STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, Martti Ahtisaari of Finland, says U.S. President-elect Barack Obama should concentrate on the Middle East.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Yoichiro Nambu, the U.S. physicist who won this year's Nobel Physics Prize with two Japanese scientists, will not attend the award ceremony, officials said.
CHICAGO, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- President-elect Barack Obama was carrying a book of poems while leaving the Chicago school of his daughters, witnesses say.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The European Parliament has boldly dared to go where the Nobel Peace Prize committee feared to: It has awarded its Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Chinese political activist Hu Jia.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A U.S. economist received the Nobel Prize in Economics for his analysis of international trade and economic geography, the Nobel Foundation said Monday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari is a great triumph for the Finnish government -- and for the government of China.
DEL MAR, Calif., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Nobel Prize winner George E. Palade, who helped give birth to the field of modern cell biology, has died at his home in Del Mar, Calif. He was 95.
OSLO, Norway, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his mediation in hot spots around the world, the Nobel Foundation announced.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel Foundation in Sweden announced Thursday.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Three U.S. chemists share the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery of the green fluorescent protein, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. and Japanese scientists earned the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on subatomic particle theory, Sweden's Nobel Foundation announced Tuesday.
OSLO, Norway, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The author of a book about Alfred Nobel's will says the late industrialist wouldn't be happy with some of the Nobel Peace Prizes given out in his name.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine was shared by three people for discoveries of viruses causing HIV and cervical cancer, the Swedish organization said.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Dan Gheesling, a 25-year-old Catholic school teacher from Dearborn, Mich., won $500,000 on the reality TV show "Big Brother 10" Tuesday night.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 26 (UPI) -- Leonid Hurwicz, an emeritus professor at the University of Minnesota who shared the Nobel Prize in economics last year, has died. He was 90.
