- Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Quebecois has joined Stephen Harper in resigning from his party’s leadership.
- Marlon James of Jamaica has won this year’s Man Booker Prize for his novel, ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’.
- The royal house of York is a branch of the Plantagenets.
- ‘Intifada’ translates to an uprising in English, or, literally, ‘a jumping up as a reaction to something’.
- Cassoulet is a stew of white beans and meat.
