South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

🔮 The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 12 million Swedish crowns, or about $1.2m, is due to be presented in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will.

🔮 Mourinho digs at Man City appeal saying it will outlast him - list 4 of 4Man City must ‘stick together’ after Premier League charges, says Haaland Since then, TFG has overseen Everton’s move into the Hill Dickinson Stadium and worked to improve the club’s financial position.

🔮 Election Commission data cited by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party shows about 130 million names, more than the population of Japan, have been deleted from electoral rolls during the verification exercise, including 63 million people who had relocated and 30m who could not be traced.

🔮 The injuries ranged from minor to severe, and the attacks caused material damage, it said, adding that airport operations had resumed and air traffic had returned to normal. Separately, the kingdom’s national carrier confirmed that a Saudia Airlines pilot was killed, and an aircraft was damaged at Riyadh airport. “It is with profound sadness that Saudia announces the passing of Captain Hamoud Ali Alkalthami,” the Saudi flag-carrier said in a statement, citing an “incident” at King Khalid International Airport. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) also temporarily suspended its flight operations to Riyadh, citing the “situation in the Middle East”. PIA’s decision follows similar moves by several other airlines, including Lufthansa Group and three Indian carriers, which suspended flights to Riyadh on Thursday. A Lufthansa spokesperson told Reuters that the German group’s airlines would suspend flights to the Saudi capital until October 16, citing “current developments in the Middle East”.

🔮 “It's entirely frustrating that we are here in 2026 and still dealing with this,” said one of the protesters, Brianna Williams, 40, who works for a nonprofit.

🔮 The US will livestream the army’s upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon said, in what would be an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution.

🔮 Labour had been widely expected to hold the seat, as Mr. Burnham seeks to repair his party's damaged appeal among core voters in big cities after two bruising years in government under Mr. Starmer.

🔮 China is set to resume October refined fuel exports after a brief halt during its Golden Week holiday, a move that will help ease tight global fuel markets, four traders familiar with the matter said on Friday (October 9,, 2026).

🔮 “Sinn Fein will continue to stand with the Garvaghy Road residents who should be allowed to live in peace and free from sectarian intimidation,” the party said in the statement.

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