Awards and prizes

British singer Raye wins Mercury Prize for second album This Music May Contain Hope

British singer-songwriter Raye has enjoyed soaring success in recent years, including bagging a Grammy in January.

Targeted by Trump, ICC wins Europe’s top human rights prize

US President Donald Trump sanctioned ICC officials after the tribunal announced an arrest warrant against Israel’s Benjamin Netanhyahu.

New literary prize launched for books ‘written with AI’

The “Prix Pascal” initiative will reward works co-written with artificial intelligence.

Mnet Asian Music Awards to feature 360-degree stage, largest-ever single-city artiste line-up

The ceremony will feature K-pop stages spanning newly emerged acts and veteran acts, including BigBang.

NUS president Tan Eng Chye to step down end-2027, search for successor begins

NUS president Tan Eng Chye with students and colleagues at Supernova 2026.

Failure points ‘towards the solution’: Students win HTX award for pushing past setbacks in research

Aneesh Bondugula (left) developed an AI project to predict how patients will respond to cancer immunotherapy, while Shavonne Tok explored the use of discarded chicken bones to remove dye pollutants from water.

Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte, who played Walter White’s son, dies, aged 34

A teenage Mitte first appeared in the acclaimed “Breaking Bad” in 2008 as the son of chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White.

ST’s senior health correspondent wins first media excellence award for championing mental health

The Straits Times’ senior health correspondent Joyce Teo (centre) received the Media Excellence in Mental Health Awareness Award from Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Finance and Manpower Shawn Huang (left) and Fatimah Lateef (right), President of Silver Ribbon (Singapore).

Berita Harian launches bursary, mentorship programme for students

Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Zaqy Mohamad (fourth from right) with (from left) Nur Sarah Binte Yusman, sister of a recipient not present, AMP Singapore executive director Mohksin Rashid, Ustaz Fathurrahman Dawoed, Syahmi Akmal Hakim Bin Mohamad Ismail, Ahmad Mussodaq Ahmad Mazhar, Haifa binte Norhaizal and BH Editor, Nazry Mokhta.

Nobel Peace Prize bets for Russian dissident’s widow surge on Polymarket

Odds that Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, will win the Nobel Peace Prize went as high as 65.5% on the Polymarket betting platform.

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