Kenyan banker, Malawian farmers’ group win Norwegian prize for African green revolution

October 11th, 2009 Chavez: Nobel peace committee overlooked US warsCARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says President Barack Obama does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Chavez believes Obama didn't make any notable accomplishments to merit winning the prize, saying that rather than promote peace the U.S.

October 10th, 2009 Kenyan grandmother is happy for ObamaKOGELO, Kenya — President Barack Obama's Kenyan step-grandmother on Saturday advised this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner to be of good character and continue to work for peace. Sitting on a plastic chair outside her compound in the quite village of Kogelo, Sarah Obama told The Associate Press she believes her step-grandson's surprise win is a gift from God.

October 9th, 2009 OSLO - United States President Barack Obama has been surprisingly given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 for his extraordinary efforts in strengthening international diplomacy and for taking landmark initiatives to create a nuclear-free world. Announcing the award here, an official of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said that Obama was yet to be informed about the award, and would receive the award on December 10 this year.

October 9th, 2009 5 Norwegians decide Peace Prize winnerThere are four women and one man on the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Members are elected by Norwegian lawmakers so the panel reflects the political makeup of Parliament.

October 9th, 2009 The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize citationOSLO, Norway — The complete text of the citation awarding the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama as delivered by the Norwegian Nobel Committee: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

October 2nd, 2009 Facts about next week's Nobel Prize announcementsThe winners of the 2009 Nobel Prizes will be announced in the next two weeks, starting with the medicine prize on Monday. Here are some brief explanations of how the award winners are picked and announced.

September 14th, 2009 Oct. 6 memorial in Texas for ag scientist BorlaugCOLLEGE STATION, Texas — A memorial service for Nobel Peace Prize winner and agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug has been set for Oct. 6 at Texas A&M University.

September 13th, 2009 According to the sources, Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, who is known as the father of the Green Revolution in agriculture reportedly took his last breathe on Saturday in the US state of Texas. Norman was 95.

August 20th, 2009 Kenyan police make arrest in Scottish man's deathNAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan police say they have arrested a suspect in the death of a Scottish-born geologist. Assailants armed with arrows, spears and machetes killed 72-year-old Campbell Bridges last week in an apparent dispute over mining rights in southeast Kenya.

August 5th, 2009 Israeli writer, artist Amos Kenyan dead at 82JERUSALEM — Amos Kenyan, a member of Israel's founding generation whose writing and art helped define modern Israeli culture, has died in Tel Aviv. He was 82. Born in 1927 in Tel Aviv, which had been founded less than two decades earlier by Jewish pioneers, Kenyan was a product of the city's rich cultural life.

May 3rd, 2009 LONDON - James Kambewa, the man believed to be the biological father of Mercy, the four-year-old Malawian girl pop diva Madonna is trying to adopt, is unwilling to let go his daughter and says he wants to raise the child in his own culture. 'I want to take care of her, and I'm capable of taking care of my baby...

May 2nd, 2009 African girl's dad doesn't want Madonna adoptionNEW YORK — The father of an African girl Madonna hopes to adopt says he wants to take care of his daughter himself — even though he's never met her. James Kambewa, believed to be the biological father of Chifundo "Mercy" James, said he doesn't want the pop star to adopt the 4-year-old.

April 29th, 2009 Kenyan women's group tells men: Make war? No loveNAIROBI, Kenya — Thousands of Kenyan women vowed Wednesday to begin a weeklong sex strike to try to protest their country's bickering leadership, which they say threatens to revive the bloody chaos that convulsed the African country last year. Leaders from Kenya's largest and oldest group dedicated to women's rights, the Women's Development Organization, said they hope the boycott will persuade men to pressure the government to make peace.

February 28th, 2009 OSLO - A record number of nominations, in all 205, have been made for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Institute said Friday. The tally includes 172 individuals and 33 organisations, besting the 2005 number of 199 nominations.

January 20th, 2009 MATHURA - One man was killed here when the police fired at farmers protesting against inadequate compensation paid to them for land acquired from them to build the Yamuna Expressway. The Uttar Pradesh Police said Tuesday evening that 18 people were also injured in the firing.