(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: October 8, 2010) Against the wishes of the Chinese government, the Nobel Prize Committee has awarded jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize. Last year’s winner, U.S. President Barack Obama, has called upon China to immediately release the peace activist. Chilean miners who have been trapped underground since August may soon be rescued. After calling for more security efforts to combat Taliban fighters, a provincial governor in northern Afghanistan was killed in an explosion while praying in a mosque.