The United Nations and its Secretary General Mr Kofi Annan have won the centenary Nobel Peace Prize for battling everything from global poverty to terrorism.
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Mr Kofi Annan
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Mr Annan (63) has said he wants the United Nations to be the centre of a "global coalition against terrorism" and that suicide hijacker attacks on the United States last month in which about 5,600 people died "wounded an entire world."
The prize, named after Alfred Nobel, a Swedish philanthropist and inventor of dynamite, is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($946,200) and can be split up to three ways.
Other nominees included the International Committee of the Red Cross, the UN War Crimes tribunal, soccer's governing body FIFA, Pope John Paul II, the European Court of Human Rights and former US President Mr Jimmy Carter.