Open Letter to Nobel Laureates: A Plea to Exonerate Wikileak's Assange and … NEWS JUNKIE POST The honorable 2012 Nobel Prize Laureates will, on December 10, receive their awards in Oslo and Stockholm from the hands of royalty, under the eyes of a global audience in a ceremony, the focus of which falls particularly on the Kingdom of Sweden

Guest post: China in Afghanistan, a tale of two mines Financial Times (blog) Compensation for locals displaced by the site and the various ancillary projects alongside it has been slow to materialise. MCC also complained of Afghan partners being corrupt and inefficient, as documented in a US diplomatic cable revealed by Wikileaks