The UN's nuclear watchdog and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei, have taken over as a bookmaker's favourite to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, 60 years after the US atom bombing of Hiroshima.
The 1995 and 1985 prizes went to ban-the-bomb campaigners and many experts reckon that the secretive five-member Nobel committee will also commemorate the 1945 bombing when it announces its choice from 199 candidates in Oslo at 0900 GMT.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and ElBaradei, its Egyptian director general, became 3-1 favourites on the Web site of Australian bookmaker Centrebet.
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