In December, BBC World will be showing a series of programmes about the Nobel Foundation, including debates from Stockholm and profiles of this year’s Nobel Laureates.
Nobel Peace
11th, 12th & 14th December
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious - and yet one of the most controversial - awards established in Alfred Nobel's will. This year's winner is Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer. While her supporters were naturally delighted with the decision, her hardline opponents were angry at recognition for a woman they consider to be a dissident. At the start of BBC World's Nobel season of programming, this documentary profiles Ebadi and her life as an activist.
Nobel Minds
13th & 14th December
This year’s Nobel Prize winners gather to discuss how and why their achievements are of relevance to the major issues of our time. The debate is chaired from Stockholm by Nik Gowing.
Nobel Winners
13th & 14th December
The Nobel Prize, the first international prize awarded annually since 1901, celebrates achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, literature and peace. In this documentary, we profile this year’s winners and their achievements.
Technology
20th & 21st December
Former Nobel Science laureates return to Stockholm to explore how developments in new technology can be harnessed to the “greatest benefit of mankind”. (Alfred Nobel)
Six die in Moscow suicide blast
Six people are killed in an explosion in Moscow, which is being described as a botched suicide bombing.
Pro-Putin party triumphs in poll
President Putin faces election himself in March
The party backing President Putin is heading for a convincing victory in Russia's parliamentary elections.
With more than 90% of the votes counted, the pro-Kremlin United Russia Party leads with almost 37%.
The ultra-nationalist party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the Communists are vying for second place.
It seems likely that two liberal, pro-free market parties will fail to get the 5% of votes needed to win party list seats in the State Duma.
Experts say Mr Putin now seems assured of gaining a second term in presidential elections next March.
The same rail service was bombed in September
Putin says bombers will not win
Russia will not be cowed by terror attacks after a bomb on a commuter train killed 42 mainly young people, President Vladimir Putin has said.
Most of the dead and some 200 injured in the rush-hour blast in southern Russia were students going to classes.
Security is being further tightened ahead of Sunday's parliamentary poll.
A minister suggested Chechen rebels were behind the bombing near the town of Yessentuki but Chechnya's separatist leadership in exile denied this.
"We condemn all terror acts and acts of violence... directed against the civilian population," the separatists' foreign ministry said on the rebel website Kavkaz Centre.
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There is also a special report from Nova Scotia in Canada, where golf is coming to the aid of the local tourist industry.
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Pro-Putin party triumphs in poll
The same rail service was bombed in September
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