Tawakul Karman – Nobel Prize Winner From Yemen

The Nobel Peace Prize will be formally presented Saturday to the three women awarded the honor this year. One of them is Tawakul Karman, a Yemeni journalist and a key figure in her country’s protests.

Reaction From Liberia on Nobel Prize

Not everyone is happy in Liberia about Sirleaf winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yemeni Activist Tawakul Karman Among Three Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Letta Tayler, a Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch, talks about Tawakul Karman.

Late Nobel Medicine Laureate Ralph Steinman Will Keep Award

Canadian scientist Ralph Steinman will keep his Nobel prize for medicine, the Nobel Foundation has said, after his death on Friday threw it into doubt.

Empty chair at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with The World’s Mary Kay Magistad in Beijing to find out whether people in China were able to follow today’s proceedings in Oslo, where the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. His absence was marked symbolically by an empty chair. Download MP3

Nobel reading

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At today’s Nobel ceremony in Oslo, actress Liv Ullman read from a speech Liu Xiabo made ahead of his sentencing last year. We have an excerpt. Download MP3

China, the Nobel and Soft Power

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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony is scheduled for Friday in Oslo, Norway. An empty chair will highlight the recipient’s absence. Human rights activist Liu Xiaobo is in China, serving an 11-year prison sentence for helping to write and circulate a petition. The Chinese government is furious about Liu’s award and has gone to great lengths to hush up news of the award back home. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports from Beijing. Download MP3

China still livid at Nobel winner

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China is still livid over the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident, Liu Xiaobo. Today, Chinese authorities blocked the dissident’s lawyer from travelling overseas, ahead of the Nobel ceremony next month. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the big picture from The World’s Beijing correspondent, Mary Kay Magistad. Download MP3

Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel

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Author and political activist Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu, who is known as one of China’s leading dissidents, is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for “subverting state power” after helping write a manifesto, called Charter 08, which calls for political change in China. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the story. Download MP3
>>Read 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo’s final statement

Tech Podcast: A Nobel for the Internet?

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The Internet, the late Senator Ted Stevens famously quipped, is “just a series of tubes.” Well, now this set of fat data pipes has its very own nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Will it win? We’ll talk about the chances on this month’s podcast round-up of great global technology stories.

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Low Cost IVF

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British scientist Robert Edwards has won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his part in developing IVF – or in-vitro fertilization. IVF is now a fairly common method of aiding conception – but it’s expensive. However there are efforts to make fertility treatment more accessible to those in the poorest regions of the world. Dr. Ian Cooke is one of the founders of the Low Cost IVF Foundation, which is based in Switzerland. Lisa Mullins talks with him. Download MP3

Muhammad Yunus and Lisa Simpson

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Bangladeshi anti-poverty banker Muhammad Yunus is to feature in an episode of The Simpsons in October. One of the Nobel peace laureate’s many admirers is actress Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson. We caught up with Smith who just returned from Bangladesh. Download MP3

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Author Saramago dies

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Portuguese Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago died today. He was 87. The World’s Alex Gallafent has an appreciation.

World Books Review: ‘The Changeling’

At its best, the Japanese Nobel Laureate’s latest novel dwells on the odd intricacy of a long-running traumatized relationship, which is equal parts love, jealousy, and sexual tension.

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Global Political Cartoons: Dec 5 – 11, 2009

The World’s Carol Hills picks out her favorite political cartoons from the past week. In this episode: polar bears float on ever-receding floating ice chunks; Copenhagen climate change delegates blow a lot of hot air; the Nobel Peace Prize winner wears Army fatigues, and the sexy new look of Tiger Woods’ golf clubs.

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