Having made millions after he secured the rights to J. K. Rowling’s books about a child wizard, Harry Potter film producer David Heyman is now pinning his hopes on an artificial being who longs to find a human owner. I can disclose that Heyman has snapped up the rights to Sir Kazuo Ishiguro’s most recent novel … Read more
The father of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has called upon his daughter to break with centuries-old tradition and choose her own partner as he says ‘she’ll be a better judge than me’. Ziauddin Yousafzai, who inspired his daughter’s love of education, said he was proud to challenge the constraints of the Pakistani community … Read more
Black Lives Matter has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of what the nominator said was BLM’s impact in raising awareness of racism worldwide. Despite a turbulent summer in the United States following the death of George Floyd, which saw some BLM protests splinter into violent confrontation, the group was praised for … Read more
WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyseus is accused of aiding genocide in Ethiopia: Nobel peace prize nominee lodges complaint with International Criminal Court American economist David Steinman accused WHO chief of being one of three officials who directed Ethopia’s security forces from 2013 to 2015 Tedros, who denies the allegations, was Ethiopia’s foreign minister until 2016 The … Read more
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is receiving vile abuse from social media trolls after she showed support for a Conservative friend. The 23-year-old political activist from Pakistan shared a post asking friends to vote for Kia Williams as president of Oxford University Conservative Association. But online trolls attacked Ms Yousafzai as a ‘disingenuous careerist’ … Read more
A Stanford University professor raced to his sleeping colleague’s home at 2am and woke him up to let him know they had just won the Nobel Peace Prize in economics. Paul R. Milgrom, 72, and Robert B. Wilson, 83, were awarded the prestigious prize on Monday as the winners were announced in Stockholm by Goran Hansson, … Read more
Two American professors have been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics for improving the theory of how auctions work and inventing new and better auction formats that are now woven into many parts of the economy. Paul R. Milgrom, 72, and Robert B. Wilson, 83, were awarded the prestigious prize on Monday as the winners … Read more
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the UN World Food Programme for ‘its efforts to combat global hunger’ By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline Published: 10:02 BST, 9 October 2020 | Updated: 10:08 BST, 9 October 2020 The World Food Programme has been announced as the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for its … Read more
Two female scientists win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of powerful gene-editing tool Crispr-Cas9 Only five women have previously won the Nobel prize for Chemistry The two scientists have won the award for their discovery of Crispr-Cas9 The ground-breaking tool allows for precise changes for genetic code By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline … Read more
Pictured, Professor Roger Penrose from the University of Oxford The 2020 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to leading astronomers Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. Professor Penrose, 89, from the University of Oxford, was awarded half of the prestigious prize ‘for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of … Read more