Architecture's Nobel Prize

Wang Shu, an architect in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, received this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, becoming the first Chinese to win the prestigious award, dubbed architecture's Nobel Prize. Wang heads the Architecture Department of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and has lectured at Harvard.

Uganda Judge

Julia Sebutinde from Uganda has become the first African woman to serve as a judge at the UN's International Court of Justice in The Hague. Sebutinde has worked for 32 years in the legal and judicial field and took up her seat in March 2012.