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Bjoern H. Amland

Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman chants slogans along with anti-government protestors, during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, in June. (AP/Hani Mohammed)

Nobel Peace Prize goes to women’s rights activists

Karl Ritter, Bjoern H. Amland

Norway's twin terror attacks suspect Anders Behring Breivik, left, sits in an armored police vehicle after leaving the courthouse following a hearing in Oslo Monday July 25, 2011 where he pleaded not guilty to one of the deadliest modern mass killings in peacetime. The man who has confessed to carrying out a bombing and shooting spree that left 93 people dead in Norway will be held in complete isolation for four weeks after a hearing in which he said his terror network had two other cells. (AP Photo/Aftenposten/Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen) NORWAY OUT (AP)

Lawyer: Case suggests Norway suspect is insane

Karl Ritter, Bjoern H. Amland

In this photo released by the Philippine Naval Forces Southern Luzon, a Disaster Response and Rescue Team member holds a child as they evacuate families at an area flooded by Tropical Storm Aere in Libon town, Albay province, eastern Philippines on Monday May 9, 2011. Disaster officials warned villagers in the Philippines' agricultural north to be on guard for landslides and flash floods Monday as Tropical Storm Aere carved a deadly path across the country. (AP Photo/Philippine Naval Forces Southern Luzon) NO SALES (AP)

42 million displaced by natural disasters in 2010

Bjoern H. Amland

The Nobel Peace Prize Medal, which will be awarded to one of 241 nominees in October.

Nobel committee receives record nominations for Peace Prize

Bjoern H. Amland

Jailed Chinese dissident is honored at Nobel ceremony

Matti Huuhtanen, Bjoern H. Amland

Nobel Peace Prize may not be presented

Bjoern H. Amland