and Mother Teresa (1979), but some recipients have proven more controversial than others. When the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Barack Obama, many commentators questioned the choice ...

Mother Teresa, although of Albanian descent, became synonymous with India due to her humanitarian work in Kolkata. She was ...

which had already given Mother Teresa its highest honour, Bharat Ratan, in 1980 -- one year after she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Calcutta has been "orphaned" "Though she was a world citizen ...

The prizes in physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics will ... by joining the pantheon of Nobel laureates, from Albert Einstein to Mother Teresa. But two winners refused their Nobel ...