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#Videocrux - Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
The US President said he is "humbled" by the honor, upon learning the news at 6am on Friday morning at the White House. The Nobel committee announced that he was given the coveted award because "Only 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".
Obama rewarded for vision of nuclear-free world
At 48 years-old, the first African American elected to the White House, US President Barack Obama, has been awarded one of the most prestigious prizes on earth. During the UN general assembly in September, President Obama told the international audience of diplomats and world leaders that he supports a world free of nuclear weapons. The comittee cited this vision, along with his efforts at improving multilateral diplomacy and encouraging action on climate change. After less than 9 months in office, the American president has already worked to ease relations between the US and the Muslim world. But this unanimous decision by the Norwegian Nobel committee is also a reminder that the US still has troops in Iraq, and that in the coming months President Obama will have to decide whether to follow requests from his generals and boosting US troops to wage war in Afghanistan.
Barack Obama is 3rd US president to win noble prize
Barack Obama is the third sitting US president to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In recent years the prize has gone to former president Jimmy Carter in 2002 and former Vice President Al Gore in 2007. The award ceremony will be held on December 10, in Oslo.

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