Malala Yousafzai to receive Nobel Peace Prize

Malala Yousafzai, the global icon of children's rights who survived a near fatal Taliban gun attack, becomes the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate on Wednesday, adding yet another distinction to a long list.
      
The 17-year-old Pakistani will receive the peace prize in Oslo with the Indian campaigner Kailash Satyarthi, 60, who has fought for 35 years to free thousands of children from virtual slave labour.
      
Malala has already received a host of awards, standing ovations and plaudits from the United Nations to Buckingham Palace.
      
But on the eve of the ceremony she said she was far from ready to rest on her laurels.
      
"We are not here just to accept our award, get this medal and go back home. We are here to tell children especially that you need to stand up, you need to speak up for your rights ... It is you who can change the world," Malala told a press conference at the Nobel Institute in Oslo.
                      
"In this world if we are thinking we are modern and have achieved so much development, then why is it that there are so many countries where children are not asking for any iPad or computer or anything. What they are asking for is just a book, just a pen, so why can't we do that?"       

Malala was 15 when a Taliban gunman shot her in the head as she travelled on a school bus in response to her campaign for girls' education.
      
Although her injuries almost killed her, she recovered after being flown for extensive surgery in Birmingham, central England.
      
She has been based in England with her family ever since, continuing both her education and activism.
      
For the first time ever the blood-soaked school uniform she wore when she was shot...