nobel peace prize
| 8:30AM 12/10/2010
China is using its economic growth as a lever to demand countries stay away from the Nobel ceremony in Oslo today honoring an imprisoned Chinese dissident.
| 8:30AM 10/09/2009
In a surprising move, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to United States President Barack Obama, "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's...
| 6:10PM 9/15/2009
On Saturday, Nobel Prize winning agronomist Norman Borlaug died. He was 95.
Known as "the father of the Green Revolution," Borlaug was one of America's three five living Nobel peace prize winners. While the others -- Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger and Elie Wiesel -- are household names,...