A team competing for a NASA-backed one million dollar grand prize achieves first lift off with an innovative, light-weight lunar lander.

Dr Cressida Beeching of the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) won first prize in the Young Investigators competition at the British Atherosclerosis Society (BAS) Spring Meeting held on 3-4 April.

Alan Trotter has been named winner of the new Sceptre Prize for emerging writers.

The Rev. Michael Heller, a prolific Polish scientist, author and Roman Catholic priest who bridges disciplines to explore the origins of the universe, was named Wednesday as winner of a religion award billed as the world's richest annual prize given to an individual.

The Templeton Foundation has given out another Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2008 goes to Australian author Sonya Hartnett.

This year’s Olof Palme Prize will go ahead as planned in Stockholm on Thursday despite the winner being banned from attending by the Iranian government.

The winner of this year’s Olof Palme prize, Parvin Ardalan, has been forced off the plane she was due to take to come to the prize ceremony in Stockholm.

This year’s Nordic Council Literature prize has gone to Naja Marie Aidt from Denmark for her collection of short stories called ”baboon.”

An initiative that has cured over 20 million people in developing countries of debilitating tropical diseases has been presented with a prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize at Buckingham Palace.

First prize in a documentary competition has been awarded to a Cambridge student for her film showing the difficulties facing Palestinian children in 2003 as they travelled to school.

Professor Chris Lowe, Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, accepted the Queen's Anniversary Award on behalf of the Institute at a ceremony held today at Buckingham Palace.