61.   Last Thursday, the literature prize went to Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

62.   Last Thursday, the literature prize went to Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago.

63.   Last year, the Northern Ireland peace process was at a key junction and prize went to Protestant David Trimble and Catholic John Hume.

64.   Last year, the Northern Ireland peace process was at a key junction and the prize went to Protestant David Trimble and Catholic John Hume.

65.   Other top prizes went to films from France, Russia, Hong Kong and China.

66.   Rarely does a Nobel science prize go for research with such immediate, political consequences.

67.   Second prize went to Albrecht Breuninger of Germany and Kristof Barati of Hungary came third.

68.   Second prize went to Laura Mikkola of Finland.

69.   Second prize went to laboratory technologist Kalsom Ibrahim from Klang, Selangor, while teacher Mohd Zolkifli Abdul Hamid from Kota Tinggi, Johor, won the third prize.

70.   Sometimes the prize has gone to writers who were popular and accomplished, but clearly not titanic, such as Pearl Buck, Sinclair Lewis and John Galsworthy.