Desmond Tutu wins $1.7M Templeton Prize
LONDON (AP) - The John Templeton Foundation says it has awarded South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu one of the world's leading religion prizes...
Billboard links Obama to alleged killer
An anti-Obama advocacy group based in Idaho has decided to co-opt the image of the infamous Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes in order to attack the president...
SNL's Lovitz slams Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: 'You didn't earn that'
Former Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz is continuing his campaign against President Barack Obama. After his very profane, angry attacks on the president's tax policy -- Lovitz is now taking aim at the Nobel Peace Prize the president won back in 2010...
Happy birthday Nelson Mandela! South African icon turns 94
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Across the country, and even abroad, people are doing good deeds to honor the country's most famous statesman on his 94th birthday Wednesday...
Liberian Nobel winners confronted thugs, killers
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged Liberia...
First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize dies
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's most recognizable woman, Maathai won the Nobel in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism...
Achebe not celebrating Nigerian independence
NEW YORK (AP) - Achebe, whose "Things Fall Apart" is regarded as the founding work of postcolonial African fiction, has long been in conflict with the Nigerian government...
Iowa GOP: Obama's citizenship should be revoked because he accepted Nobel
The Iowa GOP is calling for the "reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th amendment" of the Constitution which loosely claims that any American who accepts foreign recognition should lose citizenship...
South Africa's Tutu to retire from public life
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, then used his new international stature to step up the campaign against apartheid...
Barbershop Buzz: Michael Jackson's legacy, one year later
VIDEO - As Michael Jackson's fans petition to nominate him for the 2010 Nobel Piece prize, we asked the barbershops guys if he is one of the most influential men on earth?...
