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3 win Nobel medicine award for Hepatitis C virus discovery

05 Oct 2020

Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis...

Nobel prize cash raised to $1.1m

24 Sep 2020

The cash envelope that accompanies each Nobel prize will be increased this year from nine to 10 million kronor ($1.1 million), the Nobel Foundation said on Thursday. "The work...

Nobel winners to get $110,000 raise as prize money increased

24 Sep 2020

Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000), the head of the foundation which oversees the awards said on Thursday. Prize money...

The sunny side of overall wellbeing

18 Sep 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has brought into focus the overarching need of maintaining good health. And that includes tackling vitamin D deficiency, one of the major problems in this part of...

Northern Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume dies

03 Aug 2020

The family of politician John Hume, who won Nobel Peace Prize for work to end violence in his native Northern Ireland, says he has died. He was 83....

Nobel-winning peace negotiator Ahtisaari has coronavirus

24 Mar 2020

Nobel laureate and former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari has contracted the new coronavirus, his office said on Tuesday. The 82-year-old was awarded the Peace Prize in...

Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing climate

07 Dec 2019

Three of this year's Nobel Prize laureates say addressing climate change is of great importance. Merkel says Greta Thunberg drove us to move on climate change Climate change costs poor...

With 'No Time to Die,' Daniel Craig's license as James Bond expires

05 Dec 2019

In the latest James Bond movie, "No Time to Die," Daniel Craig dons the famed tuxedo of the iconic British secret agent 007 for his fifth and final time. The...

‘Turks turn away from propaganda to novels’

01 Nov 2019

Imran Mojib, Special Correspondent The reading habit in Turkey is alive and kicking. More Turks are turning to fiction and novel simply because they do not have interest in the...

US trio wins Nobel Economics Prize for fighting global poverty

14 Oct 2019

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded on Monday to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." ...

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