Pakistan ordered an inquiry yesterday into how five women were buried alive in an "honour killing". Three suspects were arrested as condemnation of the outrage spread across the country.

Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi suffered a major power cut today when the country's main power utility cut the supply because the city's power company had not paid its bills, an official said.

Charismatic leader's death has left her country in flames, the region under threat and the world in danger. By Raymond Whitaker, Saeed Shah in Larkana and Omar Waraich in Karachi

When a different suicide bomb attack came close to taking her life in October, Benazir Bhutto blamed both extremists opposed to democracy and rogue elements within the government of President Pervez Musharraf.

There are no prizes for guessing which result Luther Blissett will be looking out for when the Premiership begins on Saturday. Blissett made a club-record 503 appearances for top-flight newcomers Watford in three spells at Vicarage Road between 1976 and 1992. In the process, he scored 186 goals, another record. So the outcome of his old club's game at Everton, Watford's first in the top flight for six years, will be high on Blissett's list of priorities this weekend.

Everybody but Bush and Blair wants the troops out now