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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the UN World Food Programme for ‘its efforts to combat global hunger’ The UN’s World Food Programme has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Judges said the prize was to recognise its efforts in tackling global hunger Award is a snub to WHO, also a UN body, amid … Read more
World Food Programme wins the Nobel Peace Prize By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline Published: 10:02 BST, 9 October 2020 | Updated: 10:04 BST, 9 October 2020 The World Food Programme has been announced as the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts in combatting global hunger. The UN body topped a field of … Read more
Two female scientists win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating a new way to edit genes By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 10:54 BST, 7 October 2020 | Updated: 11:05 BST, 7 October 2020 Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier, 51, and Jennifer Doudna, 56, won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the development of … Read more
British scientist Roger Penrose among three winners of Nobel physics prize for cosmology for their discoveries related to black holes Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez share the Nobel for physics Professor Penrose, from the University of Oxford, won it for work on black holes Professors Ghez and Genzel shared it for their collaboration … Read more
Three scientists – including one Briton – who discovered the hepatitis C virus have won the 2020 Nobel Prize for medicine. The winners of the coveted award are Michael Houghton, a virologist at the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health in Cambridge, and Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice. The Nobel committee said the trio’s finds … Read more
John Lennon has said that he believes his pal John Lennon would have won a Nobel Peace Prize if he hadn’t been killed in 1980. The singer, 73, discussed his ‘wonderful two or three year whirlwind bromance’ with the Beatles star on Radio 2’s John Lennon at 80 special. Chatting to the late Imagine singer’s son … Read more
Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The leader was put forward by a group of Russian writers led by Sergey Komkov, according to Russian news agency TASS. They submitted the application in Oslo on September 10, putting him alongside Donald Trump in the list of potential candidates for the prestigious award. … Read more
Gemma Collins was spotted out in her native Essex on Tuesday, shortly after it was revealed she has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The TOWIE star, 39, cut a low-key figure in a tracksuit as she picked up essentials while stepping out hot on the heels of news she has been tipped for … Read more
Frozen knives made out of faeces, vibrating worms and narcissistic eyebrows were among the bizarre scientific studies featured in this year’s Ig Nobel awards. Harvard University’s annual spoof on the Nobel Prize awards rewards weird, amusing and often gruesome scientific discoveries. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Thursday’s 30th annual Ig Nobel ceremony was a 75-minute pre-recorded … Read more
Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize following deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Trump was nominated by was nominated by Norwegian MP Tybring-Gjedde Tybring-Gjedde praised for his efforts towards resolving conflicts worldwide The deal between Isreal and the UAE is a Middle East ‘game changer’, he said By Chris … Read more