The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to María Corina Machado.
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, 25, was a producer on "Stranger at the Gate," a nominee for short documentary film.
A University of Chicago professor and former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, who put his academic expertise on the Great Depression to work reviving the American economy after the 2007-2008 financial crisis, won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences.
The Nobel Peace Prize was given to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski and two human rights groups, Memorial, from Russia, and Center for Civil Liberties.
The nomination came from the Norwegian parliament, citing that the movement brought a "new awareness to the issue of racial justice."
The winner couldn't be reached, so his neighbor walked over his house and gave him the news at 2:15 a.m.