{UAH} BABOONS, MALALA IS 18 TODAY

Malala turns 18: the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner - in 60 seconds

As Malala Yousafzai celebrates her 18th birthday, we look back at the achievements that have made the teenager famous

By Sophie Jamieson, video by Kat Hayes

10:32AM BST 12 Jul 2015

Today Malala Yousafzai celebrates her 18th birthday. At an age when young people are usually just beginning to figure out what they want from life, the education activist has achieved more than most will in a lifetime.

Last year she became the youngest ever Nobel laureate when she collected the prize for peace jointly with Kailash Satyarthi from India for campaigning for universal education.

Ahead of her landmark birthday the teenager, who was shot by the Taliban aged 15, continued her activism, calling for world leaders to aim higher on children's education.

In a speech last week at the Oslo Education Summit, she urged world leaders to set goals that were "worth working for".

^{Malala meets a determined schoolgirl, Mezon Almellehan, in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan (TANYA MALOTT)}

In her address, she spoke about the importance of funding secondary education for all the world's children, calling it "the education they need to succeed in the modern world".

Writing in the Telegraph ahead of the address, Malala said: "I've just finished another year of school and will turn 18 next week. Your prayers and your love is what has made my story unique."

She launched her new slogan, "books not bullets", arguing that the 39 billion US dollars (£25 billion) of extra money needed to fund free education worldwide "represents what world governments spend on their militaries in just eight days".

In her speech in Oslo, Malala, who has made Birmingham her home since the gun attack, said: "I am turning 18 on the 12th of July and my life of being a child will come to an end.

"But there is something that I have learnt from being a child that I will never forget and would carry on even in my adulthood, that is to dream. In fact to dream big, without limit.

"My message today is very simple to our leaders: be a child for a moment, dream with no limit, and dream bigger, this is the only way you can achieve bigger."

Watch the video above to find out more about Malala.

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"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower

"But this I know, UPC believed and still believes in

very high education. We can call Obote all bad names we have, but the bottom line remains that he got more scholarships for Buganda than all previous Uganda leaders combined. That includes Sir Edward Mutesa, President Lule, President Binayisa, up to and into Ssabasajja Mutebi. Who all happen to be Baganda leaders." Mulindwa

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