Uncommon Sense confirms that Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Payá has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying, “There should be little doubt that if he were to be named this year's recipient, it would elevate his status and ...

Wired op-ed: Why the Internet should win the Nobel Peace Prize http://j.mp/9qsy2D Remember “David After Dentist,” the YouTube-tastic viral vid? It’s earned David’s family $$ in the “low six figures” http://j.mp/93N0zy Online-only fo...

This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate — recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize — are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman contender: the internet. From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed s...

It's an odd concept but there is a movement to nominate "the Internet" for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. There's even a Web site, InternetForPeace.org,...

NEW YORK — Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei (ehl-BEHR'-uh-day) is writing a memoir about his years as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency,...

Discrimination Against Sexual Orientation Are 'Backward Steps' For Human Rights In Africa In a Washington Post opinion piece, Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, speaks...

Over 200 nominations for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize now that they’ve seen how easy it is to get one. Glen Beck and the Family Guy are short listed. New national English standards—talk good, be able to text while driving and use...

President Obama announced last week the charities that will be receiving money from his Nobel Peace Prize Award. The full list is here, but it includes a Haiti relief organization, and a number of organizations focusing on access to...

The internet is one of 237 nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. From the BBC: "The nomination for the internet is supported by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and the...

‘The internet’ is in the running for the 201o Nobel Peace Prize. The BBC reports that ‘the internet’ is among a record 237 individuals and organizations nominated, up from even last year’s all-time high of 205. Modesty does not prev...

A hospital official says former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is recovering after being hospitalized in the South Korean capital with stomach pains. He is expected to be released tomorrow. The 86-year-old Nobel Peace Prize l...

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama last year, despite the very modest nature of his success in actually achieving peace so far, has stimulated a record number of nominations for the prize this year: A record 237 peop...

When President Obama received his Nobel Peace Prize last fall, he also received $1.4 million as part of his award. The president had said he would donate the prize money to charity. Today the White House announced the names of ten o...

Good for him.President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said "d...

Winning the Nobel Peace Prize, warranted or not, means you get a cool $1.4 million with which to keep on' peacin' on. Nobel laureate/President Barack Obama has announced that he'll donate his prize money to a long list of charities....

President Barack Obama has announced which groups will get the $1.4 million he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama said Thursday that $250,000 will go to Fisher House, a national nonprofit that houses families whose lo...

The planet's largest purveyor of pornography, the world wide web, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, prompting both South Africa's religious right and frigid left, to reconsider their attempts to get DSTV's proposed porno c...

U.S. President Barack Obama named ten charity organizations which would benefit from the $1.4 million he received after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, U.S. media said on Friday....