Nobel Prize

The first White House poetry party is in its way. US President Barack Obama has invited writers and musicians to perform in this party. Consolidating his reputation for cool after his performance as a stand-up comic Obama has invited poets and ...

Twenty seven years after it was published, Indian-born author Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' today won the coveted 'Best of the Booker' award. ...

The 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual Buddhist guru, turns 73 today. Born Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso on July 6, 1935, he became the 14th and current Dalai Lama in 1950. ...

Railing against the internet technology, nobel laureate Doris Lessing has said it has ''seduced a whole generation into its inanities'' and created a world where people know nothing. ...

OSLO, Sep 19 (Reuters) The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a climate campaigner such as ex-US Vice-President Al Gore or Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, reinforcing a view that global warming is a threat to world security, experts say. ...