Amnesty international accuses Israel of depriving Palestine of water and mobilises net users; the web stands divided over Barack Obama’s planned education reform; and net users are invited to ask questions to Nobel Prize winners on Youtube.
The week in the Americas focuses on the Cayman Islands, a little tax haven suffering from the crisis, explains the debates about homosexuality in the US army and shows how the world reacted the the Obama's peace Nobel Prize.
The 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine has been awarded to three scientists to honour their breakthrough discovery of how chromosomes are copied and protected against degradation, the Nobel jury announced on Monday.
In this edition : Ankara and Erevan's agreement generates a wave of protests on the Armenian web ; the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Barack Obama causes many reactions ; and the steps of a stair case transformed into piano keys.
American economists Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson have won the 2009 Nobel prize for economics for their work on economic governance. Ostrom is the first woman to win the economics prize.
Last Friday the Norwegian Nobel committee took the controversial decision to award its peace prize this year to the President of the United States, Barack Obama. But is he a worthy peace prize winner?
Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, has just published ‘Other Colours’? The launch coincides with France’s celebration of Turkish culture until March 2010.
Now more than ever, US President and surprise Nobel peace laureate Barack Obama faces the daunting task of living up to the expectations of world leaders and citizens, who look to him to solve a host of global issues.
US President Barack Obama said he will accept the Nobel Peace Prize as "a call to action". However, many observers remain sceptical at the surprising and unexpected choice by Oslo's jury.
