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Nobel Prize in literature: What to look out for

STOCKHOLM (AP) — On Thursday, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature will be announced by the first ever female permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius. Will the prize awarding body choose to honor the occasion by picking a female winner? Will it break new ground by giving the prize to a journalist? Or will it rush to bestow the coveted prize on one of the

Street artists give Kiev colourful makeover

In a mural splashed across a four-story building in central Kiev, a small boy nonchalantly throws paper planes. The peaceful image is just one example of the colourful street art springing up across the Ukrainian capital, reflecting a new mood of optimism in a city once criss-crossed by barricades. The artist, 28-year-old Oleksandr Korban, is a former miner who fled the armed conflict in the separatist Donbass region of eastern

GE combines technologies into energy efficiency company

(Reuters) – General Electric Co said on Wednesday it had started a company to focus on energy efficiency to help corporate and other customers lower their energy bills and better manage power distribution. The new company, called Current, will integrate GE’s LED, solar, energy storage and electric vehicle businesses with GE’s growing data and analytics platform. The company, which will be run by Maryrose Sylvester, who has been president of