NEW YORK (AP)—The killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid by Navy SEALs on his hideout in Pakistan was the top news story of 2011, followed by Japan’s earthquake/tsunami/meltdown disaster, according to The Associated Press’ annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

SEPT. 11 MASTERMIND—This April 1998 file photo shows exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in Afghanistan. Bin Laden's died May 2, during a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan. (AP Photo/File)

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP)--Zimbabwe’s prime minister said Thursday he has ended a relationship with a woman who claims they married in a traditional ceremony after she became pregnant, saying their affair turned out to be choreographed political sting.

Locadia Karimatsenga, a 39-year-old commodity broker, said she was pregnant with Morgan Tsvangirai’s child, or possibly twins, according to media reports. The 59-year-old former opposition leader had lost his wife of three decades in a 2009 car wreck.

The State Daily Herald newspaper reported Nov. 22 that Tsvangirai paid $36,000 and five cattle in traditional “bride price” at a ceremony last month at her family’s homestead north of Harare. A church wedding apparently was to take place at a later date.

By Bjoern H. Amland

OSLO, Norway (AP)— Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, calling on repressed women worldwide to rise up against male supremacy.

“My sisters, my daughters, my friends—find your voice,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said after collecting her Nobel diploma and medal at a ceremony in Oslo.

UNITED IN SISTERHOOD—Nobel Peace Prize winners Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left; Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, center; and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, right, take the stage at City Hall in in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10. (AP Photo/John McConnico)

Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically elected female president, shared the award with women’s rights campaigner Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia, and Tawakkul Karman, a female icon of the protest movement in Yemen.

by Donna Bryson

HENLEY-ON-KLIP, South Africa (AP)—Mpumi Nobiva was raised by her grandmother in a neighborhood beset by poverty and crime after her mother died of AIDS. Now one of the first to graduate from Oprah Winfrey’s school, she is headed to college in North Carolina.

FIRST CLASS—Student Mpumi Nobiva, front, attends a gathering with classmates in their last week at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy at Henley-On-Klip, South Africa, Nov. 30. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Winfrey spent $40 million to give her girls a campus with computer and science labs, a library and a wellness center. None paid tuition. The students are high-achievers, often from communities where schools are struggling to overcome the legacy of apartheid.