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Danish band Lukas Graham set for Grammy Awards with '7 Years'

Danish pop band Lukas Graham’s hit song ’7 Years’ has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, including ‘Song Of The Year’, ‘Record Of The Year’, and ‘Best Pop Duo/ Group…

Sport

Ronaldo scoops another individual award at Globe Soccer ceremony

Cristiano Ronaldo will have to make more room in his trophy cabinet after the Portugual international was named Globe Soccer player of the year.

Sport

Ronaldo wins Ballon d'Or on night Real Madrid are drawn against Napoli in Champions League last 16

Ronaldo’s Golden Gong There were no surprises for this year’s Ballon d’Or – quite literally after France Football (founders of the award)unwittingly leaked the result with images of the player holding

Focus

EuroSkills 2016: battle of young craftspeople

Young people from more than 30 countries were in the Swedish city of Gothenburg to take part in EuroSkills 2016.

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USA

Hanks, De Niro, Gates and more handed top award from Obama

Outgoing US President Barack Obama has handed out his last Medals of Freedom during a ceremony at the White House.

USA

Donald Trump lambasted at the American Music Awards

The US president-elect featured in the re-written lyrics of Green Day's controversial anti-gun violence single "Bang Bang", performed at the ceremony.

Business Series

The 2016 GPHG awards live

Cult

Justin Bieber tops MTV Europe Music Awards

Justin Bieber tops the MTV Europe Music Awards. Lady Gaga scoops two gongs, but Beyonce and Adele go home empty-handed.

USA

Meryl Streep to receive Golden Globes lifetime award

US actress Meryl Streep, regarded as one of the finest on-screen performers of her generation, will be presented with the Golden Globes lifetime achievement award, organisers said on…

France

Leila Slimani wins France's top literary Goncourt prize

The French-Moroccan writer has been awarded the top literary award in France, the Prix Goncourt, for "Chanson douce" ("Sweet song").

Europe News

Yazidi IS survivors win EU's rights prize

MEPs have decided that two Yazidi women are the winners of the EU’s annual human rights prize.

United Kingdom

'The Sellout' by Paul Beatty wins Man Booker prize

An American has won the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize for the first time.

My Europe Series

The State of the Union

From free trade to Ken Loach via the Sakharov Prize - what has been hot and what has not in Brussels this week.

Sweden

Bob Dylan is the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Musician Bob Dylan wins the Prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

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Sweden

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström win The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

The pair were awarded the prize "for their contributions to contract theory."

World News

Nadia Murad, Yazidi woman and survivor of ISIL atrocities, becomes UN Ambassador

Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman who survived trafficking and sexual abuse at the hands of ISIL, has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United…

Cinema

First Filipino win at Venice Film Festival

Filipino director Lav Diaz picks up the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for 'The Woman Who Left', while the runner-up Silver Lion is split between Andrei Konchalovsky for Holocaust drama 'Rai'

World News

Greek volunteers win 2016 Nansen Refugee Award

UN refugee agency rewards Hellenic Rescue Team and psychologist Efi Latsoudi, who helped thousands of migrants reaching Greece.

Spain

SOS Children’s Villages wins Princess of Asturias Award

SOS Children’s Villages International, an organisation dedicated to abandoned and orphaned children, has claimed the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord.