Nobel Prize

World Bank names Nobel laureate Michael Kremer as next chief economist

FILE PHOTO: Michael Kremer, Economic Sciences Laureate, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, speaks during his Nobel lecture \"Experimentation, Innovation and Economics\" at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden December 8, 2019. TT News Agency/Christine Olsson via REUTERS/ File Photo

Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official

Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi meeting Arnaude de Baecque, resident representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Myanmar, in Naypyitaw on Aug 3.

US says will not obstruct Venezuela opposition leader’s return

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has not returned to Venezuela since December 2025.

US officials frustrated by Nobel laureate Machado’s bid to return to Venezuela amid quake disaster

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during a press conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 16, 2026. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

Iran Nobel winner Mohammadi discharged from hospital

Iranian rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi was discharged from hospital in the wake of her release on bail.

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.

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.

Stockholm to get new waterfront Nobel Center

Ig Nobel prizes moving to Europe because US is ‘unsafe’ to visit

Previous winners of the Ig Nobel Prize include researchers who determined that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps.

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