TGIF Edition 9 October 09

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“Bring her home!” WELLINGTON, OCT 9 – Angela Symes, the mother of missing West Auckland toddler Aisling, says her daughter vanished in the time it took to turn off a tap. There has been no sign of the two-year-old since she went missing from Longburn Rd, Henderson about 5.30pm on Monday. Police say it is more likely she has been abducted than drowned in one of the local waterways, and have more than 60 officers working to get her home. Alan and Angela Symes faced media yesterday to talk about their ordeal, but Mrs Symes was too overwrought to speak. Today she clasped a Winnie the Pooh toy on her knee, which she bought for Aisling on Monday morning, just hours before she disappeared. “I can’t seem to put him (the bear) down,” she told Campbell Live with her husband at her side. She said before Aisling vanished on Monday afternoon she had been inspecting a washing machine at the Longburn Road property with Aisling and her elder daughter Caitlin, five, in tow. “I turned off the hot tap, looked behind me – she was there watching what Caty and I were up to. I turned off the cold tap looked behind me and she was gone -- that fast.” She leapt out the door screaming out Aisling’s name, but there was no trace of her. “I just can’t believe that she moved so quickly. In the time it took just to turn off a tap, she was gone.” Mrs Symes had a message for her daughter’s She was always watching Aisling, who turned abductor. two in June, because she was so fast and fit, Mrs “She’s not a doll. She’s somebody who loves her Symes said. parents, her family, her sister, her pets. She belongs Aisling was a stubborn and bold girl who was not with us. She needs to be back with us. easily diverted from her purpose, she said. “We miss her terribly and no matter what reason

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Obama wins $2m, and Nobel Prize OSLO – US President Barack Obama has won this year’s $2 million Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced in Oslo tonight. The surprise win comes only nine months into Obama’s presidency. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited Obama’s “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.” Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said the committee had considered what Obama had done during the year, and the prize was not for the future when asked about challenges facing Obama and the US, in for instance Afghanistan. Jagland

told broadcaster CNN that the five-member committee’s decision was “unanimous”. He said that Obama had done most for peace“in the past year,” citing the US president’s efforts to promote nuclear disarmament. It is the third time a sitting US president has won the coveted award. In 1906 the prize was awarded to President Theodore Roosevelt while in 1919 it was won by President Woodrow Wilson. Obama becomes the 90th winner of the award since 1901. “There have been positive reactions from Russia and the People’s Republic of China to his initiatives,”

Jagland told reporters. Jagland, a former Norwegian prime minister and foreign minister, earlier this year took over as chair of the Nobel Committee. He also mentioned Obama’s support for international organizations like the United Nations. “If you look at the history of the Nobel prize, we have tred to enhance what many personalites have tried to do,”Jagland said, citing the efforts in the 1970s byWest German ChancellorWilly Brandt and in the 1980s by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The prize – worth 10 million kronor (1.4 million dollars) – is scheduled to be presented in Oslo on

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December 10. There were a record 205 nominations for the 2009 peace prize, of which 33 organizations. Last year former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari won the peace prize for his mediation efforts. Former US President Jimmy Carter was named winner of the peace prize in 2002. The peace prize was the fifth of this year’s Nobel awards, which are also made for medicine, physics, chemistry and literature.The prizes were endowed by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. – DPA


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