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.

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. 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.

LONDON, May 11 (UPI) -- Receiving the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007 has had a good many negative consequences, British author Doris Lessing says.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Three professors from the United States were named Monday in Sweden as the recipients of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Sweden's Nobel Academy on Thursday awarded 87-year-old British author Doris Lessing the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A 71-year-old German professor from Berlin on Wednesday was announced as the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry in Sweden.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded French and German scientists the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on giant magnetoresistance.

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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Alan G. MacDiarmid, whose discovery of plastics that conduct electricity won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has died at age 79. MacDiarmid, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, died at his Philadelphia-area home, The New York Times said Friday.

NEW DELHI, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has won India's highest international honor, the Gandhi Peace Prize. The award was conferred on the Nobel Prize laureate by Indian President Abdul Kalam Friday at a New Delhi ceremony.