Nobel Prize

British-born Oliver Hart and Finland-born Bengt Holmstrom won the 2016 Nobel Economics Prize for their contributions to contract theory, helping the understanding of issues like the performance-based pay for top executives.

Aziz Sancar, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has said he would "give my everything, all of my scientific successes" for peace in Turkey.

With tensions running high at refugee camps and centers around the country, the European Union has approved 83 million euros in financial assistance to Greece and 110 million euros to Turkey as part of the deal between Brussels and Ankara to stem the flow of migrants in Europe.

Greece said on March 28 it would make use of loudspeakers at a migrants' camp on the Macedonia frontier to dispel "irresponsible rumours" that the border is about to reopen.

Nebojsa Stefanovic and Hans Friedrich Schodder on Monday "discussed the latest events concerning the large influx of migrants and refugees in Europe."

Serbia's interior minister and the UNHCR representative also spoke about the migrants' "transit through the Western Balkans."

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will participate in the Supporting Syria and the Region conference in London and is expected to face pressures on refugee issue especially after the article published by German magazine Spiegel, which claims that the Greek government deliberately fails on handling efficiently the refugee flows, because it wants to push the immigrants to move to other EU count

The Avaaz petition calling for signatures so that Greek islanders can receive a Nobel Prize for their handling of the Greek crisis has gathered more than 630,000 signatures from around the world since it was started in November and is trending on Twitter in Greece with the hashtag #nobel_se_ellines

The online campaign which calls for the Nobel Prize of Peace to be awarded to Greek Islanders for their response to the refugee crisis ends on February 1 aiming to gather more than 500,000 signatures.

Pope Francis has been named the winner of the International Charlemagne Prize, awarded annually by the German city of Aachen for contributions to European unity.

The prize committee said Dec. 23 that the pontiff had sent "a message of hope and encouragement" at a time in which "many citizens in Europe are seeking orientation," news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) reported.

Photographs of today’s refugees sweeping through Syria look remarkably like images snapped years ago.  A dig through the UNICEF photo archives has uncovered a children’s crisis the world thought we would never see again.Sadly, as the gallery shows, it becomes evident that children moving across borders to stay safe is not new.