Edward Snowden was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian politicians, including a former government minister, for contributing to transparency and global stability by exposing a US surveillance programme.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) won the Nobel Peace Prize for working to eliminate the scourge that has haunted generations from the First World War to the battlefields of Syria.

Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries on how proteins and other materials are transported within cells.

The European Union's three presidents collected the Nobel Peace Prize today in recognition of six decades of work promoting "peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights".

European leaders negotiating the bloc’s budget must not lose sight of the project’s overarching purpose, argues Hans Zomer

THE Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to a Canadian cell biologist who died three days ago will stand, the Nobel Foundation said yesterday after examining its statutes against posthumous awards.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it had received a record 241 nominations for the 2011 peace prize.

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China is awarding its own peace prize to counter the Nobel that recognised imprisoned democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo.

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 has set up its own peace prize and plans to award it on Thursday, the day before the Nobel Committee honours an imprisoned Chinese dissident in a move that has enraged Beijing.

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.

The Nobel Peace Prize may not be handed out this year because no one from jailed Chinese dissident award-winner Liu Xiaobo’s family is likely to attend the ceremony, the award committee said today.

A GUY walks into a bar and shouts: “Drinks all around: my wife’s next in line for the Nobel Peace Prize!”

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

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.

IMPRISONED Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for using non-violence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland.

China denounced the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo today and said the decision would hurt relations with Norway.

Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize today for “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights” – an award sure to infuriate the Chinese government.

President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4m from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organisations he said "do extraordinary work".

PRESIDENT Barack Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners yesterday with humble words, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defence of war and promising to use the prestigious award to “reach for the world that ought to be”.

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

FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama “doesn’t make any sense” and that the US President is “probably embarrassed himself” over the decision.

THREE of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported yesterday.

Four judges have spoken out to defend awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US president Barack Obama.

I NOTE that President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work, despite the notable handicap of coming to office just 11 days before the close of nominations for the prize.

A “HUMBLED” US President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and co-operation rather than unilateralism.

A SURPRISED world greeted the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama with a mixture of praise and scepticism.

THE decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama so extraordinarily early in his presidency — less than nine months after he took office — was as unexpected as it is unprecedented.

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.”

Tributes were today paid to Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney as he reached his 70th birthday.

President Mary McAleese has paid tribute to Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari for his work in verifying that IRA arms were put beyond use.

FORMER taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his British counterpart Tony Blair are in the running for the Nobel peace prize, but then so too are Bono and Geldof — that’s Bob, not Peaches.

THE Green Party yesterday led the Irish political tributes to former US Vice President Al Gore following the announcement that he was the joint winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Al Gore’s climate change campaign which led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize today was criticised as one-sided sentimental mush which could lead to global instability, not peace.

GERHARD ERTL from Germany won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry yesterday, his 71st birthday.

TWO European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for a discovery that allowed the iPod to become reality.

A British researcher who discovered genetic fingerprinting that has helped solve crimes and settle paternity disputes is among potential candidates for the Nobel Prize in medicine, the first of six prestigious awards to be announced today by the Nobel committees.

BANGLADESHI economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans — microcredit — to lift millions out of poverty.

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.

Scientists who researched so-called “knockout mice”, DNA fingerprinting or stem cells are among the possible candidates for the Nobel Prize in medicine to be announced today in the Swedish capital.