PHILADELPHIA

Nobel Peace Prize winner, 17, honored with Liberty Medal

A Pakistani teenager awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote girls’ education has been honored in Philadelphia.

Malala Yousafzai said Tuesday education is the best weapon against poverty, ignorance and terrorism. She made the remarks while accepting the Liberty Medal, which is given annually at the National Constitution Center to someone who strives to secure freedom for people around the world.

Yousafzai was shot in the head two years ago in her native Pakistan because of her efforts to promote girls’ education.

Earlier this month, the 17-year-old became the youngest peace prize winner.

DENVER

Teen trio may have sought to join Islamic State, FBI says

The FBI said Tuesday that it’s investigating the possibility that three teenage girls from the Denver area tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State extremists.

Suzie Payne, an FBI spokeswoman says agents helped bring the girls back to Denver after stopping them in Germany.

The girls are two sisters, ages 17 and 15, and a 16-year-old from another family, said Glenn Thompson, bureau chief of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department, whose officers took missing persons reports Friday.

The sisters had stayed home from school sick, and the 16-year-old never reported to school. The families reported no prior problems with the girls.

The announcement comes one month after Shannon Conley, 19, of Arvada, Colorado, pleaded guilty to charges that she conspired to help militants in Syria.

NEW YORK

Oscar de la Renta dies at 82, helped define U.S. fashion

Oscar de la Renta, the worldly gentleman designer who shaped the wardrobe of socialites, first ladies and Hollywood stars for more than four decades, has died. He was 82.

De la Renta died at home Monday evening in Connecticut surrounded by family, friends and “more than a few dogs,” according to a statement signed by his stepdaughter Eliza Reed Bolen. The statement did not specify a cause of death, but de la Renta had spoken in the past of having cancer.

The late ’60s and early ’70s were a defining moment in U.S. fashion as New York-based designers carved out a look of their own that was finally taken seriously by Europeans. De la Renta and his peers, including the late Bill Blass, Halston and Geoffrey Beene, defined American style.

De la Renta’s specialty was eveningwear. His signature looks were voluminous skirts, exquisite embroideries and rich colors.