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

Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a somewhat unexpected choice by a prize committee that has favored European authors in recent years.

The Swedish Academy, which se

Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize on Monday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has raised dreams of growing replacement tissue for people crippled by d

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, recovering from a brief illness, attended a session of the Swiss parliament on Friday hours before she was due to fly to Oslo to finally collect her 1991 No

Nobel Prize organizers have announced a cut in cash amounts to prize winners.

The Nobel Foundation blamed the global economic crisis for the move, which will see a 20 per cent cut in the prize money,

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

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

Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer won the 2011 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.

Transtroemer, 80, was honoured 'because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives

Three scientists shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for physics for the stunning discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, meaning it may one day turn to ice, the prize committee said on Tuesday.