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US auction theory pioneers win Nobel economics prize

US academics Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the 2020 Nobel Economics on Monday for work on auctions hailed as benefiting buyers and sellers around the world

Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peacemaking efforts with Eritrea.

Maryse Conde wins alternative literature prize in absence of Nobel

STOCKHOLM: Maryse Conde from the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature, created after the Swedish Academy postponed...

Trio wins chemistry Nobel for work on antibody drugs and detergents

Two Americans and a Briton won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for harnessing the power of evolution to produce novel proteins used in everything from environmentally friendly detergents and biofuels to cancer drugs.

Lazer pioneers win Nobel Physics Prize

Three scientists won the Nobel Physics Prize for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery and in industry.

Kurdish refugee wins ‘Nobel of mathematics’ Fields medal

Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University math professor Caucher Birkar was among four winners of the prestigious Fields prize, dubbed the Nobel for mathematics.

Swedish intellectuals form new literature prize in Nobel protest

More than 100 Swedish intellectuals have joined forces to form a new prize-giving body in protest as this year's Nobel Literature Prize is postponed.

No Nobel Literature Prize after #MeToo turmoil

For the first time in almost 70 years there will be no Nobel Literature Prize this year, after the Swedish Academy that selects the laureate failed to contain a deep crisis stemming from the anti-sexual harassment #MeToo campaign.

Hiroshima survivor to accept Nobel Peace Prize for nuclear watchdog

OTTAWA: Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old and standing only a mile away from ground zero when the United States dropped an atomic bomb...

War and the prize: how some Nobel laureates turn away from peace

OSLO: Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest in a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates to disappoint many of those...

Bob Dylan to perform in Sweden in April after Nobel no-show

Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will perform in Sweden in April, offering the singer a chance to give the lecture that is a requirement...

Science won’t stop until it beats AIDS, says HIV pioneer

More than 30 years after she identified one of the most pernicious viruses to infect humankind, Francoise Barre Sinoussi, who shared a Nobel prize for discovering HIV, is hanging up her lab coat and retiring.

Nobel Peace committee demotes controversial head

OSLO: Norway's Nobel Peace Prize committee on Tuesday demoted its controversial chairman Thorbjoern Jagland in a move unprecedented in the long history of the award.

Nobel winner tells US to throw books not bombs at Islamic State

ROME: The US-led coalition of countries involved in airstrikes against Islamic State will never bomb the jihadist group out of existence, a Nobel peace prize winner warned Friday.

Malala receives Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai became the youngest ever Nobel laureate Wednesday when she received the Peace Prize in Oslo, sharing it with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi.

Malala honoured with US Liberty Medal

PHILADELPHIA: Pakistani nobel laureate Malala Yousufzai was recently rewarded the United States Liberty Award for her struggle for female literacy in the world, ARY News reports on Wednesday.

Despite Nobel win, many Pakistanis still hate Malala

ISLAMABAD: Malala Yousafzai may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but she remains an object of hate for many Pakistanis who view her as a Western agent on a mission to shame her country.

France’s Jean Tirole wins Nobel Economics Prize

STOCKHOLM: French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday, for his analysis of big companies, market power and regulation, the Royal Academy of Sciences said.

Malala invites PM Nawaz, Modi to Nobel ceremony

OSLO: Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, who became the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, made a high-level peacemaking move after sharing the award with India's Kailash Satyarthi for championing children's rights.

Full list of Nobel Peace Prize winners

OSLO: Noble Peace Prize, a prestigious award being awarded since 1901 to those who have done exceptional or best work for promotion of peace or fraternity between nations, has many noted figures being its recipients.

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