30 October 2014: Malala for World Children Prize

• Champion for girls’ rights Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in history, won the World’s Children’s Prize on , after a global vote involving millions of children. Nobody has ever received the Nobel Peace Prize and the World’s Children’s Prize, often dubbed the ‘Children’s Nobel Prize’ by the media, in the same year. The award was created in 2000 and is part a worldwide educational programme in which children learn about global issues, democracy and their own rights. The programme finishes with a global vote. This year’s honorary awards went to former Microsoft executive John Wood, founder of the Room to Read literacy group, and Indira Ranamagar from Nepal, for her work for the children of prisoners. Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel, Anne Frank and Kofi Annan have previously been honoured in the awards. Malala received the prize at a ceremony in Mariestad near Stockholm. This year’s laureates will share $100,000 to be used in their work for children’s rights. 

• An unmanned cargo rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded seconds after liftoff. The Antares rocket, carrying 5,055 pounds of supplies, science experiments and equipment, lifted off on schedule at 6.22 p.m. Eastern time from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia. No issues came up during the countdown. Orbital, a company based in Dulles, Virginia, first launched a 14-storey-tall Antares rocket on its maiden flight in April last year. It then conducted a demonstration flight to the space station to show NASA the capabilities of the rocket and the cargo spacecraft.