Her image of being bent backward and receiving a passionate kiss from a sailor in Times Square, New York on Aug. 15, 1945 after the surrender of Japan, formally ending World War II, has become one of the most iconic pictures of the 20th Century.

Now, 90-years-old Edith Shain of Los Angeles, who claims to be the young woman kissed by the sailor and captured in photo by Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, will be honored by the Navy on Veterans Day on Tuesday.

Roman Catholic nuns Sister Ardeth Platte, 72, and Sister Carol Gilbert, 60, who spent over four decades promoting peace and protesting against nuclear weapons, discovered they had been listed as terrorists.

They found out about being wrongly listed as suspected terrorists in a federal database in 2005-2006 when they received letters from the Maryland State Police after they returned from a two-week trip.

As the world eagerly waits for the naming of the Nobel Peace prize winner on Friday, a lawyer who authored a book on the Nobel Peace Prize awards questioned the selection of some past winners.

Included in his list of undeserving awardees, based on the criteria set by Alfred Nobel in his 1895 last will and testament, was 2007 Peace Prize winner former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Mother Theresa of Calcutta.

The United Nations on Tuesday launched a campaign urging mobile phone users in the U.S. to send text messages of peace to promote the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21.

The 160-character text message should start with the word "peace" and must be sent to 69866. The text messages will be gathered, posted in the website www.peaceday2008.org and delivered to world leaders attending the UN General Assembly on Sept. 23.

The University of Toronto will begin offering starting fall master's and doctorate programs covering a wide range of sex-related topics from literary to public health.

The university will be the first in Canada to offer graduate courses on the subject. Other Canadian educational institutions like Queen's University, McGill University, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, York University and University of British Columbia already offer undergraduate degree in sexuality studies, but most of their programs focus on issues of sexual orientation.