A record five women were among the 13 people awarded Nobel Prizes, including a writer who depicted life behind the Iron Curtain and two American researchers who showed how chromosomes protect themselves from degrading. Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf on Thursday presented the 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and economics at an ...

The 2009 Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller said Monday she started writing when it was no longer possible to use spoken words to describe the despicable events in her native Romania under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. Mueller said she was persecuted after refusing to ...

He's the Nobel Peace Prize winner who just ordered 30,000 more troops to war. He's the laureate who says he doesn't deserve the award. He's not quite 11 months on the job and already in the company ...

One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marveled at how critics could be so patronizing. In a rare public defense of a process normally shrouded in secrecy, four of the Nobel jury ...