The Latest Breaking News on Prizes

Other lives: Refugee from Czechoslovakia who became a maths teacher after settling in the UK

Work is getting underway on the new campus at last

Other lives: Sociology professor who studied labour relations and trade unions in post-Soviet Russia

Professor Christine Holt shares the Brain Prize with two other neuroscientists.

Caffarelli, 74, takes top trophy for work on partial differential equations, the first winner from South America

After Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, shaking world markets, Nobel economics prize winner Joseph Stiglitz says US authorities "did the right thing" by providing federal money to protect deposits. But the economist also says the financial system needs a rethink to properly bring it into the digital era.

Other lives: Research scientist whose expertise was in theoretical surface chemistry

Words of praise for prime minister Narendra Modi by the Nobel Prize Committee deputy leader have been widely reported as his acknowledgement that the Indian prime minister was the “biggest contender for Nobel Peace Prize”.

Nobel Peace Prize-winning Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi on Wednesday urged the EU to maintain pressure on the authorities in Tehran over human rights violations. "Subordinate aid to Iran, contracts with Iran, and treaties with Iran to respecting international norms, otherwise the money will not benefit the Iranian people at all,"…