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• Research into HIV, cancer garners Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Germany's Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the AIDS virus and the role of viruses in cervical cancer. Barre ...
• U.K. threatens to sue Iceland to protect savers
The news from London even overshadowed an emergency loan Wednesday from Sweden to Iceland’s biggest bank. The promise of legal action by the British government to recover deposits belonging to 300,000 British account holders with the Icesave ...
• 1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel in chemistry
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...
• French author Le Clezio awarded 2008 Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Swedish Academy said Thursday that French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature. The academy called Le Clezio "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer ...
• A wide and varied career
... in accordance with the document of President Ahtisaari and Kosovo appreciates very much" that he won, Thaci said. The peace prize is presented in Oslo. Nobel prizes for medicine, chemistry, physics and economics are handed out in Stockholm, Sweden ...