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Victoria Beckham has described the late Karl Lagerfeld as a "genius" as she led the emotional outpouring following his sad death this week.
Fashion designer and creative director of luxury brand Chanel Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85.
Mats Malm, Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy announces that French author Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Literature Prize "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." SOUNDBITE
One of the Nobel Physics Prize's joint winners, Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger says "I am still, kind of shocked" after the prize is announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science during a press conference in Stockholm. Zeilinger won the prize alongside France's Alain Aspect and the US's John F. Clauser for groundbreaking work in the field of quantum physics. SOUNDBITE
The EU expresses condolences for friends and family of David Trimble, the Nobel peace prize-winning former first minister of Northern Ireland whose statecraft helped end decades of conflict, who died aged 77. SOUNDBITE
"I'm still trying to find my feet underneath me," Princeton professor David MacMillan tells a press conference after winning the Nobel Chemistry Prize -- an "incredibly surreal" experience, he says -- for his work developing a new tool to scale up chemical reactions in an environmentally friendly way, known as "organocatalysis." SOUNDBITE