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September 15th, 2009 LONDON - McGraw-Hill Medical won a number of honours and awards at the British Medical Association's Medical Book Competition awards ceremony, including two category first prize awards and the contest's top prize, Medical Book of the Year. The coveted award went to the ground-breaking Robotic Surgery: Theory and Operative Technique by Drs Farid Gharagozloo and Farzad Najam.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - Karbon Kinetics Limited (KKL) today announced that Gocycle(R) - a new class of city bicycle combining on-demand electric power, and clean, seamless urban design - has won the GOLD Award at the 2009 EUROBIKE show, the world's leading tradeshow for the bicycle industry. (Photo: Organised by iF International Forum Design GmbH and sponsored by Messe Friedrichshafen, the EUROBIKE GOLD Award was presented to Gocycle on September 2nd in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

July 12th, 2009 OXFORD, England - International medical communications company, Watermeadow Medical was named Medical Education Consultancy of the Year at the Communique Awards in London on Thursday night. This highly contested award is judged by an independent panel of communications experts, who assess excellence and innovation in the delivery of medical education for healthcare clients, along with business strategy, client retention, client satisfaction, financial performance, and staff development.

June 21st, 2009 MATTHEWS, North Carolina - CEM Corporation has won a 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in the Greener Reaction Conditions category for its Sprint(TM) Rapid Protein Analyzer. The company will accept the award this evening during a ceremony at the Carnegie Institute for Science (CIS) in Washington, DC.

June 18th, 2009 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France - Welcome Real-time today announced that the company has been awarded the 'Best Innovation in a Loyalty Program' award in VRL's annual awards dinner at Cards & Payments Europe 2009. This award is recognized based on its partnership with Venture Infotek, India's leading transaction processing company.

May 18th, 2009 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Neohapsis, a leading provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) products and services, today announced that the company has been named one of the top 100 most promising technology companies in North America by Red Herring. To select the Top 100, the Red Herring editorial team diligently surveys entrepreneurship around the globe.

May 13th, 2009 MILTON KEYNES, England - Safenames, an online brand protection services company and global domain name registrar, successfully recovered multiple domain names for five revered members of the English Premier League. In the fiercely contested English Premier League, it is rare if not unimaginable that the clubs would unite, but in order to address the shared problem of online trademark infringement cases that illegally profit from famous and beloved brands; the decision to form an alliance was simple.

April 29th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - SynCo Bio Partners B.V. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the cGMP manufacturer of clinical and commercial biopharmaceuticals, has won the Vaccine Industry Excellence (ViE) award for Best Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) 2009.

April 20th, 2009 LONDON - Evaluate Ltd, the parent company of EvaluatePharma(R), the premier online analysis service for the global pharmaceutical industry, is announced today as a winner of the coveted Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade. The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious Awards for business performance.

April 20th, 2009 LONDON - World First, one of the UK's leading foreign exchange brokers, is delighted to announce it has won the Queen's Award for International Trade. World First won the award for offering its customers exceptional exchange rates, service and innovative products which have seen its overseas earnings increase six-fold over the last three years.

June 10th, 2009 Mexican university wins Spanish awardMADRID — The National Autonomous University of Mexico has been awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities. The award foundation says in a statement Wednesday the near 100-year-old university "has become a point of reference, combining quality and an extensive academic and research offering with its firm commitment to disseminate culture, humanism and new technologies." The communication and humanities award is one of eight handed out each year by the Prince of Asturias Foundation.

May 4th, 2009 AP source: LeBron James wins NBA MVP awardCLEVELAND — A person with knowledge of the choice tells The Associated Press that Cleveland's LeBron James has won the NBA's Most Valuable Player award. James, who led Cleveland to a team record 66 regular-season wins and the top overall seed in the playoffs, will receive the award Monday afternoon at Akron St.

February 10th, 2009 LONDON - Leonardo DiCaprio has won the International Green Award at the eighth annual Cinema For Peace Gala in Berlin. The eco-friendly actor was given the award Monday by former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who first met the star when he appeared in DiCaprio's environmental documentary 'The 11th Hour', reports contactmusic.com.

September 26th, 2009 'City of Life and Death' wins Spanish film awardSAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Chinese director Lu Chuan's film "City of Life and Death" has won the top prize at Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival. The best actress award went to Lola Duenas for her performance in Spanish film "Yo Tambien," while the best actor prize went to Pablo Pineda for the same film.

January 11th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Heath Ledger won a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor Sunday for his role as The Joker in the Batman drama 'The Dark Knight'. The award came almost a year after the Australian actor died from an accidental drug overdose in New York last January.

September 4th, 2009 Portuguese award goes to Helen Keller nonprofitLISBON, Portugal — The Helen Keller International nonprofit organization has won a $1.4 million prize from a Portuguese foundation for its work in preventing blindness in the developing world, the foundation said Friday. The Champalimaud Foundation's annual Vision Award was given to the New York-based organization for its "outstanding achievements," particularly its efforts to combat vitamin A deficiency which is a leading cause of childhood blindness, the foundation said in a statement.

February 23rd, 2009 LOS ANGELES - American actor Sean Penn won the best actor Oscar for his performance in 'Milk', about late American politician Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist. 'I did not expect this, but I am touched by this appreciation.

August 20th, 2009 DUBAI - The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has bagged the Best Department Award in the field of occupational health and safety of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), WAM news agency reported Thursday. The announcement was made at the 7th Annual GCC Occupational Health and Safety Conference 2009 held here.

February 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - Late Heath Ledger's three-year-old daughter Matilda will finally become the proud owner of the Oscar statuette if he wins a posthumous award for his supporting role in 'The Dark Knight' Feb 22. Ledger is nominated for his supporting role as the Joker in the Batman movie and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided Matilda will be handed the accolade should the actor triumph at the Oscars.

August 3rd, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala Tourism has been awarded the 2009 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award in the marketing destination category and has been selected as "best in class" from amongst 236 entries worldwide. The award ceremony will take place Sep 25 during the PATA Travel Mart 2009 in Hangzhou, China, according to a Kerala Tourism release issued here Monday.