Maria Ressa, a Nobel prize winner and co-founder of the online news site Rappler, has been acquitted of a tax evasion charge in the Philippines, another legal victory in her battle against multiple charges filed during the government of former…
Swedish geneticist wins Nobel prize for Neanderthal research
A Swedish geneticist has been awarded the 2022 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Svante Pääbo has won the 10m Swedish kronor (£867,000) prize announced on Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Pääbo won the prize…
Will Chimamanda win the Nobel this year?
A Swedish literary critic Jonas Thente said he hopes that Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie is awarded a Nobel Prize in October 2021. Thente, a literary editor and critic at Dagens Nyheter in Sweden, however, said he fears that the 44-year-old…
Toni Morrison re-defined and enriched the world of literature – Toni Kan
Every death diminishes us but some more than most. Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia Wofford departed this mortal coil into the realm of the ancestors on August 5, 2019. Nobel laureate and critically acclaimed author of over 10 novels, Ms.…
FIFA, Nobel Prize, Theresa May, others celebrate Mandela’s 100th posthumous birthday (Punch)
FIFA, Nobel Prize, British Prime Minister, Theresa May, and others on Wednesday joined the world to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 100th posthumous birthday. Taking to Twitter, lovers of the apartheid activist have been sharing photos, quotes and wishes for the legendary statement,…