Nobel prize

Dylan has not yet made any comment on the 8 million crown prize despite repeated attempts by award-givers

Issues such as contract design, privatisation of public sector are discussed

The prize is the latest of many accolades for the native of Duluth, Minnesota

Fo was best known for his works 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' and 'Can't Pay, Won't Pay'

Their groundbreaking work has laid "an intellectual foundation" for designing policies and institutions in many areas

The Nobel prizes are awarded to those with achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and peace

With a record 376 nominations to consider, predicting the winner is largely a lottery

The French, Scottish and Dutch scientists had developed molecules with controllable movements

Medicine prize went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his pioneering work on autophagy

British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz won the 2016 Nobel Prize

Peres won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994

Wilson, 50, says the award was recognition for women workers who had said no to scavenging

The humble Abdul Sattar Edhi has served as a beacon of hope for millions in the country over the last many decades

President says Tawakkol Karman, Malala Yousufzai role model for youth

Working from households, he would re-imagine macro-economics

Do not mistake Alexievich’s work as a record of women’s role in wars

US-British micro-economist won the prestigious award groundbreaking work on poverty alleviation

The Nobel panel says award to the National Dialogue Quartet was intended as an "encouragement to the Tunisian people"

Nobel jury says the three opened dazzling frontier in medicine by unveiling how body repairs DNA mutations

Tu won half of the award for her work on artemisinin, an anti-malarial drug based on ancient Chinese herbal medicine

Date of announcement is usually only revealed few days in advance unlike dates of other Nobel prizes

Recently several Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry and economics have sold for between $300,000 and $400,000

Xiaobo was jailed for 11 years in 2009 on subversion charges for organizing a petition urging an end to one-party rule