Bob Dylan accepts Nobel Prize

STOLKHOLM, NEW YORK: American singersongwriter Bob Dylan has finally acknowledged his Nobel Prize in Literature and says he accepts it, media reports said.

According to a statement by the Nobel Foundation, Dylan had called Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy and accepted the award.

“The news about the No- bel Prize left me speechless. I appreciate the honour so much,” BBC news quoted Dylan as saying.

The foundation said that it was up to him whether to attend the prize-giving ceremony later this year or not.

The notoriously mediashy Dylan had not made any comment, despite repeated attempts by the Swedish Academy.

“We have stopped trying — we said everything we needed to his manager and friend ... but we haven’t heard anything back,” the Swedish Academy administrative director Odd Zschiedrich said on Tuesday. Hillary Clinton thought she had the White House race all sewn up with rival Donald Trump still struggling to recover from his “Pussy Gate” trash talk about groping women.

Then came the October surprise everyone was waiting for with FBI reopening its probe of the Democratic nominee’s use of a private email server as America’s top diplomat just 11 days before the 8 November poll.

The probe was prompted by emails found on a computer jointly used by her desi “second daughter” as top Clinton aide Huma Abedin is often called, and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner embroiled in a sexting scandal with a minor.

After a second sexting incident, Abedin, daughter of an Indian father and a Pakistani mother, had announced in August that she was separating from Weiner whom she married in 2010, with former president Bill Clinton officiating.

A fuming Clinton took issue with FBI director James Comey, who had found her “extremely careless” in handling classified emails back in July but not found enough evidence to prosecute her, for announcing the renewed probe. “We are calling the FBI to release all the information that it has,” she told a three minute press conference. “Let’s get it out.”

But a reenergised Trump cheered calling the FBI bombshell “bigger than Watergate.” The “system might not be as rigged as I thought!” he told supporters at a New Hampshire rally hoping “perhaps, finally, justice will be done.”

Out campaigning for Clin-