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3 win Nobel medicine award for Hepatitis C virus discovery

05 Oct 2020

Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the...

Nobel prize cash raised to $1.1m

24 Sep 2020

The cash envelope that accompanies each Nobel prize will be increased this year from nine to 10 million kronor ($1.1 million), the Nobel Foundation said on Thursday. "The...

Nobel winners to get $110,000 raise as prize money increased

24 Sep 2020

Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000), the head of the foundation which oversees the awards said on Thursday. Prize...

Girls’ education a must for their advancement

21 Sep 2020

The statement by Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai that as many as 20 million girls may never return to school even after the global COVID-19 crisis is alarming and triggers...

Northern Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume dies

03 Aug 2020

The family of politician John Hume, who won Nobel Peace Prize for work to end violence in his native Northern Ireland, says he has died. He was 83. The...

Nobel-winning peace negotiator Ahtisaari has coronavirus

24 Mar 2020

Nobel laureate and former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari has contracted the new coronavirus, his office said on Tuesday. The 82-year-old was awarded the Peace Prize in 2008 for his...

Handke takes Nobel Literature Prize amid protest

11 Dec 2019

Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s. Handke...

Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing climate

07 Dec 2019

Three of this year's Nobel Prize laureates say addressing climate change is of great importance. Merkel says Greta Thunberg drove us to move on climate change Climate change costs...

‘Turks turn away from propaganda to novels’

01 Nov 2019

Imran Mojib, Special Correspondent The reading habit in Turkey is alive and kicking. More Turks are turning to fiction and novel simply because they do not have interest in...

US trio wins Nobel Economics Prize for fighting global poverty

14 Oct 2019

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded on Monday to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." Peebles,...

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