31.   The Nobel awards committee, based in the building, never releases the names of candidates, although nominations often become public through other channels.

32.   The secretive awards committee does not reveal the names of candidates and says little about the selection process until a winner is announced, usually in mid-October.

33.   U.S. satirist Don DeLillo has won the Jerusalem Prize, the awards committee announced Sunday, making him the first American to win the prestigious literary award.

34.   Black holes have since become a focus of gravitation theory, astrophysics and elementary particle theory, the Wolf Prize award committee said.

35.   Several revolutionary organisations have set up their own award committees to select movies according to their religious and revolutionary merits.

36.   The award committee expressed disappointment at the Chinese boycott.