Nobel Prize

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The physics 2021 Nobel prize means the conversation is no longer about debating whether climate change is real, but rather what we should do about it

The prime minister may have won the Nobel Peace Prize but he has failed to quell the violence in his own backyard

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The trio will receive the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10

Yale economist William Nordhaus has devoted his life’s work to understanding the costs of climate change

Canadian scientist Donna Strickland became just the third woman in history to win the Nobel Physics Prize

Annan was a career diplomat who is widely credited for raising the world body’s profile in global politics during his two terms as UN chief

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We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.

The singer-songwriter has always stood for a craftsmanship and artistry that make his Nobel deserved and unsurprising.

And the Companions of OR Tambo award for friendly foreigners goes to … the Guptas, of course.

Belarussian Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel prize for literature for her thousands of oral histories that map the implosion of the Soviet Union.