Nobel Peace Prizes will be presented later today – Health concerns for an anti-apartheid legend – A poll shows startling opinions from Palestinians, and it does not bode well for peace in the Middle East – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The head of the UN World Health Organization Dr. Margaret Chan says the Ebola virus is “running ahead” of efforts to contain it.  With more than 6,331 people dead in the West African Ebola Outbreak, Chan says the pace of new infections is “less severe” than in September, but “we are still seeing a large number of cases”. 

Malala Yousafzai says she would like one day to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.  The teenage education campaigner spoke about her political ambitions before Wednesday’s ceremony in Oslo in which she will be presented with her Nobel Peace Prize, which was jointly awarded the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child rights campaigner.  Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for going to school.  She survived and turned her education advocacy into a worldwide movement.

South African retired Bishop Desmond Tutu – a Nobel Peace Prize laureate himself – has canceled travel plans for the rest of the year so he can undergo new treatment for prostate cancer.  83-year old Tutu has been managing it for the past 15 years, and is starting “a new course of medication”. 

At least ten people were killed in a bus bombing in the predominantly Christian town of Maramag in the southern Philippines.  41 people are recovering from various injuries.  Similar attacks in the area were blamed on by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, a Muslim terrorist group, and is suspected in this attack.

A German court has ruled there is not enough evidence to try a 89-year old former nazi guard with the massacre of civilians in France.  The defendant, identified as “Werner C”, admitted he was in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane when 742 people were murdered on 10 June 1944.  But he denied direct involvement in the atrocity.  Some 450 women and children were herded into a church, into which the nazis threw hand grenades.  The men were rounded up into a barn, which was set on fire. 

This is why the Middle East can’t have nice things.  Hamas would win if the Palestinian presidential election were held today.  That’s according to a new poll that found that Palestinians approve of a recent spate of attacks against Israel, and support a new uprising.  Meanwhile, Amnesty International says Israel committed war crimes with the “deliberate and direct” destruction of four civilian high-rise buildings in the August war in Gaza.