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• Author: Peace Prizes miss Nobel's intent
OSLO, Norway - Where there's a will — someone always thinks there's another way. A Norwegian peace activist and lawyer has criticized recent decisions by the Nobel Peace Prize committee, claiming the prestigious award is not being handed out in ...
• Norwegian lawmaker turned to fortunetellers
OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian Labor Party politician took voluntary sick leave Thursday and said she wouldn't seek re-election after running up big phone bills at Parliament's expense by turning to an unusual set of advisers: fortunetellers. Saera Khan ...
• Ex-Finnish president wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oct. 2: Two clerks are cleared for defending themselves against a samurai sword wielding robber. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.  OSLO, Norway - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to ...
• French author Le Clezio awarded 2008 Nobel
... reading list. The Nobel Prize in literature is handed out in Stockholm on Dec. 10 — the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896 — along with the awards in medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. The Nobel Peace Prize is presented in Oslo, Norway.
• China suggests Nobel should not go to activists
Peace researcher Stein Toennesson, director of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, said the prize committee might pick a Chinese activist "in view of the fact that the Olympic Games did not bring the improvement many had hoped for, but ...