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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