Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to be awarded the prestigious prize since it was first handed out in 1901.Maathai, who has served as......
Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her campaigns to save Kenyan forests, died in a hospital in Nairobi late on Sunday after a long struggle with ovarian......
Nobel Peace Laureates have asked all countries, including India and China, to invest in safer forms of renewable energy instead of nuclear energy in the backdrop of recent atomic disaster in......
Over half the Nobel Peace Prizes awarded since 1946 are illegitimate because they are in breach of the terms of Alfred Nobel's will, claims a Norwegian peace activist. Fredrik Heffermehl, who is......
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 was awarded to Muhammad Yunus, the 66-year-old Bangladeshi behind the Grameen Movement micro-banking system that has helped millions in his homeland, it was announced......
Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will co-host the Nobel Peace Prize concert to honour Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The concert will......
The advertisement for Stolen Childhoods, a probing documentary about oppressive child labour in seven countries including India, is so small in The New York Times that readers may miss it. But the......