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2016 Nobel Peace Prize: contenders and potential winners

The Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced this Friday in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

Sweden

Mini machines win 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Scottish, French and Dutch-born trio Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa will share the 8m Swedish Kronor prize.

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How the world's smallest machines won the Nobel Prize for chemistry

The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world's smallest machines.

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How a bun, a bagel and a pretzel explain the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics

A trio of British-born scientists has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about strange or unusual forms of matter - and it can be explained by baking.

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Strange matter - Three British scientists win Nobel Prize for Physics

Three British scientists have won this year’s Nobel Prize for physics for their work on exotic states of matter.

Sweden

The Nobel Prize for Medicine rewards autophagy study

Japanese Biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi has won the first Nobel Prize of the season for Medicine.

USA

How did baker's yeast lead to the Nobel Prize for Medicine?

Japanese researcher Yoshinori Ohsumi has won the Nobel Prize for physiology and Medicine for discovering the process of autophagy. But what is it and why is it important for all of us?

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Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel prize in medicine

The 2016 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology has been awarded to Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi for research in the field of Autophagy.

Israel

Shimon Peres: A hawk and a dove

After a political career lasting almost 70 years, impressions of Shimon Peres remain mixed, especially in Israel… and for good reason.

Economy

Eurozone is doomed without radical reform says economist Stiglitz

As the eurozone struggles with weak growth and the threat of deflation, left-leaning economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz told Euronews the currency bloc is doomed without radical changes.

Hungary

Hungary mourns the loss of one its most prominent writers

Imre Kertesz dies at home in Budapest at the age of 86

Greece

Refugee crisis: a Nobel Peace Prize for the "Heroes of the Aegean"?

The people of the eastern Aegean islands have seen their lives change dramatically over the last 12 months. An unprecedented wave of refugees, many

World News

Greece creates more migrant registration centres

Greece is setting up two new registration centres for migrants arriving on its island of Lesbos. Its partly in response to EU criticism that

Sweden

Lavish Stockholm banquet celebrates achievements of Nobel prize winners

A lavish banquet has been held in Stockholm for the winners of this year’s Nobel prizes. The awards – in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and

Sweden

Nobel prize banquet needs to be 'fit for a king'

In Sweden, Nobel Prize winners received the awards for literature, chemistry, physics, medicine and economics, as stipulated in the will of the

World News

Nobel Peace Prize accepted by Tunisian pro-democracy group

The Nobel Peace Prize has been presented to a Tunisian pro-democracy group at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital Oslo. The National Dialogue Quartet

World

Interview: Literature Nobel winner shocked by Russian critics

All Russian writers who have won the Nobel prize have been subjected to harassment in Russia. That is the assertion of the Svetlana Alexievich from

Myanmar

Suu Kyi continues life-long fight for Myanmar democracy

Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as an icon of peaceful democratic resistance. She could only receive it in person in 2012, after

Sweden

British-American economist Angus Deaton wins Nobel Economics Prize

British-American economist Angus Deaton has won the 2015 Nobel Prize for economics. “The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award

World News

Nobel prizewinning scientist dies in poverty

After years of illness that left him nearly penniless the 2010 Nobel Chemistry prizewinner Richard Heck has died aged 84 in Manilla. Famous for his