Last week, we reported on Malala Yousafzai. She’s a blogger and an activist for education and women’s rights. She’s 14 years old. Last Tuesday, Malala was targeted and shot by the Taliban. That’s a militant group that has a strong presence in the part of Pakistan where Malala lives. Lot of her country has rallied behind her, thousands of people turning out to be part of a demonstration in the city of Karachi this weekend. 

 

They were showing their support for Malala and speaking out against the Taliban and its strict policies.

 

Those include denying girls the chance to get an education, that’s something that Malala spoke out against. Pakistani officials say doctors are keeping a close watch on Malala. As of yesterday afternoon, she was unconscious and using a breathing machine, but authorities said she is making slow and steady progress. 

 

 

 

See if you can ID me. I’m an organization that was established after World War II. I currently have 27 member countries. A continent is a part of my name, and my currency is the euro. I’m the European Union. And I’m responsible for my members’ economic, social and security policies. 

 

 

 

The Nobel Committee says the European Union’s efforts to advance peace, democracy and human rights are why that organization, the European Union is this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The award was announced last Friday. It’s not the first time that an organization has won the Peace Prize instead of an individual person. The committee says the EU’s win is a message to the whole world about finding ways to solve conflicts. For more, we turn to Jonathan Mann. 

Look past all the protests in the streets of Spain and Greece. Look past all the high level talk and tangled finances. Look back to the centuries of war in Europe, a place where nowadays dozens of countries are so completely at peace that virtually no one notices. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize for 2012 to the European Union. Because born out of the ashes of World War II as a way to unify the continent and keep it from fighting again, the Nobel Committee says the European Union has worked. 

 

Over a 70 year period, Germany and France had fought three wars. Today, war between Germany and France had, is unthinkable. This shows of true well aimed efforts and while building mutual confidence, historic enemies can become close parties. 

 

The partnership now includes 27 nations, with more waiting to join. 500 million people grappling with their own national politics evolving European institutions, and it still experimental common currency mired in crisis. Everything from interest rates to austerity measures and unemployment eventually leads to back to the EU. In the streets of Spain, where the economy went from boom to bust, the EU is both credited and criticized and its Nobel Prize got a mixed reaction. 

 

All right, we are wrapping up out Hispanic heritage month coverage today with a tasty segment for you. Here is some food for thought, do you know the names of some of the things we eat and drink have Spanish ties. Like the chocolate in my hot chocolate. It’s pronounced chocolate, the word comes from n- which is a group of languages from parts of Mexico and Central America. Another tasty word with Spanish routes is tomato, the name of this fruit, yes, this is technically a fruit, comes from n-

 

In Spanish, it’s tomate. We can’t give you fruit and dessert without a main course. Tuna, like the fish, comes from the Spanish word, atun.