The Chinese prison where Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is held has suspended visits by his family members and his wife remains under house arrest, a week after the award ceremony, a human rights group said today.

China and 18 other countries will boycott this week's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in protest at the award going to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

China's crackdown before next week’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony has widened to block a well-known artist and an economist who is more than 80 years old from travelling overseas.

Several Western diplomats said China is pressuring European governments to shun the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony next month for imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo and not to make any statements in support of him.

Prison authorities in China have started giving Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo better food, the dissident's wife said today, while she herself faces restrictions on whom she can meet and must be accompanied by a police escort whenever she leaves her home.

China today blocked European diplomats from meeting the wife of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner and cut off her phone in anger over the award.

A Briton and two Americans today shared the Nobel economics prize for developing theories that help explain how policies can affect unemployment.

An imprisoned Chinese dissident who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was allowed to meet with his wife and told her in tears that he was dedicating the award to victims of a 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, his wife and a close friend said.

Three scientists have won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a chemical method allowing researchers to make potential cancer drugs and other medicines as well as slimmed-down computer screens.

Two British-based scientists shared the Nobel Prize in physics today for "groundbreaking experiments" with an atom-thin material expected to play a large role in electronics.

The guest of honour was an ocean away, but the show went on.

Nobel Peach Prize winner Barack Obama today admitted others may be more deserving of the honour.

Barack Obama will make a flying visit to Norway today to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize, just nine days after announcing a troop surge in Afghanistan.

US President Barack Obama said he was “surprised and deeply humbled” to be honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize today.

The surprise choice of President Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize drew praise from much of the world today even as many pointed out he has not yet accomplished much on the world stage.

President Barack Obama today won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were named as winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine today for research that has implications for cancer and ageing research.

Finland’s ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize today for his efforts in places as diverse as East Timor and the Balkans.

A 90-year-old became the oldest Nobel prize winner today for his work on economic theory.

Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, today for their work in advancing economic and social opportunities.