Record 259 nominations received for Nobel Peace Prize

Malala Yousafzai, Bradley Manning among those suggested

3/4/2013

OSLO, Norway — The Norwegian Nobel Committee says a record 259 nominations have been received for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, with publicly disclosed candidates including a Pakistani teenager shot by Taliban militants and a U.S. soldier accused of leaking classified material to WikiLeaks.

The secretive committee doesn't reveal who has been nominated, but those with nomination rights sometimes announce their picks. This year those include Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private who has admitted sending classified documents to WikiLeaks and 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai who was shot in the head by Taliban militants while on her way home from school in Pakistan.

Fifty of the nominations were for organizations, the committee said today. The previous record of 241 nominations was in 2011.

The winner of this year's prize will be announced in October.