Since the Nobel Peace Prize is worth about $1.4 (£899,000) and it’s a “Foreign Official Gift”, the money has to be retained by the US Government, New Majority reports.
“The Nobel Committee has created a pretty little problem for White House counsel Greg Craig this morning,” the website says. “The value of the gift is $1.4 million. Technically, it’s a “Foreign Official Gift,” so it has to be retained by the US government.”
The website says that …

Former Arkansas Governor and 2008 presidential contender, Republican Mike Huckabee says that the Left should explain, what did US President Barack Obama do in his first two weeks as President to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
“There will be an outcry from those on the right who will say that Obama’s nomination, made two weeks into his presidency, is impossible to justify but I think such an outcry will sound like right-wing whining,” Huckabee writes …

According to a YouGov poll, 44% of the public support the Conservatives and only 27%  of the people support Labour.
The 17 points is the highest Tory leads in recent polls.
17% of the people support the LibDems, and 12% others.
(Hat tip to @ArnieEtc.)

French authorities have arrested an engineer working at the Cern nuclear research lab on suspicion of links with the terrorist group al-Qaida, The Times reports.
The suspected Islamist, one of a pair of Algerian brothers detained today, worked at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) on the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva.
The brothers were arrested in the town of Vienne in southeastern France and are suspected of being close to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb …

Despite that many people have speculated that US President Barack Obama might not accept the Nobel Peace Prize, and some have even called on him not to accept, considering that he really hasn’t done anything to deserve it, Obama is going accept the award.
The AP reports that Obama plans to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo and accept the 10 million Swedish krone (£899,000) award.

Up to one in 50 patients in hospital is being treated for problems caused by previous NHS care, The Times reports.
A study by the the NHS Information Centre found that patients in England were treated for complications resulting from treatment on 326,000 occasions over a 12-month period — equivalent to two per cent of all hospital admissions. The figures include cases of botched surgery, excessive bleeding or serious side-effects to medicines or therapies given to help …

Sky News’ editor on foreign affairs, Tim Marshall, writes in his blog, commenting on US President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win, that next year the Norwegian Nobel Committee could give the Peace Prize to Miss World, because she always hopes for a world without nuclear weapons.
“Since when do you get a Nobel Prize for making some people hope?” Marshall asks. “Hope is a good thing, without it we would be in a very dark place, …

Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dismissed suggestions that he should step down for the good of Italy’s image, saying he was the only person qualified to lead the country now and by far the best in Italian history, Reuters reports.
Berlusconi was asked by an American reporter about calls by critics that he step down because his personal and legal problems damage Italy’s image in the world. ”The reality is completely the opposite,” he said, remaining unusually …

US President Barack Obama’s win of the Nobel Prize took most people by surprise, as he has been in office for less than a year and hasn’t really accomplished anything. For example, Poland’s anti-communist leader Lech Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, said it was too early to reward Obama now.
“Who, Obama? So fast? Too fast — he hasn’t had the time to do anything yet,” Walesa said according to the AFP. ”For …

US President Barack Obama, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, said he felt “humbled” by the honour.
Obama was awoken at 6:00am at the White House by his spokesman to be told of the award. An administration official quoted Obama as saying he felt “humbled”, AFP reports.

Asda’s George brand has overtaken high street giant Marks & Spencer to become the UK’s biggest fashion retailer, the Daily Mail reports.
The trend of recession-hit shoppers switching to cheaper alternatives saw M&S slip to third place behind George at Asda and no frills chain Primark, according to the volume of clothes sold.
George recorded its its highest ever total volume market share for clothes sold at 10.1 per cent in the 12 weeks to 17th August. Primark …

Michal Kaminski, the leader of the new European Reform Group in the European Parliament, of which the Conservative Party is a member, explained in an interview to Iain Dale and Total Politics that he’s not a homophobe, as many in Britain try to picture him, and nor is he an antisemite – in fact he’s been to Israel and received top level treatment there.
Kaminski said that in Poland it’s very hard to survive for an …

NASA are to crash a 2.2 tonne rocket into the lunar surface today to look for ice and water on the Moon, everyone will be able to watch the event online through NASA TV.
The rocket that launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will create “a dimple” a third the size of a football pitch on the Moon at 12.31pm (BST), the Daily Mail reports.
The LCROSS probe will follow four minutes later and …

US President Barack Obama has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.
“The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a press release.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and …

The police spent £7.1 million to protect a so-called hunger-striker, who secretly ate McDonald’s burgers.
For weeks Parameswaran Subramaniyan lay in a tent outside the Houses of Parliament as Tamils protested about the plight of relatives under attack in Sri Lanka. At one stage, his supporters claimed he was critically weak, the Daily Mail reports.
The protest finally ended in June, but two revelations put it back in the spotlight yesterday: first, police said the event had left …

A suicide terrorist detonated his vehicle along a road near a well-known market in Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar today, killing 41 people, AP reports.
The attack in the Khyber Bazaar area came as Pakistan’s army prepares for another major operation in the al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan tribal region.
Peshawar Police Chief Liaqat Ali Khan said the attacker was in a car packed with “a huge quantity of explosives and artillery rounds”.