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...

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...

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...

“Najeeb Al-Rayyes: A Journey in a Hard Time” is a documentary film by the Syrian director, Alfouz Tanjour, that tells the history of Syria after independence and before Hafez al-Assad’s reign through the story of a rebel and a patriot journalist and in a way that highlights the heavy...