STOCKHOLM — Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that sheds light on the cause-and-effect relationship between the economy and policy instruments such as interest rates and government (...)
OSLO, Norway — Arab Spring or European Union? Speculation ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday is split after cryptic comments by the award committee's chairman.
Many Nobel watchers have seen the revolutions against autocratic (...)
OSLO, Norway: The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored (...)
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded on Thursday to Tomas Transtromer of Sweden, whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him wide recognition as the most influential Scandinavian poet of recent (...)
STOCKHOLM — Scientists, writers and brokers of peace around the world will be holding their breaths for a potentially life-altering, $1.5 million phone call from Scandinavia next week.
Goran Hansson will dial the first one.
"Sometimes they (...)
STOCKHOLM: Scientists, writers and brokers of peace around the world will be holding their breaths for a potentially life-altering, $1.5 million phone call from Scandinavia next week.
Goran Hansson will dial the first one.
"Sometimes they (...)
NEW YORK: A method for building complex molecules has paid off by helping to fight cancer, protect crops and make electronic devices — and now it has earned its developers a Nobel Prize.
Three men — two Japanese scientists and an American (...)
Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world, a man of letters who also braved the violence and political divisions of his homeland to run for president, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on (...)
PRETORIA, South Africa: Dennis Rommedahl scored one goal and set up another to lead Denmark to a 2-1 comeback win over Cameroon on Saturday, eliminating the African team from the World Cup and sending the Netherlands to the round of 16.
Cameroon (...)
POLOKWANE, South Africa: Robert Koren scored a late goal Sunday to give Slovenia a 1-0 win over 10-man Algeria and first place in Group C of the World Cup.
The Slovenian captain sent in a long-range shot that Algeria goalkeeper Fawzi Chaouchi (...)
When you exit Arlanda Airport on the highway toward Stockholm, you ll see a Boeing 747 on your left that looks curiously out of place.
The plane sits idle and lonely on a grass-covered mound just outside the airport perimeter, without any (...)