SAYING that war is always evil, former US President Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday and urged the world to accept UN leadership in tackling challenges from the Middle East to global poverty.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter today urged people everywhere to work for peace in a world that has become “a more dangerous place”.

FORMER US President Jimmy Carter has won the Nobel Peace Prize for his peace mediation efforts and promotion of human rights.

THE irony of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to former US Democrat president Jimmy Carter will not be lost on the party’s current representatives in Congress, who have shifted their position on Iraq to now row in behind President Bush.