US economist Richard Thaler wins the Nobel Economics Prize for his pioneering work bridging the gap between economics and psychology.

British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" and whose emotional uprooting from his native Japan has left an indelible stamp on his work, wins the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize.

Scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson win the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy which simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules.

US scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne win the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for their pioneering role in the detection of gravitational waves, prize organisers say.