3. Nobel literature prize 
4. North Korea’s parade 
5. 1,000th birthday of Hanoi 
7. Death of aid worker 
1. Columbus Day Parade 1. Columbus Day Parade Tens of thousands of people and more than 100 bands and floats* joined the 66th annual Columbus Day Parade on Monday in New York. The Fifth Avenue of New York was lined with red, white and green as more than 35,000 people marched through during the parade. The crowds celebrated this day with high spirits as Christopher Columbus was the man who introduced the lands of America to the world in 1492. 2. Nobel economics prize Americans Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides, a British and Cypriot citizen, won the 2010 Nobel economics prize on Monday for developing theories that help explain how economic policies can affect unemployment. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says they won the prestigious* award “for their analysis of markets with search frictions*.” 3. Nobel literature prize Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most acclaimed authors and an outspoken* political activist who once ran for president in his homeland. Vargas Llosa, 74, has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays, including “Conversation in the Cathedral” and “The Green House.” In 1995, he won the Cervantes Prize, the most distinguished literary honor in Spanish. 4. North Korea’s parade The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, attended a massive military parade with his youngest son and designated* successor* on Sunday as the country celebrated the 65th founding of its Workers’ Party. The son, Kim Jong Un, wearing a dark suit despite his recent promotion to four-star general, watched the festivities with his 68-year-old father and other senior politicians and generals. 5. 1,000th birthday of Hanoi Vietnam’s capital Hanoi turned 1,000 years old on Sunday in an extravagant* ceremony intended to stoke* national pride and show the world that this once war-ravaged* country has moved beyond its dark history. More than 30,000 people marched in Vietnam’s biggest-ever parade. 6. Hungary’s toxic sludge Hungarian police have detained the director of the aluminum* company responsible for a flood of caustic* red sludge* that killed eight people when it burst from its reservoir last week, the prime minister said on Monday. Police said they were questioning managing director Zoltan Bakonyi on suspicion of public endangerment* causing multiple deaths and environmental damage. 7. Death of aid worker A British hostage who died in Afghanistan on Friday during a U.S.-led rescue mission may have been accidentally killed by the troops trying to save her, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday. Linda Norgrove, 36, who worked for a U.S. aid group, had been abducted* on September 26 along with three Afghan co-workers when they visited a project in a remote part of Kunar province, a lawless region bordering Pakistan. Britain’s Foreign Office had said on Saturday that Norgrove had been killed by her captors during a failed rescue attempt. (SD-Agencies) | 