Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela January 9, 2025. REUTERS/Maxwell Briceno/File Photo OSLO, Dec 10 (Reuters ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado ‘s daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her mother’s behalf Wednesday, hours after officials said Machado would miss the ceremony. The daughter of the Nobel Peace Prize ...

Each December, the Nobel ceremony transforms years—and often decades—of painstaking intellectual work into one of the world’s most concentrated displays of human achievement. Every December, while holiday lights twinkle outside shop windows and party ...

President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 "for his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia," according to the Nobel Prize's website.

The Nobel laureates in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics all received their prizes from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a separate ceremony in Stockholm on Wednesday. The prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal and 11 million kronor ($1.2 million) -- which is shared when several laureates are honoured in the same category.