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TAKE MY WORDS: Yunus said poverty would end if banks and governments stimulate the creative energies of poor people

Lend to beggars, Nobel laureate urges

Muhammad Yunus says world poverty will end if banks and governments stimulate the creative energies of poor people.

Zidane mesmerises poor Bangladesh

With half its population living below the poverty line, Bangladesh faces an enormous socio-economic challenge.

The Nobel Academy that gives out the Peace Prize maintains that external pressures do not affect its decisions.

Yunus began the Grameen Bank, with the aim of providing a means of livelihood to people in the famine-struck area.

The Grameen Bank is a microfinance organisation that provides credit to the poor in rural Bangladesh without any collateral.

Founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank and the bank itself were named the joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 is to be announced on Friday in Oslo and India is keeping its fingers crossed.

In her memoir, Shirin Ebadi writes about an Iran we don't really hear about, an Iran we can't quite imagine.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and anti-child labour campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

ElBaradei is the second Egyptian winner of the peace prize after former president Anwar Sadat in 1978.