China has yet another tantrum, stops Ai Weiwei from leaving

You can't pick up your Nobel Prize! You can't! You can't! You can't!

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says he has been stopped from travelling abroad, in a move apparently linked to next week's Nobel Peace Prize awards in Norway.

Ai Weiwei, a fierce critic of Beijing, said he was due to travel to South Korea, but police told him his trip could "threaten national security".

The authorities have reportedly been working to prevent activists from attending the Nobel ceremony.

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Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

OH NO, it has the word "Peace" in it! Countdown to some Republican calling it anti-American in 3...2...

Update: it begins:

RedState.com is just a little caught off guard because he “did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it.”

Hotel mistakes Nobel laureate for bag lady

She was wearing a Mayan dress, the traditional attire of indigenous people in central America, and the hotel's response was also traditional: throw her out.

Staff at Cancun's five-star Hotel Coral Beach appear to have assumed this was another street vendor or beggar, so without asking questions they ordered her to leave. Except the woman was Rigoberta Menchú, the Nobel peace prizewinner, Unesco goodwill ambassador, Guatemalan presidential candidate and figurehead for indigenous rights.

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Commentators noted the irony of upmarket resorts discriminating against real Maya while trying to attract tourists with fake Mayan architecture and spectacles.