Nobel Peace Prize 2013: as it happened 10.26 Commenting on the award, the committee panel said: "The conventions and the work of the OPCW have defined the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law. 10.22 The decision to award the weapons watchdog has put Syria back in the spotlight. Many hundreds were killed in a chemical attack in war-torn Syria back in August. Children, affected by what activists said at the time was a gas attack, breathe through oxygen masks in the Damascus suburb of Saqba in late August 10.20 We have a correspondent down in Malala's home town of Mingora. Ashfaq Yousufzai says there is much disappointment among pupils at the teenager's former school. All her friends wanted to see her winning the award. Yasmin Begum, a student at the Khushal Public School said. I don't believe my ears, because I was confident after everything she'd been to that she would get the prestigious prize. 10.16 Well, an organisation has (well-deservedly) won the award. Many people are tweeting at their disappointment thought that it wasn't won by Malala, who was widely tipped to take it. However, many believed she was too young for the award. Here is some reaction from Pakistan: 10.10 Our foreign affairs correspondent Damien McElroy writes that the organisation has overseen a historically successful drive to destroy chemical weapons stockpiles but languished in obscurity until launching a dramatic mission to Syria earlier this year. The Hague-based body employs technical experts and highly-skilled specialists to inspect and destroy the arsenals of its 189 members. It is the embodiment of a grounbreaking international law adopted in 1925 to prohibit the use of deadly weapons of mass destruction. The decision to award the Nobel prize to the body is as much as anything a tribute to the role of Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom. Mr Sellstrom was the chief inspector of Unscom, the special commission set up after the Gulf War in the early 1990s and this year took a team to Syria to carry out inspections of suspected chemical weapons use in that country's civil war. 10.03 It has been confirmed in Oslo: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize (L-R) (OPCW) Malik Ellahi, political adviser to Director General Ahmet Uzumcu, External Relations Director and team leader Wang Ju, Declarations Branch head Nihad Alihodzic and Chemical Demilitarisation Branch head Dominique Anelli attend a news conference in The Hague 09.55 Five minutes to go until the announcement at Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. Quite a thought-provoking tweet here: 09.48 According to our own poll on who deserves the award, Malala is favourite. 60.16 per cent think the 16-year-old should win, 21.3 per cent think Dr Mukwege, 4.9 per cent think the three Russian activists should take it home, Claudia Paz y Paz, Guatemala's first woman Attorney General, has 2.54 per cent and Vladimir Putin has an astonishing 11 per cent. 09.45 The Norwegian broadcaster better be right, as someone has already put OPCW as the winners on WIkipedia.... 09.40 Arguably one of the most controversial nominees is Russian President Putin. A Russian advocacy group claims to have nominated the president for the peace prize because he "actively promotes settlement of all conflicts arising on the planet." Russian singer and MP Iosif Kobzon compared Putin to Barack Obama who won the award in 2009. He said: "'Our president, who tries to stop the bloodshed and who tries to help the conflict situation with political dialogue, is more worthy of this high title." 09.30 As reported earlier, the weapons wtchdog currently working in Syria could win. It would not be the first time an organisation has won.The Prize has been awarded 24 times to organisations between 1901 and 2012, including to UNHCR, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Committee of the Red Cross. 09.25 Take your bets quickly, here is Paddy Power's odds: Denis Mukwege (DRC doctor) - 4/5 Malala - 10/11 Mary Robinson - 25/1 Bradley Manning - 25/1 Bill Clinton - 33/1 Ban ki moon - 40/1 Helmut Kohl - 40/1 Wael Ghonim - 40/1 Edward Snowden - 50/1 Julian Assange - 50/1 Morgan Tsvangirai - 66/1 Facebook - 80/1 Bono - 100/1 Putin - 100/1 09.10 The channel speculated that the five-strong Committee was concerned that awarding the prize to Malala risked encouraging another assassination attempt from Islamic extremists, and that, at just 16 years' old, she might be too young to cope with the weight of the prize. Rob Crilly, our Pakistan correspondent, who last week visted Malala's hometown of Mingora, says: As the world waits to find out who will win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, terrorists in Pakistan say they will attack bookshops stocking Malala Yousafzai's new book The Pakistan Taliban has warned bookshops in Pakistan they will be attacked if they stock Malala Yousafzai's memoir. One year after the terrorist group's gunmen shot the 15-year-old activist in the head, she is the front runner to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which is due to be announced today. 09.05 The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is overseeing the destruction's of Syria's arsenal, has been named as the winner of the Nobel by a Norweigan broadcaster Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said the OPCW, which is overseeing the destruction's of Syria's arsenal, will win the prize. NRK has a strong track record reporting winners and last year announced that the EU would win an hour before the official statement. 09.00 It seems those most highly tipped to win at the moment are Malala Yousaf , the defiant 16-year-old Pakistani girl whose advocacy for education made her the target of a Taliban assassination, a Congolese surgeon who has been treating the female victims of war, and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Perhaps the lesser known, Dr Mukwege is the founder of Panzi, a hospital to help the tens of thousands of women raped by local and foreign militants, has been ooted as a possible laureate many times in recent years. The son of a Pentecostal minister, the 58-year-old has treated several thousands of women since the 1998 Congo's war, some of them more than once, performing up to 10 surgeries a day during his 18-hour working days. Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynaecological surgeon who has dedicated his life to helping rape victims 09.00 Welcome to our liveblog. As the world waits to hear the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, we cover the build up to the announcement, which is expected at 10am in the UK.