Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus waves next to the flame of peace at a ceremony with children in Oslo, Norway, Sunday Dec. 10, 2006. Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in an elaborate ceremony in Oslo City Hall on Sunday. the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert was to be held in Oslo Monday Dec. 11, 2006.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, right, receives his medal and diploma from Nobel Committee Chairman Ole Danbolt Mjoes at City Hall in Oslo, Norway Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006. Yunus said he hoped the award would inspire "bold initiatives" to fight poverty and eradicate the root causes of terrorism.
Nobel Peace Prize winners Muhammad Yunus, second from right, and Grameen Bank representative Mosammat Taslima Begum, far right watch a traditional Bangladeshi performance at City Hall in Oslo, Norway Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006. Yunus said the prize has given momentum to his cherished program of helping the poor through small loans, bringing him a flood of e-mails and invitations to meet with world leaders.
Nobel Peace Prize winners Muhammad Yunus, right, and Grameen Bank representative Mosammat Taslima Begum display their medals and diplomas at City Hall in Oslo, Norway Sunday Dec. 10, 2006.
Actress Sharon Stone attends the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Muhammad Yunus at City Hall in Oslo, Norway Sunday Dec. 10, 2006. Stone will the host of the annual concert along with Angelica Huston. Man at left is unidentified.
Actress Anjelica Huston attends the ceremony for Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus at City Hall in Oslo, Norway Sunday Dec. 10, 2006. Huston will host the annual concert for the winner along with Sharon Stone.
A general view of Stockholm City Hall as 1,300 guests, including the Nobel Prize winners and the Swedish Royal family attended the Nobel banquet Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006. Economist Muhammad Yunus accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his breakthrough program to lift the poor through tiny loans, saying he hoped the award would inspire "bold initiatives" to eradicate a problem at the root of terrorism.
The Swedish Royal Family, King Carl Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Princesses Victoria and Madeleine arrive with their guests of honor at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm City Hall in Stockholm, Sweden Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006.
From left, members of the Swedish royal family, Princess Lilian, King Carl Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria applaud during the 2006 Nobel Prize ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006.
From right, Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Princess Madeleine and Nobel Prize laureate in physics George F. Smoot pictured at the table of honor during the Nobel banquet in the Stockholm City Hall. About 1,300 guests, including the Nobel Prize winners and the Swedish Royal family attended the Nobel banquet Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006 to honor the awardees.
Front row, from left: The 2006 Nobel Prize laureates John C. Mather, George F. Smoot III, Roger Kornberg, Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello, Orhan Pamuk and Edmund S. Phelps attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony in the Concert Hall of Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006.
John C. Mather receives the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel award ceremony in Stockholm's Concert Hall, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006. Mather, 60, an astrophysicist at the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, shares the prize with George Smoot, 61, an astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
Andrew Z. Fire, left, of Stanford University, receives the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sunday, Dec. 10 2006. U.S. researchers swept all the Nobel science awards this year for the first time since 1983. The Nobel Prize in medicine went to Fire and Craig C. Mello for discovering a powerful way to turn off the effect of specific genes.
A waitress brings the dessert, Pineapple parfait with pineapple salat a la menthe, during the Nobel banquet in the Stockholm City Hall. The Nobel Prize winners, the Swedish Royal family and 1,300 guests attended the Nobel banquet Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006 honoring the awardees.
Nobel Prize winner in literature Orhan Pamuk of Turkey dances with his daughter Rueya at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006. Some 1.300 guests, including the Nobel Prize winners and the Swedish Royal family attended Nobel banquet to honor the awardees.