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The WikiLeaks site was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, said a Norwegian parliamentarian Snorre Valen, author of the proposal, a day after the end of the deadline for applications. The Norwegian Nobel Committee accepted until February 1, the nominations for the prize regarded by many as a major honor in the world, although the five members [...]

Al Gore, former vice president, Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Tim Berners-Lee: scientist credited for inventing the Internet as we know it. The two most enviable resumes, though kind of different, to appear in Campus Party 2011, refined the speech today to defend, for an hour and a half, freedom and democracy of the internet. Al Gore, who began [...]

The Mozilla developers are rushing to fix a new bug in Firefox browser, which is being used by criminals to install malicious software on victims’ computers. The flaw was discovered last Tuesday by the security company Norman, who discovered the error after reviewing secretly installed malicious code on the website of Nobel Peace Prize “If [...]

Who would have thought, that one day an inanimate entity such as the Internet would become such an important tool of our lives that, our very existence and the world peace would one day be dependent on the effect of the online world on our lives. Well, no need to put your creative imagination into overdrive, because for the year 2010, the internet has [...]

US President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize while ‘justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to the “graveyard of empires”.’ Obama’s acceptance speech was used as a rationale to deliver a ‘lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s [...]

On his way to collect Nobel Peace Prize on 10th Dec President Obama is likely to make a quick stopover in Copenhagen on 9th Dec to attend international climate change meeting. Not only would he be attending a meeting, he is expected to announce reduction of greenhouse gases by US in the coming years. Of course this will be provisional target of US [...]

There have been great people who deserved the Nobel Peace Prize more than Henry Kissinger or Yasir Arafat but, then again, the award-giving Norwegian Nobel Committee reserves the right to choose. Here are some of those who missed the rightful glory. Gandhi should have been an obvious winner. Who to better embody the spirit of peace than the most famous [...]

In spite of some heavy criticism against the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize having been awarded to US President Barack Obama, there has also been some good cheer in support of what the US president tries to do for world peace. According to former US President Jimmy Carter, himself a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2002 or two decades after finishing his presidential [...]

‘For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,’ US President Barack Obama is ‘the surprise winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.’ The Nobel committee in Norway awards ‘Obama’s commitment to nuclear disarmament and his emphasis on the role of the United Nations.’ According [...]