The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to the European Union, an institution today wracked by crisis but that is credited with bringing more than half a century of peace to a continent ripped apa

The head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said Friday that the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize award was a 'great honour' for the European Union's 500 million citizens.

"It is a great honour for

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally collected her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country's full transformation to de

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Thursday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women’s rights.

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

2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee (Liberia), Tawakkul Karman (Yemen)

2010: Liu Xiaobo (C

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly Friday to three women - Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, African activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's Tawakkul Karman.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is Af

Oslo, Dec. 10: Clapping solemnly, dignitaries in Norway celebrated this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, with an empty chair. Friday’s ceremony was the first t

Oslo: Chances are slim that the Nobel Peace Prize would be presented at the December ceremony as neither its winner nor a member of his family would be able to attend, the head of the Norwegian Nobel

Oslo, Nov. 15: Several countries remain hesitant about whether to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony next month, the Nobel Institute said on Monday, after Beijing sent out warnings against honourin

Rangoon, Nov. 14: The Burma’s democracy leader, Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, who was freed after seven years of house arrest, spoke to about 5,000 people who crowded around the headquarters of her political