Opening of DAAD Centre of Excellence in South Africa With Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tutu

September 16th, 2009 ANTWERP, Belgium - - Leading Cancer Groups and Archbishop Desmond Tutu Unite in Call to Action in the Fight Against Prostate Cancer ANTWERP, Belgium, September 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A coalition of influential European advocacy and professional groups are meeting today to call for action by the European Parliament to commit to serious steps to reduce the number of men affected by, and dying from prostate cancer, by ensuring timely access to information, care and support services for men at risk or with prostate cancer. The call to action is being launched during European Urology Week, as part of a new campaign, the Proactive Prostates Initiative, at a meeting in Antwerp, which is being hosted by Europa Uomo and the European Association of Urology.

August 24th, 2009 NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands - - Global Campaign Wants to Attract Millions of People Millions, if not billions, of people throughout the world will hold still for one minute on Saturday November 28th, at exactly 15:00 hours GMT, for world peace. This is the goal of the Dutch organisation Minute-of-World- Peace, which launches a campaign in 133 countries today to ask for people's attention for world peace.

July 22nd, 2009 VIENNA, Austria - - Andie MacDowell and Carl Lewis Will Attend - Press Conference on July 24 at 11 p.m. at the Palais Niederosterreich in Vienna WORLD AWARDS MEDIA, the State of Lower Austria and the SUPERFUND Investment Group invite you to the international press conference for the first SAVE THE WORLD AWARDS 2009 on July 24th at the Zwentendorf Nuclear Reactor.

July 2nd, 2009 LINDAU, Germany - Mars will showcase its cocoa sustainability program as part of a summer-long sustainability exhibition on Mainau Island, one of Germany's most popular tourist destinations. The exhibition, which opens today, follows on from the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany last week, in which Mars played a significant role.

June 21st, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - SYSTIME, the largest Oracle JD Edwards practice globally, announced yesterday, the expansion of its international presence by opening offices in Johannesburg (Gauteng) and Cape Town, South Africa. SYSTIME's presence in South Africa reaffirms the company's commitment to provide a local presence globally to all clients.

May 25th, 2009 VIENNA, Austria - The University of Vienna will confer an honorary doctorate in theology on the South African Theologian and Nobel Laureate, Dr Desmond Tutu. The University substantiates the honour with Tutu's outstanding achievement in applying a theology of "Ubuntu".

May 7th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Las Vegas singer Brian Evans, who opens for the likes of Jay Leno, Joan Rivers, Social Distortion among others, has signed for public relations in South Africa with South Africa based PR firm Platinum PR (platinumpr.co.za). (Photo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090507/LA13571) Evans, who was named by Grammy Magazine among Norah Jones as one of the most relevant new crooners of this generation, is heard on such shows as "So You Think You Can Dance", "Big Shots", and the new movie "The Wedding Weekend".

March 30th, 2009 PARIS - OFCE Economic Research Centre Sciences PO Paris - G20, and After... - Revival - Regulation - Reform United Nations, Interactive Thematic Dialogue with the General Assembly, 25-27 March 2009 (www.un.org/ga/president/63/interactive/worldfinancialcrisis.shtml) Recommendations by the Commission of Experts, Joseph Stiglitz (Prize Nobel winner), President of the commission, Research fellow at OFCE, Jean-Paul Fitoussi (www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/fitoussi/accueil_fitou.html), President of the Sub-commission, "Macro-issues and perspectives".

March 30th, 2009 PARIS - In the news release, "OOFCE Economic Research Centre G20 and After" issued on 31 Mar 2009 08:00 GMT, by OFCE over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that an extra "O" was added to the release headline in error. The headline should have read "OFCE Economic Research Centre G20 and After" Complete, corrected release follows: - OFCE Economic Research Centre Sciences PO Paris - G20, and After...

March 24th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India, has been named the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate.

July 17th, 2009 Tutu: 2010 World Cup chance for unityBERLIN — Archbishop Desmond Tutu believes the 2010 World Cup is a good chance to demonstrate the gains South Africa has made since the end of apartheid. Tutu has long championed increased rights for minorities and the importance of friendship across ethnic boundaries.

April 1st, 2009 TORONTO - The Dalai Lama, who is an honorary citizen of Canada, will lead Nobel Peace Prize laureates at a global peace summit in Vancouver in September. According to the organisers of the summit, the Dalai Lama will lead a so-called 'dream spiritual team' at the 'Vancouver Peace Summit: Nobel Laureates in Dialogue' from Sep 26 to 29.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been barred from entering South Africa to take part in a peace conference linked to the 2010 football World Cup, plunging the country into a diplomatic row. The decision was met with outrage by fellow Nobel peace laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the former President F.

August 18th, 2009 SEOUL - Nobel laureate and former South Korean president Kim Dae Jung, 83, died Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency said, quoting hospital sources. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate died at 1.42 p.m.

March 24th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - The furore over South Africa's refusal to grant the Dalai Lama a visa to attend a peace conference in Johannesburg later this week grew with former president and Nobel laureate FW de Klerk announcing Monday he was boycotting the meeting. 'De Klerk will reluctantly not participate in the peace conference on March 27 and its associated activities if a visa is not granted to enable the Dalai Lama to attend the conference as well,' the FW de Klerk foundation said in a statement Monday.

March 23rd, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's popular archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu has threatened to boycott a peace conference planned for next week in Johannesburg after the South African government reportedly denied the Dalai Lama a visa, a newspaper said Sunday. South Africa's Sunday Independent quoted an angry Tutu as saying: 'If His Holiness's visa is refused, then I won't take part in the upcoming 2010 World Cup-related peace conference.' The Nobel Peace Prize winner accused South Africa, which has close ties with China, of 'shamelessly succumbing to Chinese pressure' and said he was 'ashamed'.

March 25th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - The organisers of a peace conference in South Africa Tuesday postponed the event indefinitely after the government refused to issue the Dalai Lama a visa to attend, causing other Nobel peace laureates to pull out. The conference, which was due to be held Friday, had planned to promote peace through football in advance of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa next year.

September 10th, 2009 Denmark's Nobel prize winner Aage Bohr diesCOPENHAGEN — Aage Bohr, a nuclear physics professor and Nobel laureate like his famed father Niels Bohr, has died at age 87. Bohr in 1975 became the second Dane to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics.

June 11th, 2009 Desmond Tutu: Obama's 'complexion' helps in AfricaLONDON — Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu says that President Barack Obama's background and race will help him influence African leaders. The anti-apartheid icon says Obama would be freer to make demands on African politicians because he can tell them: "Look here you guys, I am one of you, don't let me down." "They can't accuse him of being a neocolonialist," Tutu said during a visit to London Thursday.

August 18th, 2009 SEOUL - South Koreans Tuesday mourned the death of the country's former president and Nobel laureate Kim Dae Jung. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate died at 1.42 p.m.