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Nobel Prize winning activist Malala gets married

Nobel Prize winning activist Malala gets married

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, got married on Tuesday in a small ceremony in Birmingham, central England, she ...

Trio win Nobel Economics Prize for 'natural experiments'

Trio win Nobel Economics Prize for 'natural experiments'

Canadian David Card, Israeli-American Joshua Angrist and Dutch-American Guido Imbens on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for insights into the labour market and "natural experiments"

Filipino journalist and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa

Philippine Nobel winner Ressa calls Facebook 'biased against facts'

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa used her new prominence to criticise Facebook as a threat to democracy, saying the social media giant fails to protect against the spread of hate and ...

In this file photo taken on 24 June 2021 secretary-general of the United Nations Antonio Guterres addresses media representatives as he arrives on the first day of a European Union (EU) summit at The European Council Building in Brussels.

UN chief urges global effort to protect press after Nobel wins

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Friday urged a global effort to protect a free press as he and the United States separately congratulated embattled journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov ...

Maria Ressa, journalist and CEO of the Rappler news website

Philippines' Nobel Prize winner Ressa says 'nothing is possible without facts'

Veteran Philippine journalist Maria Ressa said on Friday that her Nobel Peace Prize win shows that "nothing is possible without facts", as she referred to the links between democracy and freedom of ...

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov,

Journalists win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Philippines journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace Laureate, arrives for a service at St. GeorgeÕs Cathedral to celebrate his 90th birthday, in Cape Town, on 7 October 2021

Full list of Nobel Peace Prize winners

Here is the full list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901, when the prize was first awarded

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Duo wins Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on catalysts

Duo wins Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on catalysts

Germany's Benjamin List and David MacMillan of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction, the jury said

Nobel Physics Prize to two climate experts and Italian theorist

Nobel Physics Prize to two climate experts and Italian theorist

Syukuro Manabe of the US and Japan, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy, on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for climate models and the understanding of physical systems, the ...

screen displaying the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine David Julius (L) and Ardem Patapoutian, during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on 4 October, 2021

US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian win Nobel Medicine Prize

US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch, the jury said

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva listens during an event at the World Bank on 10 February 2020, in Washington, DC.

IMF chief denies altering World Bank report to appease China

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday disputed an independent investigation which found that in her previous job at the World Bank, she pressed staff to alter a report to avoid angering China.

A group of women hold torches as they protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar on 14 July 2021

Myanmar democracy movement moves out of jailed Suu Kyi’s shadow

Suu Kyi has largely disappeared from view, seen only in grainy state media photos from the bare courtroom hosting her trial and relying on her lawyers to relay messages to the outside world

Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus.

Make vaccines patent-free to ensure equality: Prof Yunus

Nobel laureate professor Muhammad Yunus has called for ensuring vaccine equality around the world noting that all people need to be safe breaking the wall of profit

Shrimp farm

Armed men seize shrimp farm of foundation set up by Nobel Laureate Yunus

The miscreants tied up 10 to 15 officials and employees of the farm, beat up and drove them away. The farm is run by Grameen Fisheries and Livestock foundation of Mohammad Yunus

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