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Sky News and ITV1 reported that US President Donald Trump criticised the Nobel committee after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, named by ITV1 as Navi Pillai and described by Sky News as a South African born jurist and former UN human rights chief. Sky News said Trump insisted he should have received the prize and, speaking at a rally in New York, called the committee crooked and said the award had gone to a liberal person at the United Nations whom he had not heard of. ITV1 reported that Trump criticised Norway's Nobel committee for again failing to give him the prize, said he had never heard of winner Navi Pillai, and claimed he should have been given eight prizes for stopping eight wars. ITV1 also carried his remarks calling the decision a stain on Norway and saying the prize had been discredited by what he described as radical ideologues.

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Tuesday 6 October 2026

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Francis Hudson was awarded science's top honour for his work at the South Pole's Ice Cube Observatory, involving decades hunting ghost particles in Antarctic ice and being credited with paving the way for a new kind of astronomy.
Only on one channel
Francis Halzen conceived the IceCube Observatory, which uses a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice with detectors to detect faint flashes of light from neutrino interactions.	Not reported by Channel 5
High-energy neutrinos are subatomic particles formed during the birth and death of stars and galaxies.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC One

Friday 9 October 2026

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Widely reported · 4 or more of 5 channels
Navi Pillay was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.			Not reported by BBC One
The Nobel committee cited her role in prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.		Reported by BBC News		Not reported by Channel 4
Pillay served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.	Reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One		Reported by Sky News
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Navi Pillay currently sits as a judge on the International Court of Justice in the Myanmar genocide case.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4
Pillay was born into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, and became a lawyer and legal pioneer.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Reported by Sky News
Pillay defended Nelson Mandela and other opponents of apartheid.	Reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Reported by Sky News
Pillay served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court, and Channel 4 reported she was president of the Rwanda tribunal in the late 1990s.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One		Reported by Sky News
Pillay chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, which concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Netanyahu incited it; Israel rejected the findings.	Not reported by Channel 5		Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Reported by Sky News
Norwegian Nobel Committee chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes said international law and its institutions are under pressure and attack.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Reported by Sky News
The committee chair said a Nobel medal could not transfer the prize, which remained with Maria Corina Machado, last year's winner and a Venezuelan opposition leader.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Reported by Sky News
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The committee chair declined to comment on whether President Trump was nominated or under consideration for the prize, saying nominations are never discussed.	Not reported by Channel 5		Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Not reported by Sky News
The committee chair said ICC judges are currently under US sanctions.	Not reported by Channel 5	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Not reported by Sky News
The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded 125 years ago.	Not reported by Channel 5	Not reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Reported by Sky News
A questioner noted there were 376 nominations in 2016 and more than 100 fewer this year; the committee chair said the lower number did not indicate the prize was losing relevance.	Not reported by Channel 5	Not reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Reported by Sky News
The committee chair said they had not been able to reach Pillay as far as he knew.	Not reported by Channel 5	Not reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One	Not reported by Channel 4	Reported by Sky News
Israel's Prime Minister criticised the Nobel Committee and the award recipient, saying the committee had lost its moral compass and honoured a person who spread blood libels against Israel.	Not reported by Channel 5	Not reported by BBC News		Not reported by Channel 4	Not reported by Sky News
The US announced sanctions against the International Criminal Court, where Pillay had previously served as a judge.	Not reported by Channel 5	Not reported by BBC News		Not reported by Channel 4	Not reported by Sky News

Saturday 10 October 2026

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Reported by all 2 channels
Navi Pillay, a South African jurist and former UN human rights chief, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting international law.	Reported by ITV
At a New York rally, Donald Trump criticised the Nobel committee and said the United States should have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Donald Trump said he had never heard of Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay.		Reported by Sky News

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