Barack Obama wins Nobel Prize for Peace

US president Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee said the leader of Americans won it for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".
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The committee highlighted Mr Obama's efforts to support international bodies and promote nuclear disarmament.
Obama's spokesman said the president was "humbled" to have won the prize. He said he woke Mr Obama up when he called with the news early on Friday.
The committee "attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons." But it also mentioned the UN, climate change and the "strengthening" of democracy and human rights.
"Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said in a citation.




















































