Children’s rights activists Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India and have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and US scientist Shuji Nakamura have won the Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes - a new energy efficient and environment-friendly light source.

Three scientists, including a Norwegian married couple, have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the “inner GPS” that helps the brain navigate through the world.

If you haven't seen this yet, this is how to face a losing situation and come out a winner.

Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller have won the Nobel prize for economics for developing new methods to study trends in asset markets.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will attend a ceremony today where the European Union (EU) will be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.

“Not this prize, not this year” is the message from the protesters on the streets of Oslo with their torches, objecting to the EU receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

Life-saving kidney exchange programmes and ways for schools to select students are just two practical applications of the market-matching theories for which US economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel prize for economics yesterday.

Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley have won the Nobel economics prize for research that helps explain the market processes when doctors are assigned to hospitals, students to schools and human organs for transplant to recipients.

Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry for studies of proteins that let body cells respond to signals from the outside.

Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have won the Nobel economics prize “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”.

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals.

Three scientists whose research on the immune system opened up new avenues for prevention and treatment of infections, cancer and inflammations have won the Nobel Prize for medicine.

A SUPERSTAR in Australia and destined to be a superstar in the Northern Hemisphere — that was the impression given by So You Think on his debut for Aidan O’Brien in the Group 3 High Chaparral Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Golden Jubilee hero Starspangledbanner features among 17 confirmations for the Darley July Cup on Friday.

AIDAN O’BRIEN blamed a lack of pace for Fame And Glory’s surprise reverse at the Curragh on Sunday.

Aidan O’Brien blamed a lack of pace for Fame And Glory’s surprise reverse at the Curragh yesterday.

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S message was not to write off Fame And Glory despite the Irish Derby winner fading into third on his comeback at the Curragh yesterday.

LIBANO should prove tough to beat in the Group 3 www.thetote.com Gladness Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

LAST year’s Irish Derby hero Fame And Glory is set to make his seasonal reappearance in the New Tote Sports Lounge Alleged Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

AIDAN O’BRIEN has moved to outline his StanJames.com Guineas plans – with a few notable exceptions.

Aidan O’Brien has moved to outline his StanJames.com Guineas plans – with a few notable exceptions.

AIDAN O’BRIEN has reported his army of horses that worked after racing at the Curragh on Sunday to have returned to Ballydoyle unscathed.

Johnny Murtagh has been crowned Ireland’s champion Flat jockey.

THERE IS no doubt this recession has started to bite hard as far as racing is concerned.

HISTORY can be made at the 26th running of the Breeders’ Cup with the unbeaten Californian star Zenyatta taken to become the first mare to land the $5m Classic at Santa Anita tonight.

JOHNNY Murtagh and Pat Smullen got together before racing at Leopardstown yesterday to promote the finale of the 2009 Flat Championship.

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

Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel economics prize today for their work in economic governance.

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.

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.

IN Some Respect is difficult to oppose in the opering Dunboyne Maiden at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

THE Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh this afternoon very much centres on the great Yeats and how strong he is going to prove in the market.

Aidan O'Brien fields three of the six contenders for Saturday's ladbrokes.com Vincent O'Brien National Stakes at the Curragh.

THE Curragh can look forward to a cracking afternoon on Saturday, with Yeats a major draw in the Irish Field St Leger, while the National Stakes has attracted a smashing entry.

Ballydoyle look to be doing everything they can to win Saturday’s Ladbrokes.com Vincent O’Brien National Stakes at Leopardstown by providing 12 of the possible 18 runners at this stage.

KEVIN Prendergast’s Saajidah gets the nap in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Galway tonight.

LILLIE LANGTRY is the nap choice to land what promises to be an informative Group 2 Debutante Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

ANDREW Oliver believes In Some Respect has every chance of making his presence felt as he steps up to Group One company for the Camas Park & Ashtown House Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

ALFRED NOBEL gets the nap to outbattle Walk On Bye in the Camas Park and Ashtown House Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

WALK On Bye is all set to put her unbeaten record on the line in the Phoenix Stakes after being supplemented for the Curragh feature on Sunday.

Walk On Bye is all set to put her unbeaten record on the line in the Phoenix Stakes after being supplemented for the Curragh feature on Sunday.

RADIOHEAD will bid to supplement his Royal Ascot gains in the Camas Park & Ashtown House Studs Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday week.

Radiohead will bid to supplement his Royal Ascot gains in the Camas Park & Ashtown House Studs Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday week.