American, Frenchman Share &#36;1M Kluge Prize
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An 80-year-old American historian, Jaroslav Pelikan, and a 91-year-old French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, will share the &#36;1 million Kluge prize, created last year to honor achievement in fields not covered by the Nobel prizes.
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Three Americans shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work in increasing science's understanding of the forces that bind together the smallest pieces of matter, known as quarks.
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Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczeck won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their exploration of the force that binds particles inside the atomic nucleus.
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US downhiller Lindsey Kildow, of Vail, wasn&#39;t about to let history be made only at Beaver Creek on Friday, where Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves became the first American duo to finish 1-2 in a World Cup downhill.
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Johnny Weir and Brian Joubert already have victories in the Grand Prix series. The American champion and European gold medalist meet this week at the Trophee Bompard.
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Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for work on cosmic radiation that helped pinpoint the age of the universe and added weight to the Big Bang theory of its birth.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- It's not as though they're children or anything. David Howell is 29, a nine-year veteran of the European PGA Tour. Paul Casey is 27, a highly publicized collegiate star here in America who has earned more than $1.6 million this year splitting his time between the American and European tours.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Benoit Peschier of France won gold in the men&#39;s single kayak on Friday, while the Slovakian team of Pavol and Peter Hochschorner took gold in the men&#39;s double canoe at the Helliniko Slalom Center.
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Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the giant slalom Wednesday, and American Ted Ligety finished fourth, missing out on a medal by 0.07 seconds at the world ski championships.
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Marc Berthod leads a 1-2 finish Swiss finish in the World Cup giant slalom yesterday in Switzerland after Americans Bode Miller and Ted Ligety fail to complete clean runs.
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MANTES-LA-JOLIE, France -- Fernand Trigano stood beside a rack of $8 jeans and watched French presidential candidate Francois Bayrou work a street market in an immigrant suburb of Paris, shaking hands over baskets of dried fish, stacks of flat bread and mannequins modeling head scarves.
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Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics for work that helped shed light on the infancy of the universe, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday.
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American novelist Jonathan Littell, whose award-winning, 900-page World War II opus is written in French, has been granted French nationality.Comment
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One winner was lecturing in Norway when he found out. The other was sleeping in Arizona. Finn Kydland of Norway and American Edward Prescott -- colleagues since the 1970s -- learned Monday they had won the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics.
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Finn Kydland of Norway and Edward Prescott of the United States won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that laid the groundwork for
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BEAVER CREEK, United States  - Norwegian Lasse Kjus won a men&#39;s World Cup giant slalom ahead of Austrians Hermann Maier and Benjamin Raich.
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Americans Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves took the top two spots in the marquee event of the Alpine world championships, the men's downhill.