Briton faces death in Saudi Arabia over wine
Karl Andree, has been in prison in Saudi Arabia since August 2014 after being caught with homemade wine. His one-year sentence has been completed, but he is still behind bars awaiting punishment. The 74 years old British man is awaiting his punishment of 350 lashes according to Saudi flogging law. Alcohol, like narcotics, weapons, pork […]
Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015
Marlon James has become the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker prize, as he receives it for his third novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings”. He was the only Jamaican to be shortlisted in this year’s round, as the shortlist included two authors from the US and another two from the UK, […]
Deaton claims Nobel Prize in Economy
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015 to Angus Deaton of Princeton University, NJ, USA. Deaton claimed the award for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. To design economic policy that promotes welfare and reduces poverty, we must first understand individual consumption choices. […]
Nobel awards literature prize to war documenting
In one it’s most notable awards, Nobel awarded it’s literature prize for 2015 to Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time. She’s a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer. Of her most famous books, “War’s Unwomanly Face” documenting women through WWII, “Zinky Boys” which handles first-hand […]
Twin bombings rock Ankara
Two powerful bombs exploded at a peace rally near the main train station in Ankara on Saturday morning, killing over 100 people and wounding 246 others in the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in recent memory. The victims were attending a lunchtime peace march calling for an end to the renewed conflict between the […]
“Netflix” comes to Korea in 2016
The biggest on-demand internet streaming media “Netflix” is expected to be available in Korea starting next year. As Greg Peters, head of international projects at Netflix, said during his speech in streaming international convention held at Coex mall in Seoul in September. He explained that his company plans to start implementing Netflix in Korea by 2016. Netflix […]
Women in Truman Capote’s world
Truman Capote, the American writer, who’s mostly known for his nonfiction book “In Cold Blood”, wrote a number of novels and short stories, and though their protagonists weren’t always female, there always seemed to be an interesting female character in everything he wrote, and the reason why they were so interesting is because they […]
Swedish, American and Turkish share Nobel prize in Chemistry 2015
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Swedish Tomas Lindahl of Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, UK, American Paul Modrich of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine,USA, and Turkish Aziz Sancar of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,USA , for mechanistic studies of […]
Meyer releases gender-swapped Twilight
Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has written a 442-page “reimagining” of her vampire novel, in honor of the book’s 10th anniversary, swapping the genders of her two protagonists. In the new novel, Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, the role of shy high school student Bella Swan is reassigned to a young man, Beau, while enigmatic vampire Edward […]
Nobel prize 2015 in medicine fights parasites
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites; and the other half to Youyou Tu for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria. The Nobel prize […]
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