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Three American Economists - Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago, and Robert Shiller of Yale, have won the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2013. They were awarded the coveted award for their work that helped answer…

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a global organisation, which has been working since 1997 for the non-proliferation of chemical weapons, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013. The OPCW has been…

Canadian writer, Alice Munro, who is one of the pioneers in the development of short stories, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 82. Munro, who hails from Wingham, has described the news as "This is so surprising and…

In a shocking development, which triggered concerns across the globe, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been abducted by a group of armed men from a hotel in Tripoli. Zeidan has been taken to an unknown destination. The Libyan…

Professor Michael Levitt of Stanford University, Martin Karplus of Université de Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for the…

Peter Higgs (Britain) and Francois Englert (Belgium) have been jointed awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013 for "the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic…

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will be shared between three Scientists. Americans James E. Rothman and Randy W. Schekman, and German Thomas C. Sudhof were awarded the prize for their discoveries of how the body's cells…

A Bangladesh court on Tuesday sentenced a leading political leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to death. He is the first lawmaker, who was convicted of the war crimes committed during the 1971 war. Salauddin, 64, a leader of the main…

The US Government has begun shutdown of government agencies for the first time in 17 years after the Republican-led House of Representatives declined to approve a budget for next year despite President Barack Obama's last-minute appeal.…

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake, which hit the Balochistan region of Pakistan yesterday, has left widespread devastation all over. The death toll has now reached 350. Awaran district in Balochistan is the worst-hit. Over 500 people are…