Britain's Roger Penrose receives physics award, along with German Reinhard Genzel and American Andrea Ghez, for showing phenomenon predicts general theory of relativity

'For first time, the disease can now be cured': Harvey J. Alter gets medicine Nobel, with Charles M. Rice and Michael Houghton, for identifying major source of blood-borne virus

Ceremony won't be held in main room of Oslo's City Hall, which can accommodate 1,000 guests, but in auditorium of Oslo University, which can host around 100; banquet canceled

'I mean, just look at the Nobel Prize. I’m just saying — there’s something there, I think,' says conservative author when questioned on previous controversial claims

Hillel Furstenberg becomes 1st Israeli to win Abel Prize, with Yale's Gregory Margulis, for work on 'probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics'

Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo receive award 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty'; Duflo becomes second ever female winner

Joshua Angrist of MIT and Harvard's Elhanan Helpman considered to be favorites to take this year's award, which will be announced Monday

Olga Tokarczuk's tome 'The Books of Jacob' hailed by the Swedish Academy as her 'magnum opus'; this year's prize for literature is won by Austria's Peter Handke

Findings by American and British scientists being used to develop new treatments for anemia, cancer and other diseases