News of The World CEO James Murdoch has been embroiled in a bitter war of words with two of his former senior executives after he denied being warned of the phone hacking scandal within the organisation as long ago as 2008.
RIYADH – King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, is scheduled Tuesday evening to crown the winners of the 2010 King Faisal International Award at a prize-giving ceremony at the King Faisal Center in Riyadh.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey also won the award for Services to Islam. The other winners at the ceremony include the joint winners of the Studies Dealing with Arabic Grammatical Thought, Abderrahman El-Houari Hadj-Saleh from Algeria and Ramzi Mounir Baalbaki from Lebanon. Reinhold Ganz from Germany, Jean-Pierre Pelletier from Canada and Johanne Martel Pelletier, also from Canada, share the prize for Medicine, while Enrico Bombieri of the USA and Terence Chi-Shen Tao, Australia/USA, were jointly awarded the Mathematics prize. Invitations have been made available to persons wishing to attend lectures given by the winners at the King Faisal Lecture Hall and Al-Khozama Hotel. – Okaz/SG
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