1. Ex-tennis player Elena Baltacha dies of cancer
i. Elena Baltacha, a former top-50 professional tennis player, who had been fighting liver cancer since retiring from the game, died on Sunday. She was 30.
ii. The former British No. 1 died peacefully surrounded by family and friends, the Women’s Tennis Association said on its website.
iii. Baltacha, who represented Britain at the 2012 London Olympics, was diagnosed with the illness in January, two months after retiring from tennis and only weeks after she married her long-time coach Nino Severino.
2. Ahmet Sik won UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014
i. Turkish investigative journalist Ahmet Sik won 2014 UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
ii. He received the award worth of 25000 US dollars by the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova in Paris.
iii. Ahmet Sik, 46, is a freelance journalist who worked for several Turkish newspapers such as Cumhuriyet, Radikal, Evrensel and Yeni Yuzyil between 1991 and 2011.
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