https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Europe in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to Venezuela's opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. https://www.thelocal.com/20251010/norwegian-nobel-committee-awards-peace-prize-to-maria-corina-machado Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:22:27 +0200 norwegian-nobel-committee-awards-peace-prize-to-maria-corina-machado Cancer research or drugs treating cardiovascular illnesses could win a Nobel Prize on Monday when a week of laureate announcements kicks off, bringing a ray of optimism to a world beset by crises. https://www.thelocal.com/20241007/sweden-kicks-off-nobel-week-with-hotly-anticipated-medicine-prize Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:05:50 +0200 sweden-kicks-off-nobel-week-with-hotly-anticipated-medicine-prize Imprisoned women's rights campaigner, Narges Mohammadi was honoured by the Norwegian Nobel Committee with the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran. https://www.thelocal.com/20231006/jailed-iran-rights-campaigner-narges-mohammadi-wins-peace-nobel Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:43:08 +0200 jailed-iran-rights-campaigner-narges-mohammadi-wins-peace-nobel Three scientists whose names were leaked hours before the announcement were on Wednesday awarded the Nobel Chemistry Prize. https://www.thelocal.com/20231004/trio-wins-nobel-chemistry-prize-for-nanocrystals-work-after-controversial-leak Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:01:55 +0200 trio-wins-nobel-chemistry-prize-for-nanocrystals-work-after-controversial-leak French-Swedish physicist Anne L'Huillier won the Nobel Physics Prize together with France's Pierre Agostini and Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz for research into tools for exploring electrons inside atoms and molecules. https://www.thelocal.com/20231003/sweden-based-scientist-becomes-fifth-woman-to-win-nobel-physics-prize Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:58:52 +0200 sweden-based-scientist-becomes-fifth-woman-to-win-nobel-physics-prize Despite Sweden's Nobel prize sum this year being higher than ever, the weak krona means that a lot of foreign prize winners this year have less money than they did 20 years ago, once they convert it to another currency. https://www.thelocal.com/20231003/nobel-prize-winners-left-short-changed-by-weak-swedish-krona Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:46:53 +0200 nobel-prize-winners-left-short-changed-by-weak-swedish-krona This year's Nobel Literature Prize could make a political statement and honour a writer defending freedom of expression, some experts think. https://www.thelocal.com/20231003/who-are-the-top-contenders-for-nobel-prize-in-literature Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:14:02 +0200 who-are-the-top-contenders-for-nobel-prize-in-literature Katalin Karikó of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines. https://www.thelocal.com/20231002/rna-discovery-behind-covid-vaccines-wins-nobel-prize Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:12 +0200 rna-discovery-behind-covid-vaccines-wins-nobel-prize A week of Nobel Prize announcements gets under way in Stockholm on Monday, with narcolepsy, cancer and mRNA vaccine research among the possible contenders for the Medicine Prize. https://www.thelocal.com/20231002/narcolepsy-cancer-or-covid-vaccines-nobel-medicine-prize-to-be-revealed Mon, 02 Oct 2023 08:24:08 +0200 narcolepsy-cancer-or-covid-vaccines-nobel-medicine-prize-to-be-revealed Jimmie Åkesson, party leader for the far-right Sweden Democrats, will be invited to the Nobel Prize banquet for the first time this year, alongside the ambassadors for Russia, Iran and Belarus. https://www.thelocal.com/20230901/sweden-democrat-party-leader-invited-to-nobel-banquet-for-first-time Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:01:45 +0200 sweden-democrat-party-leader-invited-to-nobel-banquet-for-first-time Three researchers have won the Nobel Economics Prize for the way they "revolutionised" empirical work in economics. https://www.thelocal.com/20211011/trio-share-nobel-prize-for-new-insights-about-the-labour-market Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:01:34 +0200 trio-share-nobel-prize-for-new-insights-about-the-labour-market