Dubai: Burj Khalifa Receives Nobel Prize!

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa thanked the World Food Programme for receiving the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. In keeping with the legendary landmark’s unstinting appreciation of others’ contributions, the world’s tallest building blinked a note of congratulations to the WFP.

Established in 1961, the UN organisation, the largest humanitarian group battling hunger, feeds tens of millions of people each year — 97 million in 2019 — across all continents.

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist, inventor and manufacturer of armaments (military arms and equipment), along with prizes in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology and medicine, and literature.

Since March 1901, it has been awarded annually (with few exceptions) to those who have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.