Schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai has said she is "honoured" after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for the championing of girls' rights.
The Pakistani schoolgirl said a teacher told her she had won the prize while in a chemistry lesson at school.
And she she said she completed the rest of her school day after learning she had won the accolade.
"When I found I had won the Nobel Peace Prize I decided I would not leave my school, rather I would finish my school time," she said.
"I went to the physics lessons, I learned. I went to the English lesson. I considered it like a normal day.
"I was really happy with the response of my teachers and my fellow students. They were all saying they were proud."
The teenager said it was "quite difficult" to express her feelings but she felt "really honoured".
She added: "I felt more powerful and more courageous because this award is not just a piece of metal or a medal you wear or an award you keep in your room.
"This is encouragement for me to go forward."
Malala came to prominence after surviving an assassination attempt in October 2012 when her calls for equal rights angered militants in her homeland of Pakistan.
She said that her dream at the time she was shot was to become a doctor, but that now she had decided to become "a politician, a good politician".
The 17-year-old activist was jointly awarded the peace prize with Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi for her "heroic struggle" in favour of girls' access to education.
Speaking after finishing the school day at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham, she said: "My message to children all around the world is that they should stand up for their rights."
Explaining why she had campaigned against extremism despite the risks, she said: "At that time I stood up for my rights and I said 'I will speak up'. I did not wait for someone else.
"I had really two options, one was not to speak and wait to be killed, and the second was to speak up and then be killed.
"And I chose the second one because at that time there was terrorism, women were not allowed to go outside of their houses, girls' education was totally banned, people were killed.
"At that time I needed to raise my voice because I wanted to go back to school. I was also one of those girls who could not get education.
"I wanted to learn and be who I can be in my future."
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