brussels bureau 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. 27/10/2016
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. 26/10/2016
state of the union 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. 14/10/2016
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." 13/10/2016
world news What do you know about the Nobel Prize for literature? Alfred Nobel had broad cultural interests. Literature was the fourth prize area he mentioned in his will. The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded 13/10/2016
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." 10/10/2016
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… 18/09/2016
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' 12/09/2016
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. 07/09/2016
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. 06/09/2016
Cult Beyonce and Rihanna get the gongs at the MTV Music Video Awards Beyonce gathered the gongs at the MTV Video Music awards, including the top trinket, video of the year. 29/08/2016
Africanews Full Champions League draw results, Ronaldo is 2016 UEFA best player It's time for Europe's biggest football competition, the UEFA Champions League. 32 European teams have been drawn on Thursday at the UEFA headquarters in Monaco. 25/08/2016
world news Vote: Who is the EU's most innovative technology enterprise? The search is on to find which teams within the European Union are producing the most groundbreaking research project or product. 04/08/2016
Africanews 21 Africans receive Queen Elizabeth's 'Young Leaders Award' A total of 21 young Africans were awarded by Queen Elizabeth II as part of the second edition of the Queen's ''Young Leaders Award.'' 24/06/2016
Spain UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement win Asturias Award The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement have won the International Cooperation division of the 2016 Princess of Asturias Awards. 22/06/2016
Italy Italian restaurant is the "best in the world" Run by chef Massimo Bottura, the Osteria Francescana can be found in the Italian city of Modena. 15/06/2016
Sci-tech The brightest minds shine at the European Inventor Awards Euronews reporter Chris Cummins travels to sunny Portugal and introduces us to some of Europe's brightest minds: ''It's fitting that here in Lisbon, the final resting place of the great Portuguese exp 14/06/2016
Cult Tony Awards: stars pay homage to Orlando victims At the Tony Awards in Los Angeles, organisers dedicated the ceremony to the victims of the Orlando shooting. 13/06/2016
hi-tech European Inventor Award 2016 On June 9, 2016 the prestigious innovation prize, the European Inventor Award, recognised inventors whose creativity and scientific skills are 08/06/2016
Spain War photographer James Nachtwey wins Asturias award The American photographer James Nachtwey has won this year’s prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanitites. 19/05/2016
Spain Spanish actress Nuria Espert wins Asturias Award for the Arts The first of the annual Princess of Asturias Awards has been won by the Spanish actress, theatre director and stage designer Nuria Espert. The 11/05/2016
Cinema Cannes 2016: high security as high society descends on French Riviera The final preparations are being put in place to arguably the most important film festival of them all, the 69th edition of Cannes, which kicks off this… 11/05/2016
corporate Budapest hosts Bocuse d'Or European competition as city's culinary fame grows Hungary's capital, Budapest - a rising star in the culinary world - is proving that by this year hosting the European heat of the Bocuse d'Or world cooking contest. 10/05/2016
brussels bureau Pope Francis tells EU leaders "being a migrant is not a crime" Pope Francis has been awarded the Charlemagne Prize, given for outstanding services towards European unification. At a ceremony in the Vatican 06/05/2016
Vatican 'I dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime' - Pope receives Charlemagne Prize Pope Francis has called for Europe to remember its founding values, as he received the Charlemagne Prize for his contribution to European unity. 06/05/2016
le mag Malaysian and Kenyan artists win prestigious cartooning prize Kenyan and Malaysian cartoonists Gado and Zunar have been awarded the 2016 Cartooning for Peace Prize. The accolade, which rewards cartoonists for 05/05/2016
