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Fans pay tribute to British singer Liam Payne at the Buenos Aires Obelisk, after the former One Direction member fell to his death from a hotel balcony in the capital. IMAGES
British comedian Russell Brand leaves court after his first hearing for rape and sexual assault charges. Brand faces two counts of rape, two of sexual assault and one of indecent assault. He was released on bail after a brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court. IMAGES
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean author Han Kang, whose work confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. She is honoured "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the Swedish Academy says. SOUNDBITE
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha. The group receives the honour "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons," says Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. SOUNDBITE
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