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Factbox-How does the Nobel Peace Prize work?

The winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 7 in Oslo. Here is a look at how the award works:

Reuters

Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes

The prizes were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite.

The Hindu

Nobel panel to announce winner of medicine prize

The winner, or winners, of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be announced Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden

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Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes

The beginning of October means Nobel Prize season

The Independent UK

Does scrapping of awards signal misplaced priorities?

The government order shuts down all awards instituted through private endowments for which the government was not spending anything

The Hindu

Nobel Prize Season Arrives amid War, Nuclear Fears, Hunger

This year's Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster. The secretive Nobel committees never hint who will win the prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics or peace. It's anyone's guess…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Nobel Peace Prize could condemn Ukraine war or highlight climate change

This year's Nobel Peace Prize could condemn the war in Ukraine by recognising opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the volunteers who have helped civilians, or Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who ranks high on bookmakers' lists.

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Nobel Prize season arrives amid war, nuclear fears, hunger

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster

The Independent UK

Vatican affirms sanctioning Nobel-winning bishop over sex scandal

Holy See says it received allegations over Carlos Ximenes Belo’s behaviour in East Timor 2019, and then sanctioned him.

Al Jazeera

Bishop who won Nobel for work in Timor accused of sex abuse

A Dutch magazine has reported that a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Catholic bishop has been accused of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s

The Independent UK

Ukrainian activist among winners of ‘Alternative Nobel’

The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — has been awarded to four community activists, including the head of Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties

The Independent UK

‘A new standard’: The woman behind the Johns Hopkins COVID dashboard wins major prize

In the beginning it was a lifeline, an organized collection of facts amid a swirl of coronavirus uncertainty and misinformation.

Los Angeles Times

Derek Goldrei obituary

Other lives: Mathematician who had teaching and leadership positions at the Open University and several Oxford University colleges

The Guardian - UK

Exclusive-Ukraine will never forgive Russia - Russian Nobel laureate

Ukraine will never forgive Russia for a shameful conflict which has thrown back Russia's development by half a century to Soviet times predating Mikhail Gorbachev, journalist and Nobel Peace laureate Dmitry Muratov told Reuters.

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The Independent UK

Research revealing the main cause of narcolepsy named as breakthrough of the year

Research sheds light on a central mechanism behind sleep and waking

Financial Times

How much money will actually make you happy?

We can all fantasise about what we need to make ourselves satisfied — and it doesn’t have to be a fortune

The Hindu

2023 Breakthrough Prize winners announced

The Breakthrough Prizes, created in 2010 by a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, are the most richly endowed awards in science, disbursing more than the Nobel prizes

Los Angeles Times

How an effort to reduce fossil fuel use led to another environmental problem: Light pollution

LOS ANGELES — In 2014, Los Angeles cut its annual carbon emissions by 43% and saved $9 million in energy costs by replacing the bulbs in more than half of the city's street lamps with light-emitting diodes.

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The Guardian - UK

Prince William says environment was ‘cause close to Queen’s heart’

William references grandmother in recorded message for Earthshot prize during royal mourning period

The Guardian - UK

Saul Kripke obituary

Influential American philosopher whose 1980 book Naming and Necessity challenged ideas about the identity of mind and brain

Evening Standard

Prince of Wales addresses Earthshot Prize summit in New York a day after Queen’s funeral

‘Protecting the environment was a cause close to my grandmother’s heart,’ said Prince William in his first public address since his grandmother’s funeral

Evening Standard

Ukrainian teenager named ‘global student of the year’ wins $100,000 for work on detecting landmines

Igor Klymenko was selected from more than 7,000 students to win prestigious prize

The Independent UK

Prince William cancels trip to New York following the Queen’s death

Prince of Wales was scheduled to attend September summit for Earthshot Prize, which he launched in 2021

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japanese professor wins Ig Nobel Prize

WASHINGTON -- A Japanese professor won an award for research into how people use their fingers to turn knobs at this year's Ig Nobel Prize, which recognizes humorous and profound achievements in scientific research.

The Independent UK

Ig Nobel 2022: Research on constipated scorpions, knob turning awarded for making people ‘laugh, then think’

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