Newsademic British English edition 260

15th October 2015
British English edition
Issue Number 260
In this issue
Cephalopod 
Awareness 
Days
Madagascar's 
new dwarf 
lemur
UN 
approves Operation 
Sophia
Back 
breeding aurochs 
Dinosaur 
extinction 
explained?
Ada 
Lovelace Day 
New 
Gilgamesh tablet 
Hidden 
Himalayas report 
Election 
in Belarus 
MH17 
investigation 
Dell 
and EMC 
Charon 
images released 
Volcano 
collapse tsunami? 
Henry 
the Fifth's ships 
The 
war in Syria and Iraq 
Chernobyl's 
wildlife 
Sweden's 
moose hunt 
Migration 
into Africa 
Glossary 
Crossword and 
Wordsearch Puzzle
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used to kill people. The obituary 
described Alfred as a ‘merchant of 
death’. The words shocked Alfred. 
He then decided that he would set 
up something that brought peace and 
rewarded people for helping others.
At the time o f N obel’s death the 
same king ruled Norway and Swe- 
den.This explains why both countries 
have a part in awarding Nobel prizes. 
A group, or committee, o f academics 
from Sweden chooses the winners 
o f the prizes for medicine, literature, 
chemistry, physics, and economics. 
A different five-person committee 
selects the Peace Prize winners. The 
Norwegian Storting (Norway’s par­
liament) appoints this committee.
Former winners o f the Peace Prize 
include the Dalai Lama, the Buddhist 
leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last 
leader o f the Russian-led Soviet U n­
ion, Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson 
Mandela, who for many years were 
famous political prisoners. Mandela 
became South Africa’s first black 
president. He died in 2013 aged 95. 
Ms Suu Kyi is now the leader o f a 
political party in M yanmar (also 
known as Burma). It is not unusual 
for the Peace Prize to be given to an 
organisation and not a person. In the 
past the Red Cross, the United N a­
tions (UN) peacekeeping forces and 
the European Union (EU) have been 
given the Peace Prize.
At the beginning o f 2011 a revo­
lution took place in Tunisia. After 
huge street protests, the country’s 
president was forced to leave the 
country. M r Ben Ali had run Tunisia 
for over 20 years. The demonstra­
tors were angry about government 
corruption, the power of the police 
and the lack o f proper elections.
W hat happened in Tunisia is 
sometimes called the Jasmine Revo­
lution. 
Soon afterwards similar 
protests started in other Arab
countries such as Egypt, Yemen, Lib­
ya, Bahrain, and Syria. In these coun­
tries the demonstrators had similar 
complaints. Allthese protests are now 
known as the ‘Arab Spring’. So Tuni­
sia was where the Arab Spring began.
A lfre d N obel
Elections for an Assembly, or 
parliament, were held in Tunisia in 
2011. The Ennahda (Renaissance)