BBC news hello, I'm Garif Barlow. A new report says about fifteen thousand people a day have been forced to flee their homes in African conflict and disaster zones. Figures show that more than twelve million people in Africa are internally displaced. Nearly four million left their homes last year. Britain's most prestigious contemporary art award, the Turner Prize have been won by an art professor who was born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid. Judges praised her work which explored the African diaspora and black creativity. Professor Himid is the first black woman and the oldest person to win the award.

Scientists at Oxford University have carried out the first radiocarbon dating. A fragment of bone claimed to be from St Nicholas believed to be the inspiration for Father Christmas. The findings revealed that the bone was 1700 years old, matching the era of the saint's life. Sean Coughlan has the story. Relics of St Nicholas has been venerated in church since at least 11 century and its popularity meant that hundreds of bones, a claim to have come from the Christmas saint. This fragment of pelvis tested at the University of Oxford have come from a church in France. And professor Tom Higham said many such relics turned out to be not needy as old as it claimed. The researches were taken aback when test results showed that the bone really was from the era of St Nicholas almost 1700 years ago. Although there is no definite proof, professor Higham said it was possible for the remains could indeed be those of St Nicholas himself.

France's biggest rock star Johnny Hallyday has died at the age of 74 after a battle with lung cancer. In a career spanning five decades, he sold more than a hundred million records and headlined fifty major tours. Influenced by the music of Elvis Presley, Johnny Hallyday began his career in 1960, singing rock and roll in French. Known as the French Elvis, he was hugely popular in the francophone world, but less well known elsewhere. BBC news.