The Latest Breaking News on Prizes

Sir Arthur Lewis became the London School of Economics’s first Black academic in 1938, and now has a building named in his honour

Other lives: Warwick University economics professor and World Bank development economist

Annie Ernaux, the 2022 Nobel literature laureate, has backed calls for a thorough investigation after four female students said they were sexually assaulted by police in the western city of Nantes following a protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply contentious pension reform.

Other lives: Sociology professor who studied labour relations and trade unions in post-Soviet Russia

Professor Christine Holt shares the Brain Prize with two other neuroscientists.

Caffarelli, 74, takes top trophy for work on partial differential equations, the first winner from South America

After Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, shaking world markets, Nobel economics prize winner Joseph Stiglitz says US authorities "did the right thing" by providing federal money to protect deposits. But the economist also says the financial system needs a rethink to properly bring it into the digital era.

Other lives: Research scientist whose expertise was in theoretical surface chemistry

Words of praise for prime minister Narendra Modi by the Nobel Prize Committee deputy leader have been widely reported as his acknowledgement that the Indian prime minister was the “biggest contender for Nobel Peace Prize”.

Nobel Peace Prize-winning Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi on Wednesday urged the EU to maintain pressure on the authorities in Tehran over human rights violations. "Subordinate aid to Iran, contracts with Iran, and treaties with Iran to respecting international norms, otherwise the money will not benefit the Iranian people at all,"…

Mexico is a year away from electing its next head of state and the potential candidate getting the most attention is an environmental scientist who could become the first female leader of Latin America’s second-largest economy