Search For Keyword.

Life & Arts

Rome Film Festival opens in shadow of coronavirus

The Rome Film Festival opened on Thursday with a screening of the Pixar animated film about a jazzman's dreams, "Soul," despite the lingering coronavirus that has transformed film watching in public. As at the world-famous cinema festival in Venice last month, thermal scanners will measure...

UN's World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this year to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday. With the world in danger of a hunger crisis, the Nobel committee praised the WFP for "acting as a driving force in efforts to...

American poet Louise Gluck wins Nobel Literature Prize

The Nobel Literature Prize went Thursday to American poet Louise Gluck, the jury at the Swedish Academy said, honouring a writer known for themes of childhood and family life. Gluck, 77, was honoured "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for genome editing

Two scientists are sharing the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the tools to edit DNA, the molecular basis of all life on Earth, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday. Emmanuelle Charpentier, professor at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in...