As with the other Nobels, nominations and deliberations are kept secret for 50 years, so it's nearly impossible to know which way the prize...

Murad is one of an estimated 3,000 Yazidi girls and women who were victims of rape and other abuses by the IS army.

No Literature Prize will be given out for the first time in 70 years because of a #MeToo scandal.

Other favourites include Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who defied the Taliban, and Russian media...

Last year, the Nobel Committee's five members, who are appointed by the Norwegian parliament, drew the ire of Beijing when they handed the ...