Nobel peace prize nominations seen short of record
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received 167 nominations for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize according to a preliminary count, 24 fewer than last year and short of a record 199 set in 2005, an official said on Monday.
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Alfred Nobel created the peace prize more than a century ago, but it is the Norwegian Nobel Committee that decides who gets it.
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The 2004 Nobel prizes will be announced between October 4 and 11, the Nobel Foundation said, with US president George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the running for the prestigious Peace Prize.
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Former Vice President Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world's attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday.
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The decision by the five-member Nobel Committee to award this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to an environmental activist prompted some prominent Norwegians to criticize the selection
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Nominations close for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, and among the entrants is a 98-year-old Briton who saved 700 Czech-Jewish children from the Nazis.
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Among those tipped to win the 2004 Nobel  Peace Prize on Friday are the U.N. nuclear watchdog and its  leader Mohamed ElBaradei, a Kenyan environmentalist and a  Russian anti-nuclear activist.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai dismissed critics on Thursday who say ecology has too little to do with peace to merit the award. She said most wars are fought over natural resources.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai is to be presented with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 at a ceremony in Oslo. Professor Maathai, also Kenya&#39;s deputy environment minister, is the first African woman
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The latest Nobel Prize laureate for literature is a self-described advocate for the weak, whose own &quot;social phobia&quot; will keep her from attending the awards ceremony in Stockholm.
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Scientists and economists from the United States, Israel and Norway received their Nobel prizes on Friday at a ceremony marked by the conspicuous absence of literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek of Austria.
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Oslo - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 on Friday at a ceremony in Oslo, making her the first African woman and first environmentalist to receive the prestigious award.
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Al Gore may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but Internet data shows that the public still has a lot to learn about climate change
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Al Gore and to a United Nations panel for their work on global warming.
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The Nobel Foundation said Wednesday it will begin announcing the 2004 Nobel Prize winners on Oct.
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The Nobel Foundation said Wednesday it will being announcing the 2004 Nobel Prize winners on Oct.
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Speculation on who will win the Nobel Peace Prize has been hotly focused on the battle against one of the great threats to world peace: weapons of mass destruction.