The Latest Breaking News on Prizes

Malala Yousafzai Attends Muslim Girls' Education Conference Snubbed By Taliban

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was "overwhelmed" to be back in her native Pakistan on Saturday, as the prime minister launched a global summit on girls' education in the Islamic world.

International Business Times · Jan 11, 2025

Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai To Visit Native Pakistan For Girls' Summit

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly killed by militants as a schoolgirl.

International Business Times · Jan 10, 2025

Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner

Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US

The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2025

Japan's Atomic Bomb Survivors To Accept Nobel Prize In Oslo

This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Tuesday to Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which lobbies against the weapons now resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

International Business Times · Dec 10, 2024

Nobel Peace Prize winner urges Putin to understand the destructiveness of nuclear weapons

Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan and the representative of an organization that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop making nuclear threats

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2024

‘Time is running out’: 12 Nobel laureates urge Keir Starmer to intervene in case of jailed activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2024

Japan's A-bomb Survivors: From Discrimination To A Nobel

Survivors of the US atomic bombings of Japan will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday but, after years of anti-nuclear campaigning and showing the world their scars, they still retain the painful memories of the discrimination they have faced.

International Business Times · Dec 9, 2024

The science behind winning a Nobel prize? Being a man from a wealthy family

A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2024

Funding research for economic return sounds good – but that’s not how science really works

The announcement by Science Minister Judith Collins this week that half of New Zealand’s sole fund for fundamental science will now go to research with economic benefits – with social sciences and the humanities no longer supported – came as a shock to many.

The Conversation · Dec 5, 2024

Iran Frees Nobel Winner For Three Weeks, Sparking Calls For 'Permanent' Release

Iranian authorities on Wednesday freed Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi from prison for three weeks on medical grounds, a move supporters decried as "too little too late" with the Nobel committee urging a permanent release.

International Business Times · Dec 4, 2024