United States President Barrack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Nobel Committee said in Oslo on Friday.
Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January. He scored another first of sorts by winning the Nobel Peace Prize while just a few months in office.
Barack Hussein Obama was born on 4th August, 1961 is the 44th and current President of the United States.
He is the first African American to hold the office, as well as the first born in Hawaii.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama is the third sitting U.S. President to be awarded the prize, following Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won in 2002.
The prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) will be handed over in Oslo on 10th December.
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