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A British, a Russian and a Chinese novelist are vying for the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers. The Pounds 10, 000 award, launched last year as part of the [...]

Henley Management College in the UK has won the Queen's Award for Enterprise for its success in exporting management education around the world. The award recognises organisations that have shown [...]

The head of the UK's largest train operator, a couple of fuel cell engineers and the founder of a business selling residential wind turbines are among the regional finalists in [...]

The Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha was named on Monday as recipient of the 2006 Pritzker Prize, architecture's richest (Dollars 100,000) and most prestigious award. The news was released [...]

Nurses and therapists 2.5% Most hospital doctors 2.2% Senior civil servants 3%(range 0% to 9%) Judges 3.4%(range 2% to 6.4%) Senior military officers 3% Prison officers 1.6% MPs and ministers [...]

Robert Adams won the Deutsche Borse photography prize last week. There is nothing in the least wrong with that. It is good when these prizes recognise proper talent, and Adams [...]

From Mr Nico Macdonald. Sir, The reward for good designers should, of course, be seeing their designs make people's lives better ('The best design does not need to shout about [...]

John Barrow, a cosmologist at Cambridge University, has won the Pounds 795,000 Templeton Prize, the world's most valuable annual award to an individual. Endowed by the financier Sir John Templeton, [...]

The film industry is not the only one to host a glitzy, self-congratulatory awards show of late. Three days before the Oscars, members of the public relations industry gathered for [...]

The longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 was announced yesterday. The 20 books for the women- only award include On Beauty by Zadie Smith, The Night Watch by [...]

The Oscar awarded to Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit for best animated feature film is a boost not only for Nick Park, the film's creator, but also [...]

Goldman Sachs dominated the 2006 PAM Awards for wealth management, which highlighted the growing muscle of international companies in the UK. Ten out of 11 awards went to foreign companies, [...]

NEW YORK -- This weekend's Academy Awards ceremony will celebrate a cast of film characters that challenged America's notions of sexuality, global politics and race, from gay cowboys to a [...]

The Fairtrade hallmark best known for coffee and chocolate has taken on an ambitious new challenge: the rag trade. The garment industry would be a spectacular and symbolic prize for [...]

Successful business leaders have less than a month to enter this year's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Entries are invited from owner-managers of private businesses, heads of [...]

Manchester United fans must be wondering how it came to this. Seven years ago the League Cup was the only competition United entered that they failed to win, and nobody [...]

Stories of rapid profitable growth, innovation and aggressive expansion are highlighted today as Europe's most dynamic companies show in the Best of European Business Awards how they can burst free [...]

Oh no. They did it again. A bare year on from the last Bear gala, the Berlin Film Festival presented its top award to another scarcely seen, scarcely tipped movie. [...]

The Department of Trade and Industry has launched its 2006 award for the most enterprising place in the UK. The competition is open to towns, cities, communities, educational programmes as [...]

The table centrepiece, for once, was not floral. It was a tall glass vase, a lighted candle within, engraved with the logo and date of the Bank of the Year [...]

NBC walked away with two television Golden Globes at last week's awards ceremony, with Steve Carell and Hugh Laurie scooping accolades for their performances in The Office and House - [...]

LONDON -- The derivatives trader at the centre of an inquiry by Deutsche Bank into a suspected Pounds 30m overstatement of his trading position was a high-flying prize winner at [...]

Women behind the drive towards ethical businessare being invited to enter a new award sponsored by Triodos Bank and Eve magazine. The Women in Ethical Business Awards aims to celebrate [...]

Ali Smith's The Accidental, the author's first full-length novel, is the winner of this year's Whitbread Novel Award, beating works by her more illustrious rivals Salman Rushdie and Nick Hornby [...]

At first it looked as if I would never get to have lunch with Thomas Schelling, this year's winner of the Nobel prize for economics. When I first tried to [...]

The Turner Prize for 2005, the UK's leading contemporary art prize, was awarded last night to 38-year-old Simon Starling, who lives and works in Glasgow. He was one of four [...]

O, the mobile phone operator, and Grazia magazine have launched what they claim is the first regional business award aimed specifically at women. The Grazia O Business Woman of the [...]

Awards rock. Your heart skips a beat as the lady in the spangly frock (wasn't she on Animal Hospital years ago?) pauses for dramatic effect. Then announces your name! You [...]

Thomas Friedman has a vision for the final edition of The World is Flat: anybody will be able to update it. 'It's been suggested to me that we actually turn [...]

You can read a lot into paint. Take French grey - the signature shade of our time. The Noughties has chosen this hue as the grave, elegant background to the [...]

It was a defining moment for the frequently adversarial relationship between politics and art: the day in 2002 that Kim Howells, then culture minister, denounced the Turner prize shortlist as [...]

The head of the body that distributes lottery money to good causes has defended awards to projects typically funded by taxpayers. Mike O'Connor, head of the UK Lottery Forum, said [...]

The European Union's top human rights award, the Sakharov prize, fell victim yesterday to a typical European parliament political fudge. A deep and seemingly intractable split developed between the three [...]

Glasses Direct, the online optician that sells spectacles at a discount to high street prices, has been namedNat West Business of the Year in the annual Start-ups Awards. The company, [...]

Time is running out for entries to this year's prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise, given to companies and individuals for outstanding achievements in international trade, innovation or sustainable development. Any [...]

There is a refreshing eclecticism about this year's Turner prize exhibition at Tate Britain, which opens today. The four short-listed artists represent a diverse range of practices: there is sculpture, [...]

The Scottish Parliament, one of the most controversial - and one of the truly great - buildings of recent years, has won British architecture's most important award, the Royal Institute [...]

From Mr Tim Lee. Sir, John Sutherland bewails the difficulties of judging the winner of the Man Booker Prize because of the subjectivity of the exercise ('Novel Solutions', October 8). [...]

A library, a car factory, a children's centre and the notoriously costly Scottish parliament are among the buildings fighting it out for this year's Stirling prize for architecture, which will [...]

The Nobel prize for economics was awarded yesterday to Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann for their individual contributions to the understanding of conflict and co-operation. Both were pioneers in 'game [...]

LONDON and BRUSSELS -- Mohamed ElBaradeilearned of his good fortune as winner of the 2005 NobelPeace Prize while watching the ceremony on television yesterday morning. He had not received the [...]

Giving this year's Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director-general, Mohamed ElBaradei, for their efforts to stop the spread of atomic weapons might seem odd [...]

Two Americans and a Frenchman won the Nobel chemistry prize yesterday, for developing an important technique to synthesise organic compounds. Over the past decade their 'metathesis' reaction has become widely [...]

Two Americans and a Ger-man won the Nobel physics prize yesterday for their research on light. Their work has applications in satellite navigation, tele-communications and time-keeping. The oldest scientist thus [...]

LONDON -- Two Australians won the Nobel prize for medicine yesterday for discovering that bacteria - rather than stress and poor diet - cause peptic ulcers. Working at Royal Perth [...]

Towards the end of his speech at the inaugural British Curry Awards Dinner last week, Enam Ali - owner of Le Raj restaurant in Epsom, editor of Spice, a curry [...]

Just over a week from now, the annual Nobel Prize season will kick off with the announcement of the winner of the prize for 'physiology or medicine'. The glory of [...]

From Henri Brandman & Co. Sir, An article in the Sport section of the Financial Times and on the FT.com website on September 24 referred to Birmingham City football club's [...]

Ashley Willing has an outlook not unlike Warren Buffett: if he doesn't understand it, he doesn't invest in it. He keeps his portfolios small so that he knows the companies [...]

Artemis's table-topping performance, with three of its managers making the Citywire BrainsTrust list, is the more impressive given that this comprises a quarter of the firm's total roster of 12 [...]