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Polish author Olga Tokarczuk speaks during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 12, 2017.

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Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke win literature prizes

by David Keyton Associated PressOctober 10, 2019

STOCKHOLM — Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes for literature on Thursday, a rare double announcement that came after no prize was announced last year due to sex abuse allegations that…

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 17, 2006 file photo Swiss professor Michel Mayor, astrophysicist and director of the Geneva Observatory, poses in front of the picture of the Milky Way, in Geneva, Switzerland. The 2019 Nobel prize for Physics was given to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology," and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star," said Prof. Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that chooses the laureates. (Salvatore Di Nolfi, Keystone via AP)

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3 win Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand cosmos

by David Keyton Associated PressOctober 8, 2019

This undated photo provided by NYU Stern School of Business shows Paul Romer. Romer and Yale University's William Nordhaus have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Nordhaus was named for integrating climate change into long term macroeconomic analysis and Romer was awarded for factoring technological innovation into macroeconomics. (NYU Stern School of Business via AP)

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Two Americans win econ Nobel for work on climate and growth

by Paul Wiseman Associated Press, and David Keyton Associated PressOctober 9, 2018

FILE - In this Monday, June 28, 2004 file photo, University of Michigan Professor Gerard Mourou, center, and fellow research scientists Anatoly Makisimchuk, left, and Victor Yanovsky talk about the potential of the laser dubbed Hercules that has been built over the past five years at the University of Michigan lab. American Arthur Ashkin, Canadian Donna Strickland, and French scientist Gerard Mourou win the 2018 Nobel Prize for work in laser physics. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Robert...

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Scientists from US, France, Canada win Nobel for laser work

by David Keyton Associated Press, and Jim Heintz Associated PressOctober 2, 2018

Leader of the Nobel committee Berit Reiss-Andersen, left, presents the award to Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow and Beatrice Fihn, leader of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, in Oslo, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017. (Berit Roald/NTB Scanpix via AP)

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US Nobel laureate worries politics could undermine science

by David Keyton Associated Press, and Jim Heintz Associated PressDecember 10, 2017

106-year old Afghan refugee Bibihal Uzbeki lies in bed in Hova, Sweden, Sunday, and despite being severely disabled and barely able to speak, she is facing deportation from Sweden after her asylum application was rejected. Bibihal Uzbeki made a perilous journey to Europe, carried by her son and grandson through mountains, deserts and forests, but has suffered a debilitating stroke and now faces deportation.

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106-year-old Afghan woman faces deportation from Sweden

by David Keyton Associated PressSeptember 4, 2017

Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven places flowers and a candle on Queens Street where a hijacked beer truck ploughed into pedestrians at a central Stockholm department store Friday. Lofven laid a bouquet of red roses and lit a candle near the department store in Stockholm where a hijacked beer truck crashed on a busy shopping street.

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Stolen truck kills 4 in Stockholm; Sweden calls it terror

by David Keyton Associated Press, and Jan M. Olsen Associated PressApril 7, 2017

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2016 file photo, a smiley face is seen on a sunflower in a sunflower field in Lawrence, Kan. Over the past decade as income in the U.S. has gone up, self-reported happiness levels have fallen fast, some of the biggest slides in the world. Yet this year, Norway vaulted to the top slot in the annual World Happiness Report despite the plummeting price of oil, a key part of its economy. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Who’s happy, who’s not: Norway tops list, US falls

by Seth Borenstein Associated Press, and David Keyton Associated PressMarch 20, 2017

People gather to demonstrate against Iceland’s prime minister, in Reykjavik on Monday.

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Icelandic PM resigns amid offshore accounts scandal

by David Keyton Associated Press, and Jenna Gottlieb Associated PressApril 5, 2016

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Icelandic PM to resign amid offshore holdings controversy

by Jenna Gottlieb Associated Press, and David Keyton Associated PressApril 5, 2016