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Malala Yousafzai, Nobel laureate and girls' education champion, gets married

The 24-year-old recent Oxford graduate called it "a precious day in my life" and shared a few photos of the intimate ceremony.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai poses for photo session during the G7 Development and Education Ministers Meeting, in Paris in 2019.

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in history, announced on Tuesday that she was married in a small ceremony at her parents' home in England.

"Today marks a precious day in my life," she announced

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