Activist Malala Yousafzai has said she is "so excited" after gaining a place at the University of Oxford.

Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai was greeted with cheers by dozens of young women in north-eastern Nigeria, where she spoke out for the many girls abducted under Boko Haram's deadly insurgency.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has been made a UN Messenger of Peace.

US secretary of state John Kerry has warned of the risk to the peace process if there are changes to the border with the Republic on the back of Brexit.

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai spent her 19th birthday visiting the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya to draw attention to the global refugee crisis, especially as Dadaab camp faces pressure to close after 25 years.

Barbara Scully meets Laura Bates, author of ‘Girl Up’, a guide for girls, young women, and parents, on modern-day sexism and its insidious nature. The book has advice on how to counter the training all girls get in how not to use their voices

Malala Yousafzai has condemned the “senseless killing” in her birth country Pakistan after a terrorist bombing left at least 70 dead on Easter Sunday.

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The eurozone summit has reached a unanimous agreement on the Greek bailout; A Co Laois community is grief-stricken after three friends died in a horror crash over the weekend; Minister Alex White has defended the new national postcode system as accurate, despite a number of complaints. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com

Last week in Oslo, Malala Yousafzai announced to the world that she no longer wanted presents or wishes for her birthday - she wanted action.

A water tank featured on both the higher and ordinary level Junior Certificate maths exam.

United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has said Ireland has sent a message to the world with its overwhelming support for gay marriage.

The fear is that if we are to vote a majority yes today ... we could end up with a mere child in the Áras, writes Alison O’ Connor

On the first anniversary of the kidnapping by Islamic extremists of hundreds of girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, president-elect Muhammadu Buhari said he cannot promise to find the 219 who are still missing.

Ban Ki-moon is to be awarded an international peace prize for his role in tackling climate change, global conflicts and natural disasters, it has been announced.

Girls in at least 70 countries have faced threats, violent attacks and other abuse for trying to go to school over the past five years, the UN human rights office has revealed. A report by the Geneva-based body noted that, despite some progress, girls still face difficulty getting an education in many countries around the world.

Nobel prizewinner Malala Yousafzai has called on world leaders to do more to free hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped 300 days ago.

Taliban claim attack that targeted military school in Pakistan

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai yesterday offered hope that her prize will inspire young girls around the world to fight for their rights — and to step forward to lead.

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi have received the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives to fight for children’s rights.

One of the Kinsale schoolgirls recently listed by Time magazine as one of the world’s most influential teenagers has called for an overhaul of the examination system.

CHRISTINE Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, recently warned that the world risks a new “mediocre normal” of slower growth. She is not alone in her concern.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has donated US$50,000 to rebuild a United Nations school in Gaza which was damaged during this summer’s Israel-Hamas war, the UN said.

A Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in the country’s capital was shot dead yesterday, and gunfire then erupted inside Parliament, authorities said.

A gunman shot and wounded a Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in Ottawa, then entered parliament, where numerous shots rang out, police and witnesses said.

Three schoolgirls from Kinsale have been listed by Time magazine as among the 25 Most Influential Teens of the Year.

Three students from Cork have made it into Time Magazine's list of the top 25 most influential teenagers in the world.

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Malala Yousafzai was interrupted by her chemistry class teacher to be told she was the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Children’s rights activists Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India and have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Some 10 militants suspected of involvement in an attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai have been arrested, Pakistan’s army says.

A new play shows how the suffragettes still have relevance for many women today, writes Colette Sheridan

Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, has pledged while on a trip to Nigeria to help free a group of schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants.

A former US diplomat honoured with an international peace award for his ill-fated efforts to secure political agreement in the North has said he would willingly give it up in exchange for the deal he strived for.

In the morning, most Junior Certificate students faced into their Irish papers, although it was the first of two for higher level candidates.

A Pakistani university has cancelled a ceremony launching a book by the teenage activist shot by the Taliban over security concerns.

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai was awarded the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize yesterday in recognition of her crusade for the right of all children, girls and boys, to an education.