Nobel Peace Prize: LIVE REPORT

11:45 GMT - AFP IS CLOSING THIS LIVE REPORT - after Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi were named joint winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. Yousafzai, 17, is now the youngest person to win the award, and the first Pakistani-born winner. Both winners campaign for children's rights, and the Nobel Committee said it had picked a Pakistani and an Indian, a Muslim and a Hindu, as co-winners to underscore the spirit of "fraternity of nations" in which the prize was founded. 11:36 GMT - Malala to speak after school - Even winning the Nobel Peace Prize will not interrupt education activist Malala's school day. She plans to make a statement after lessons end at about 1530 GMT. 11:30 GMT - Satyarthi-Yousafzai team? - "I am definitely going to congratulate her (his fellow prize winner). The two of us have to work together. I know her personally, let us join hands for that (peace)," Satyarthi told reporters in India. 11:24 GMT - Poverty no excuse - Satyarthi says poverty is no excuse for child labour. "I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty if children are deprived of education. They remain poor," he told reporters. For more on Satyarthi, click here 11:20 GMT - From engineer to activist - "I came to know of the prize through the media, it was a surprise for me," he told Indian television reporters. "Somebody had to do it, I was not born to remain an engineer, my family wanted to make me an engineer." 11:19 GMT - Satyarthi's story - Satyarthi has said his social conscience was awoken when he was six and noticed a boy his age on the steps outside the school with his father, cleaning shoes. Seeing many such children working instead of being educated, he felt an urge as he grew older to solve the problem -- launching him on his career of activism. - Satyarthi's surprise - 11:13 GMT - Malala for Pakistan PM? - The 17-year-old has also published an autobiography and been invited to tea with Queen Elizabeth II, achieving a level of fame more like that of a movie star than an education campaigner. She has even loftier ambitions, and one day wants to become prime minister of Pakistan to "save" her country. For more on Malala, click here. 11:11 GMT - 'Who is Malala?' - She had already been in the public eye for years when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus on October 9, 2012, asked "Who is Malala?", and shot her in the head. Two other students were wounded in the incident. She has since become something of an international star -- a formidable, and instantly recognisable campaigner for rights. She received a standing ovation in July 2013 for an address to the United Nations General Assembly in which she vowed she would never be silenced. 11:06 GMT - Youthful campaigner - At her father's encouragement, Malala started writing a blog for the BBC's Urdu service under a pseudonym in 2009, aged just 11, about life under the Taliban in Swat, where they were banning girls' education. She became well known in Pakistan, however, attracting the ire of Islamist militants, who had taken control of the area. Opponents were murdered, people were publicly flogged for supposed breaches of sharia law, women were banned from going to market, and girls were stopped from going to school. - Malala's story - 11:01 GMT - More from Barroso - "And we are delighted for Kailash Satyarthi, who staunchly has advocated children' rights across the globe. As the first donor of development aid worldwide, the EU and its member states have constantly worked to root out poverty, one of the prime causes of child labour." 10:57 GMT - Barroso congratulates winners - "We are delighted for Malala, who so courageously stood up for her rights and paid a high price for something that many in our countries take for granted. But we cannot forget the millions of other children around the world who are denied their right to education. This is a victory for all of them. Young boys and girls who aspire to learning," Barroso said in a statement. 10:52 GMT - Amnesty hails winners - "The work of Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai represents the struggle of millions of children around the world," rights group Amnesty International said in a statement. "This is an award for human rights defenders who are willing to dedicate themselves entirely to promoting education and the rights of the world's most vulnerable children." 10:50 GMT - British deputy PM on winners - "Thoroughly deserved Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai. Excellent day for children's rights and education." 10:44 GMT - Schoolgirl Malala - Malala attends Edgbaston High School, a private school in an upmarket part of Birmingham. After being shot by the Taliban in October 2012, Malala was treated at a hospital in the city. She started at her school in March last year. 10:39 GMT - Imran Khan congratulates Malala - Prominent Pakistani politician and former star cricketer Imran Khan tweeted: "Want 2 congratulate Malala on Nobel Peace Prize. Proud as Pakistani 4 her Nobel prize, esp 4 cause of Education which must b r nat priority." 10:34 GMT - Satyarthi - quiet engineer - Satyarthi was trained as an electrical engineer, and went on to found the Bachpan Bachao Andolan or Save the Childhood Movement in 1980. He lives modestly and keeps a low profile except for his causes. His organisation campaigns against bonded labour, in which families often borrow money and have to work until the funds can be repaid. But often the money is too much to be paid back from meagre earnings and people are sold and resold. 10:26 GMT - 'Fraternity between nations' - "The struggle against suppression and for the rights of children and adolescents contributes to the realisation of the 'fraternity between nations' that Alfred Nobel mentions in his will as one of the criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize," the Nobel Committee said in a statement. 10:22 GMT - Pakistani, Indian winners - The Nobel Committee says making an Indian and a Pakistani co-winners of the peace prize was an "important point". India and Pakistan have long had tense relations, with frequent cross-border military skirmishes. "The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism." 10:21 GMT - Nobel committee on Satyarthi - "Showing great personal courage, Kailash Satyarthi, maintaining Gandhi's tradition, has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain." 10:11 GMT - Malala at the UN - Malala told the UN that the Taliban had "failed" in her first public speech, in July 2013, and that she would not be silenced by terrorist threats. The link to the AFP video of the speech is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spD5-wgNvzs 10:03 GMT - 'Life-long work' - More from Brown, who now works as the UN Special Envoy for Global Education. "Kailash’s life-long work in India fighting child labour, which I have had the privilege to see at first hand, complements Malala’s work standing up for girls’ rights to education from Pakistan to the rest of the world. "Both are members of the emergency coalition for global education that Graca Machel, Nelson Mandela’s widow and I have the honour of chairing and their deep-seated commitment to children’s rights will ensure that no injustice can last forever." 10:02 GMT - International girl day - Malala's prize comes a day before the UN's International Day of the Girl Child, declared to 'recognise girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world'. 09:54 GMT - Ex-UK PM Brown hails Malala - Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, who has worked closely with Malala on promoting education for girls, praises the two winners. "Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi are the world’s greatest children’s champions," he says. "They are two of my best friends and two of the greatest global campaigners who deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for their courage, determination and for their vision that no child should ever be left behind and that every child should have the best of chances." 09:48 GMT - Satyarthi speaks - Satyarthi says he is "delighted" with his prize, calling it "recognition of our fight for child rights". Kailash, 60, also thanked the Nobel committee for "recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age", according to the Press Trust of India news agency. 09:45 GMT - Another Nobel record - As well as being the youngest winner, Yousafzai is also the youngest Nobel laureate in all categories. The next youngest winner is Lawrence Bragg, who was 25 at the time of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915. 09:40 GMT - New Nobel record - Seventeen-year-old Yousafzai is the new youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, displacing Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkol Karman, who won the prize in 2011 at the age of 32. - Youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner - 09:38 GMT - Proud Pakistan PM - Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has congratulated teenage education campaigner Malala Yousafzai, calling her the "pride" of his country. "She is (the) pride of Pakistan. She has made her countrymen proud. Her achievement is unparallelled and unequalled. Girls and boys of the world should take the lead from her struggle and commitment," he said in a statement. 09:36 GMT - Satyarthi on child labour - Satyarthi started to organise an international movement against child labour in 1989. His movement is a combination of about 2,000 social groups and union organisations in 140 countries. "If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery," Satyarthi has said. 09:31 GMT - 'Pride of Pakistan' - Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif calls Yousafzai "pride of Pakistan". 09:28 GMT - More on Satyarthi - Kailash Satyarthi has helped tens of thousands of children in India, forced into slavery by businessmen, land-owners and others, gain freedom. Born on January 11, 1954, Satyarti, who heads the Global March Against Child Labour, staged raids on factories where families including children often work as bonded labour. 09:20 GMT - Children's rights focus - The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it had awarded the prize to two children's rights activists because peaceful global development can only come about if children and the young are respected. "Children must go to school and not be financially exploited," the committee said. "In conflict-ridden areas in particular, the violation of children leads to the continuation of violence from generation to generation." 09:15 GMT - More on Malala - Malala rose to fame as an activist for children's education after Taliban militants shot her in the head on a school bus in Pakistan in 2010. Malala recovered from her horrific injuries and went on to earn international plaudits for her courageous and determined fight for all children to have the right to go to school. 09:12 GMT - Kailash Satyarthi - Childrens' rights activist Satyarthi is the eighth Nobel laureate born in India. 09:10 GMT - Malala at school - A spokeswoman for Malala, the first Nobel laureate born in Pakistan, said she is at school as normal today. 08:59 GMT - PAKISTAN'S MALALA YOUSAFZAI AND INDIA'S KAILASH SATYARTHI JOINT WINNERS OF 2014 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE - Winners announced - 08:55 GMT - Prize for pope? - Pope Francis is one of the most talked about candidates for the prize for speaking out against poverty. 08:52 GMT - Spotlight on Tunisia - Tunisia's powerful UGTT worker's union was nominated for its role in Tunisia's democratic transition, one of the few bright spots remaining from the Arab Spring. The union brokered political negotiations that resulted in a post-revolution constitution being signed. 08:49 GMT - Minutes to go - Nobel Peace Prize winner to be named within minutes, journalists and organisers milling around a spotlit lectern for the announcement 08:43 GMT - Sexual violence - One nominee is Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynaecologist, for his work to counter sexual violence. Antoine Nfundiko, medical chief of staff at the Panzi hospital Mukwege founded to treat rape victims, told AFP: "You know, when for several years you're among the nominees but without success, you're discouraged. Today if he wins, we will celebrate with his colleagues, family, the whole population, and why not, the whole continent." 08:37 GMT - Average age 62 - * The average age of all Nobel Peace laureates between 1901 and 2012 is 62 years * Of the 101 individuals awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 15 are women * The Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho, awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is the only person who has declined the Nobel Peace Prize 08:32 GMT - 94 prizes since 1901 - * Some years a prize is not awarded if the Nobel committee decides there are no nominees who make the grade * 64 Peace Prizes have been given to one Laureate only. 28 Peace Prizes have been shared by two Laureates. Two Peace Prizes have been shared between three people - Nobel Facts - 08:16 GMT - Some previous winners - 2013: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons 2012: The European Union 2011: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkol Karman 2010: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo 2009: US President Barack Obama 08:09 GMT - Anticipation builds... - Official Nobel website has giant countdown ticker as its banner: 50:00 mins to go. 08:00 GMT - No leaks? - The names of winners have apparently been leaked in previous years, with some media getting ahead of the official announcement by up to an hour. However, AFP reporter in Oslo Pierre-Henry Deshayes says the Nobel committee has tightened the bolts this year. 07:52 GMT - Unsung heroine - Not all nominees are famous names. Among them are 90-year-old obstetrician/gynaecologist Catherine Hamlin, an Australian nominated by the Ethopian government for treating women in Ethiopia for more than 50 years. 07:44 GMT - Controversial contenders - Some of those being tipped for the award could stir controversy, such as Edward Snowden, the former intelligence analyst who enraged US authorities when he revealed the extent of US global eavesdropping. Another candidate that could ruffle feathers is pro-democracy Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. 07:34 GMT - Diverse candidate list - Among the candidates tipped for possible Nobel glory are a Russian opposition newspaper, Tunisia's democratic leadership, Pakistan schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai and Pope Francis. 07:32 GMT - LIVE REPORT - Hello and welcome to AFP's LIVE REPORT on the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, for which there are a record number of candidates and no clear frontrunner.