[naviga:h3]Nobel awarded for economics[/naviga:h3]
STOCKHOLM — British-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ...
3 choices were Americans
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis named 17 new cardinals Sunday, adding like-minded prelates from dioceses big and small to the club who will elect the...
China lax on drug control
SHANGHAI — It’s one of the strongest opioids in circulation, so deadly an amount smaller than a poppy seed can kill a person. Until July, when r...
LES CAYES, Haiti — Haitians braced for a grim, rising death toll today as help slowly trickled into marooned areas of the country’s southwestern peninsula that was pumme...
Peace prize awarded after deal's rejection
OSLO, Norway — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decades...
Haiti struggles to measure loss
LES CAYES, Haiti — Two days after Hurricane Matthew rampaged across Haiti’s remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers sti...
Molecular-level work lauded
STOCKHOLM — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing the world’s smallest machines, work that could revol...
Int’l help needed in Afghanistan
BRUSSELS — Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani appealed today for sustained international help for his insurgency-wracked country,...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has made a surprise visit to the site of the devastating August earthquake in central Italy, praying silently alone amid the rubble in the ha...
Discoveries yield breakthroughs
STOCKHOLM — British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics ...
