Nobel Prize
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China Blacks Out Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
World | Dec 10, 2010, 09:46 PM ISTBeijing, Dec 10 (PTI) Shortly after the Nobel Peace Prize was given to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in absentia at Oslo, the government here today slammed the decision to honour him as a "Cold
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China To Award Own Nobel Prize
World | Dec 08, 2010, 12:19 PM ISTBeijing, Dec 8 : Only three weeks after the idea was first publicly floated, China has cobbled together its own peace prize and plans to award it Thursday -- the day before the Nobel Committee
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Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize
World | Oct 07, 2010, 08:19 PM ISTStockholm, Oct 7: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature today. The Swedish
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2 Japanese, American Share Chemistry Nobel Prize
World | Oct 06, 2010, 05:07 PM ISTStockholm, Oct 6: American Richard Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for developing a chemical method that has allowed scientists to test cancer drugs
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Obama Defends War As He Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
World | Dec 10, 2009, 11:00 PM ISTUS President Barack Obama evoked the cause of a just war on Thursday, accepting his Nobel Peace Prize just nine days after sending 30,000 more US troops to war in Afghanistan but promising to use
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German Writer Herta Mueller Wins Nobel Prize For Literature
World | Oct 08, 2009, 05:26 AM ISTHerta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday in an award seen as a nod