Nobel laureates

Americans Robert Hall and Michael Woodford win Nobel economics prize for work on stabilisation

American academics Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel economics prize.

Nobel peace laureate Pillay calls US sanctions on ICC ‘unacceptable’

South African lawyer Navi Pillay lamented that there are hundreds of staff who feel like they are under threat.

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.

Trump says he deserves Nobel Peace Prize but has doubts he will get it

Since his return to the White House in 2025, US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he deserves the prestigious award.

Scientists Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel win 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine

Nobel Committee secretary-general Thomas Perlmann announcing Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel as winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Venezuela opposition leader Machado says she won’t take part in US-backed talks

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said the opposition would “not participate” in the “design, development and operation” of the talks.

Iran Nobel winner Mohammadi ‘between life and death’: Supporters

Iranian peace activist Narges Mohammadi at her home in Tehran on September 4, 2001. She is fighting for her life after being hospitalised under guard with a heart condition.

Jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi needs urgent heart treatment in Tehran, says brother

FILE PHOTO: A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023. NTB/Javad Parsa via REUTERS/File Photo

Nobel laureate Mohammadi in Iran hospital after ‘cardiac crisis’, foundation says

FILE PHOTO: A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023. NTB/Javad Parsa via REUTERS/File Photo

287 nominated for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize; Trump likely among them

Of the nominations in 2026, 208 are individuals are 79 are organisations.

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