Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay took a playful swipe at Donald Trump on Friday after being recognised for her work advancing peace and international law.

The South African jurist and former UN high commissioner for human rights joked that she could share the honour with the US president if the applause continued.

‘If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,’ Ms Pillay said in a video posted on X by Amnesty International’s secretary general. The footage showed her receiving applause after the Nobel announcement.

The decision is likely to disappoint Mr Trump, who placed extraordinary pressure on the Norwegian Nobel Committee last year in an effort to secure the award.

Ms Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize win is expected to be viewed as a high-profile rebuke to Mr Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both men have rejected the findings of a UN commission she chaired, which concluded that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. They have also repeatedly criticised the institutions where Ms Pillay has held senior positions.

Israel condemned the decision to honour the jurist, arguing that it gave legitimacy to what it called ‘anti-Israel hatred’. It also invoked Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, saying he must be ‘applauding from hell’.

‘Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell,’ Israel’s foreign ministry said in a post on X.

Ms Pillay chaired the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, established by the UN-backed Human Rights Council.

A year ago, the commission concluded that Israel was responsible for genocide in Gaza and had acted with the specific intent of destroying Palestinians there.

It also said that Israel’s president, prime minister and former defence minister had ‘incited the commission of genocide’.

Israel, which has declined to cooperate with the commission since its creation in 2021, has strongly rejected the allegations.

‘The Nobel Prize committee has lost its moral compass,’ Israel’s prime minister’s office said on X. ‘It has awarded its highest honour to a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state.

‘Navi Pillay’s proudest achievement was to legitimise a corrupt prosecutor who turned to her fabrications against Israel hoping that by joining her bigoted lynch mob, he would beat a rape charge. Karim Khan, who was accused by his own ICC employees of raping and sexually molesting them, used Pillay’s lies to build a fake case against Israel.

‘Pillay supplied the lies. Khan weaponised them. And now the misguided members of the Nobel Committee are honouring the woman who propagated this demonisation of the Jews and this travesty of justice.’

Members of the International Criminal Court voted in July to remove Khan as chief prosecutor over alleged sexual misconduct.

He has repeatedly denied every allegation, while his lawyer said he would challenge ‘the lawfulness and fairness of the decision through all available legal mechanisms’.

Announcing Ms Pillay’s award in Oslo, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said her work ‘is a source of hope and inspiration to all those who seek to bring about a more peaceful world’.

While her work has been global in scope, criticism often has been fiercely local, notably in places like Israel and in apartheid-era South Africa as she and peers took on some of the world’s most painful and sensitive legal issues and most vulnerable populations.

Ms Pillay, 85, received the news while attending the Nuremberg Forum, a gathering to discuss international law in Nuremberg, Germany, the location of the trials of Nazi war criminals that helped lay the foundations of international law.

‘Firstly, at this venue, your applause means a great deal to me,’ she said to a standing ovation. ‘You know, you don’t want to receive an award, prize or anything unless the public agrees that you deserve this.’

And joking, she added: ‘But being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify this information.’

Winning a Nobel Peace Prize has long been something of an unfulfilled dream for Mr Trump.

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Pakistan announced it had nominated him for the prize once again this year for playing a ‘historic role in advancing peace in South Asia’.   

Ms Pillay has repeatedly rejected accusations from critics who accused her of anti-Semitism or allegedly turning a blind eye to the Hamas attacks in Israel.

In an interview with the AP last year, she recalled how she worked closely with some Jewish lawyers in the fight against apartheid in her native South Africa and was invited to Israel as the UN rights chief from 2008 to 2014.

Ms Pillay’s win brings renewed attention to Mr Trump’s ongoing feud with the ICC. 

The Trump administration already has sanctioned 13 of the ICC’s staff members, among them key prosecutors and nine judges including the court’s Japanese President Tomoko Akane.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched what he called a ‘sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court’.

In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month, Mr Trump called the court an ‘out of control institution’ and an ‘anti-American tribunal with no jurisdiction’ over the US as he urged member states to quit the ‘rogue institution immediately’.

There are fears the court as a whole could be sanctioned, a move that could seriously hamper its ability to mete out justice.

The Norwegian committee said it sought to strengthen international law at a time of conflict.

‘At a time when the number of wars and conflicts is rising, and when judges and institutions of international law are under political attack, the Nobel Committee wishes to issue a reminder that the ability to resolve conflicts without force or violence is dependent on the international rule of law,’ the committee wrote in a news release.

Ms Pillay is currently serving as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, the highest court of the UN, in the ongoing genocide case against Myanmar.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo received nominations for 287 candidates for this year’s prize, with just over a quarter of them organisations. 

Experts say the committee typically focuses on the durability of peace, the promotion of international fraternity and the quiet work of institutions that strengthen those goals.

Nominations can be made by a select group of people and organisations, including heads of state or politicians serving at a national level, university professors, directors of foreign policy institutes, past Nobel Prize recipients and members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee itself.

Four of this year’s Nobel prizes were announced this week. 

The Nobel for medicine went to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works. 

The physics award recognised a scientist’s efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos. 

The chemistry prize recognised two scientists for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs.

Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson won the literature prize Thursday for ‘bold and inventive’ works that fuse the classical and the modern and blur the boundaries of poetry and prose.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced Monday.

The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about £910,000), whether for an individual, small group of laureates or organisation.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the prize in 2025 for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman ‘who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness’.

She had not been seen in public since January of that year, when she led demonstrations against then-president Nicolas Maduro, who had been re-elected, despite widely being considered a dictator.

Machado dedicated the prize to the US president for ‘his decisive support of our cause’ and gave him her Nobel medal shortly after Maduro was ousted in January of this year. 

The gesture was largely symbolic, however, as the Nobel Committee has stated the honour itself cannot be transferred.

Lindy Klim has offered a candid account of co-parenting with her former husband, Michael Klim, saying the arrangement often feels less like shared parenting and more like a solo responsibility: “There’s no ‘co’, it’s just me.”

In an expansive interview, the 47-year-old also discussed the difficult collapse of her second marriage to Adam Ellis. Lindy said she continues to carry most of the day-to-day responsibility for the three children she shares with Michael, almost 10 years after their separation.

“We definitely do have our struggles with co-parenting, as I think a lot of people generally in the whole wide world have their ups and downs,” the socialite told the Daily Mail.

“It’s something that never runs smoothly, unfortunately. It’s just one of those things, and we’re on good terms.”

She added: “I just think we’ve got to work a little bit harder at the co-parenting side because I feel like I’m doing most of it.”

Lindy and Michael announced their split in February 2016, after spending roughly a year attempting to save their decade-long relationship. They are parents to Stella, 20, Rocco, 18, and Frankie, 15.

According to Lindy, the relentless demands of family life leave her managing much of the household workload herself, from “mountains of washing and cooking” to the daily administration that comes with raising children.

Although she stressed that she and Michael remain amicable, Lindy acknowledged that their relationship still has its “ups and downs”. The former Olympic swimmer is also dealing with ongoing health challenges.

“It’s a struggle. Michael and I are good,” she said.

“He’s going through his own health issues and everything like that.”

Michael was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, known as CIDP, in 2020. He had regularly travelled to Australia for treatment before moving permanently to the Gold Coast this year.

Despite the difficulties, Lindy said she is genuinely pleased that Michael has found happiness with his new fiancée, Michelle Owen. The couple became engaged in December 2025 after six years together.

“Yeah, she’s great. She’s lovely. I’m really happy for them,” Lindy said.

“They’ve been together for a long time and she’s a really good influence on my kids, and they all enjoy her company. So it’s nice.”

Lindy also reflected on her turbulent relationship with her second husband, Adam Ellis. She began dating the property developer in 2016, and they married two years later.

The couple separated in late 2024. Lindy subsequently left Bali without money after spending 14 years on the island, where her late father, Anak Agung Oka Rama, was part of the Royal Denpasar family.

Lindy has previously said Adam’s mental health struggles placed significant strain on their marriage and prompted her to begin taking anti-anxiety medication. She said he has since sought professional help.

‘Adam’s doing really well. He has done a lot of work on himself. He’s been sober for a year and a half I think now. I just saw him recently in Bali last week,’ she says.

‘I have full custody of Goldie and we try to visit as much as we can. That’s once or twice a year. Unfortunately, he can’t make it to Australia. 

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‘But we’re doing things to try to get their relationship back on track because I want her to know her dad and he is a wonderful man. He just happened to go through a really bad period in his life.’

Lindy says their eight-year-old daughter is attending therapy with her and Adam to help maintain her relationship with her father, whom she speaks to every Monday. 

‘Goldie’s been in therapy since we moved back to Australia. With a therapist and Adam and myself, we’re really trying to rebuild that relationship, and they do things like play Roblox together every Monday night,’ Lindy says.

‘I can hear them giggling and laughing and all that sort of stuff. It’s really nice to see them reconnect and our last trip to Bali was wonderful. 

‘He came over to the villa and swam with Goldie and we had lunch together and things like that. So it’s really nice to see them together again.

‘We all go through moments in time. I think everybody struggles at some point and with him it’s been really nice to see the work that he’s been able to do on his own, and come to terms with the things that he has to work on and take better care of himself and things like that. So it’s been really great.’

Lindy says she has also been able to rebuild her finances after going ‘super broke’ following her split from Adam and subsequent return to Australia. 

‘I’m actually really proud of myself for it because I didn’t have anything. I had to loan $20,000 from my grandmother and she was the first person I paid back,’ she recalls. 

‘I’ve moved three times. I had a fully furnished house for five months that I paid for. Then I moved to a three-bedroom apartment and now I’ve rented a four-bedroom house.

‘I’ve managed to build everything back up and get furniture and a car and all those things. As a single mum with four kids, working full-time, I’m actually really proud of myself that I’ve been able to do it.’

Lindy says she got support from ‘a really good group of girlfriends’ who call themselves the ‘Single Mums of Stonnington’. 

‘Generally the people that have gone through the same kind of things as you have are the ones that can really truly understand,’ she says.

‘I do have other friends as well that were able to loan me a car or help me out with bedding and all of that sort of stuff. I had a really good network of friends.’ 

These days, Lindy is happily in love with her new partner, medical tech businessman Paul Mullert.

They were introduced by Paul’s sister and went public with their relationship at LIV Golf Adelaide in February last year.

‘Things are great, he’s wonderful. I feel very blessed to have met him. He’s just a really good person, a really nice person,’ Lindy says. 

She then joked: ‘We do look a little bit like brother and sister, which is very strange. But yeah, he’s amazing.’

Lindy will be opening up in yet another candid conversation next month as she attends the Hot B***h Biz Lunch, which is an intimate gathering for female business owners and entrepreneurs. 

The event will take place on Friday, November 27 at Kiki’s Tavern in South Yarra. 

‘I’m just really looking forward to it. I love chatting,’ Lindy says. 

A South Carolina personal trainer who disappeared after leaving a gym died from complications linked to underlying heart problems, officials said.

Elena Moore, 39, was last seen at a Planet Fitness in Lexington in June of this year. Her body was discovered in a wooded area several days later.

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said at a news conference Friday that Moore’s death resulted from complications of cardiac dysrhythmias.

Fisher said Moore also suffered premature ventricular contractions and had a history of heart problems and mental health issues.

On June 5, Moore was involuntarily committed to a treatment facility while experiencing a mental health crisis, Fisher said.

Fisher declined to identify the facility, but said Moore was not given her usual heart medication during the days she spent there.

Moore was released on June 11, according to Fisher. Officials contacted her husband, Brannon Slice, who offered to pick her up.

Instead, health officials placed Moore in a taxi and told Slice she would be taken to her home. The taxi driver ultimately took her to a CVS Pharmacy.

Once inside the pharmacy, Moore told an employee that the taxi driver was stalking her, prompting the store manager to call 911, Fisher said.

Fisher said Moore then left the CVS on foot carrying four bottles of wine. She later entered a Planet Fitness before being seen walking toward a wooded area.

Toxicology testing detected no substances other than alcohol, and investigators found no evidence of trauma on Moore’s body, Fisher said.

“Her cause of death is listed as complications of dysrhythmias with premature ventricular contractions,” Fisher said.

The findings showed that Moore had previously experienced shortness of breath during exertion and heart palpitations. Her medical history also included anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, excessive alcohol use and fatty liver disease.

Fisher said Moore’s case received widespread attention partly because she was a bodybuilder who was married to a former inmate.

“We deal with cases such as Elena’s on a regular basis and nobody puts it all over Facebook,” Fisher said.

“Nobody is interested. There are cases of mental illness that we’re dealing with right now and nobody cares,” she added.

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Fisher said Moore had been in a severe mental health crisis that many people failed to recognize. “The only person who really tried to help this girl is her husband. That’s it,” she said.

On June 4, a week before her disappearance, Moore was caught by a doorbell camera about half a mile from the gym, appearing confused as she tried to enter a stranger’s home. 

The footage, first obtained by NewsNation, showed a DoorDash driver delivering food at the door before Moore, wearing black clothes and oversized sunglasses, who picked up the order and handed it to the couple living there.

Moore can be seen briefly interacting with a DoorDash driver, then appears to be muttering to herself as the door opens and the order is collected.

Moore briefly seemed to try to walk into the home before the door was shut in her face, leaving her outside in the hallway.

Resident John Moore, of no relation, said the missing woman ‘seemed really confused and disoriented about where she was or whatever she was doing.’

Sarah Burleson, John Moore’s wife, told NewsNation that she later saw the missing woman going through a neighbor’s packages.

Moore allegedly told Burleson that she did not know what she was doing.

The personal trainer was an active social media user, but abruptly stopped posting around a month before she disappeared.  

On a second Instagram account, however, Moore shared emotional messages, including a recount of how someone let her ‘destroy’ herself to keep ‘us’ alive,’ messages seen by TMZ revealed.

In the post, Moore said that she felt ‘exhausting hatred’ from the ordeal and added: ‘I never wanted to look at someone I once loved with disgust and resentment.’

The heart-wrenching message detailed how a person ‘watched me love you with everything I had,’ only to ‘hurt me anyway.’

‘…you turned love into something painful, something heavy, something I now have to heal from every single day,’ the message continued.

‘I hate what you did to me. I hate the memories that won’t leave me alone, and more than anything, I hate that a part of me still mourns the person I thought you were.’

A Virginia man accused of killing his wife allegedly carried a list of intended victims that included her name, according to court documents.

Roger Bradford, 60, was reportedly carrying the handwritten “hit list” in his vehicle when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.

Bradford had fled the $1.4 million home in Aldie where his wife, Lisa Bradford, 54, was found dead on September 22, records state.

A detective said in an affidavit supporting a search warrant that the list appeared in a journal and named several people Bradford allegedly planned to kill. The sheriff’s office said it included the words, “Lisa was to be killed on Tuesday.”

Bradford was extradited to Virginia earlier this week and appeared virtually before a court on Wednesday.

He was arraigned on charges including second-degree murder and a firearms offense related to his wife’s death.

Prosecutors have cited evidence they say indicates Bradford planned Lisa’s killing in advance.

The Commonwealth’s Attorney said there was “clear evidence of premeditation.”

On the morning Lisa died, Bradford drove a rented Kia Sportage to a storage facility he shared with his brother, then stopped at Home Depot.

Surveillance footage allegedly showed him buying 36-inch nylon zip ties before driving to the family’s home on Quimby Oaks Place. He arrived at about 9 a.m., and detectives believe the shooting occurred soon afterward.

Deputies found Lisa face down in an upstairs bedroom with her hands bound behind her back, according to court records. Several bullet casings were scattered across the room, but the handgun investigators believe was used in the killing has not been found.

Around noon, Bradford’s sister contacted the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in a panic after allegedly receiving a call from him. Investigators said Bradford told her he had “shot and killed his wife.”

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He allegedly added that he planned to take his own life and asked his sister to pick up his minor daughter so she would not return to the house and find her mother.

Bradford instead fled in the rental vehicle. Authorities tracked him through Maryland and into Pennsylvania, where state police arrested him in Bedford County. He is being held at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center.

The couple’s marriage had reportedly been troubled, and Bradford had previously acknowledged that the relationship was under severe strain.

He spent 20 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud in a construction-related kickback scheme. In a court declaration filed earlier this year, Bradford wrote that the conviction had ruined his finances, harmed his mental health and contributed to the breakdown of his marriage.

‘My marriage with my wife Lisa is now headed to divorce,’ Bradford wrote, describing Lisa as an ‘incredible woman’ and saying the prospect of losing their marriage was ‘too much to bear.’

Friends, however, said they had seen little sign of the marital turmoil plaguing the realtor.

Lisa was known for forming close relationships with clients and colleagues, while friends described her as a devoted mother who adored her three children.

‘She was always smiling,’ friend Christy Stuart previously told Fox 5. ‘No matter every time I saw her, she would greet me with a smile and a hug.’

At a vigil held after her death, Lisa’s friend Jerien Okoh-Tisch played the cello in her memory. Lisa had once talked about learning the instrument herself and hoped one day to play Ave Maria.

‘She was such a light in our lives and such a light in this world,’ Okoh-Tisch said. ‘She loved her children so much.’

Now her three children are left to grapple with the loss of their mother and the horrifying allegations engulfing her brutal death.

Bradford indicated during Wednesday’s hearing that he wanted to represent himself, and he also asked for a bond hearing scheduled for October 28 to be moved one week earlier because the original date would have fallen on Lisa’s birthday.