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NOBEL WEEK

Finland's ex-president Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize

Martti Ahtisaari. Photo: EFE
Finland's former ruler got the Prize for a long career of peace mediation work including a 2005 accord between Indonesia and rebels in its Aceh province. He had a diplomatic career stretching from Africa to the Balkans.

LAUNCHING

New eitb.com: nothing will be the same anymore

EITB takes a turn and that is reflected on the new logo
What you’re watching at the moment will never be the same. A new era is starting in EITB around 6, 00 p.m. and you are an important part of it.

GREAT CELEBRATION

ETB-3 and eitb.com to be launched tomorrow

ETB-3 and eitb.com will be launched tomorrow. Photo: EITB
The Basque premier Juan Jose Ibarretxe will inaugurate EITB’s new information services.

NOBEL WEEK

J.M.G. Le Clezio wins Nobel Prize for Literature

French writer J.M.G. Le Clézio. Photo: EFE
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, French novelist born in Nice, was already awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1963.

OBITUARY

Jose Luis Garza, one of the fattest men in the world, dies

Garza followed in the footsteps of the world's fattest man, Manuel Uribe, by taking his weight problem public and going on television to ask for help. He was pronounced dead Tuesday of heart failure.
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OBITUARY

Basque writer Gotzon Garate dies at 74

The Basque writer Gotzon Garate. Photo: EITB
He wrote about 30 books in Basque. He mainly became famous for his crime novels and for his works about the oral Basque language. He will be buried on Thursday in Loiola.

NOBEL'S WEEK

Shimomura, Chalfie and Tsien get Nobel chemistry prize

Nobel Chemistry Prize-the three winners. Photo: EFE
Their work has helped scientists study how cancer cells spread. The academy said they share the prize for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.

JAPAN

Naked man swims in Imperial Palace moat

The man got out of the water, chased police with a rock and a plastic construction site pole. He then went back to the murky water and climbed up the stone wall of the palace. He was caught by police.
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FACTBOX

Nobel Physics prize winners

Nambu, Kobayashi and Maskawa shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics, for theoretical insights that have provided a deeper understanding of what happens in the tiniest building blocks of matter.

SUB-ATOMIC PARTICLES

Two Japanese, American awarded with physics Nobel

Toshihide Maskawa. Photo: EFE
The Nobel committee lauded Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born American citizen, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan for separate work that helped explain why the universe is made up mostly of matter.
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