A special tribunal has sentenced Bangladesh's former leader Sheikh Hasina to six months in jail after she was found in contempt of court for allegedly claiming ...

Japan has strongly condemned Donald Trump's comparison of US strikes on Iran to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Japan has voiced strong disapproval after President Trump compared recent US strikes on Iran to the atomic bombings of ...

When insects are killed or die off, everything in the food web is affected, from the birds, bats and lizards that feed on ...

Russia's ambassador to Japan will attend an annual peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in the ...

The Swift has completed 20 years in India, garnering volumes of 30,00,000 units in the domestic market alone. With a 31% ...

Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more than two years ...

The Nobel Institute is planning an event in Japan’s capital Tokyo this July, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing, to advocate for nuclear disarmament, Jiji Press reported, citing ...

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, rejected a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, stating he doesn’t want any prizes. The nomination, made by European Parliament member Branko Grims, recognized Musk ...

Prizes with more generous cash stipends exist—the Breakthrough Prize, created by Mark Zuckenberg and other tech billionaires, pays $3 million, compared with Nobel’s sum of about $1 million ...

Though Nobel purists stress that the economics prize is technically not a Nobel Prize, it is always presented together with the others on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896.

Two of the three U.S. winners of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2019 were immigrants—MIT professors Abhijit Banerjee, born in India, and Esther Duflo, born in France.