Orange announces that it is ending its 17-year sponsorship of The Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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Orange pulls out of fiction prize

Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey, designer Peter Saville and comic Harry Hill donated artworks to help save a gallery after it lost regular Arts Council funding.

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Artists donate to gallery auction

In Chicago for a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners, Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other historic figures dropped in on more than a dozen public schools throughout the city.

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Gorbachev and Other Nobel Laureates Visit Chicago Schools

The search is on in the US for the winners of the world’s biggest lottery jackpot – $640m (£400m) – with three tickets announced as sharing the prize.

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U.S. News and World Report released its second annual rankings for “best diets” today, just in time for Americans who have resolved to lose weight or eat healthier in the new year. The Dash Diet took the prize for best overall again this year, while Weight Watchers earned best weight-loss category status. Read full article > >

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Dash Diet, Weight Watchers, named top diets

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is presented jointly to three women at a ceremony in Oslo

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Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo

Frankenstein stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller jointly scoop the prize for best actor at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

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Double win for Frankenstein stars

In diplomacy, as in politics , there are plenty of cases in which a world leader has been caught unaware on a “hot” microphone. There have been fewer, if any, in which that leader has been caught calling another an outright liar. French President Nicolas Sarkozy takes the prize. Sarkozy, in Cannes for the G-20 summit last week, believed he was speaking privately with President Obama when he reportedly described how frustrating he finds Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But their microphones were on, and the conversation was picked up by reporters listening to a simultaneous translation. Read full article > >

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Sarkozy to Obama: Netanyahu is a ‘liar’

Three U.S.-born scientists won the prize for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

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Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Perlmutter, Schmidt and Riess for Work on Expanding Universe

Three men whose work helped uncover how the immune system works, and in so doing identified three milestones in an evolutionary path extending two billion years into the past, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. This year’s award, however, is unique in the 110-year history of the world’s most famous prize in that one of the recipients — Ralph M. Steinman of Rockefeller University — was dead when the award was announced. Rules for the prize stipulate that recipients must be living. Read full article > >

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Three win medicine Nobel Prize for helping unlock secrets of the immune system

Jockeys could lose their riding fees and percentage of the prize pot if they break tough new whip rules announced by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).

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Tougher penalties for whip abuse

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71.

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First African Woman to Win Nobel Peace Prize Dies

PJ Harvey has been named the winner of this year’s Mercury Music Prize with her album Let England Shake, 10 years after she first won the award.

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Harvey wins Mercury Music Prize

British author Aminatta Forna’s novel The Memory of Love is named best book at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize ceremony in Sydney.

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Motherwell take on Celtic at Hampden with the Scottish Cup the prize for the winner.

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Live – Scottish Cup final