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Pakistan: Gunmen storm hospital after Quetta bus bombing which killed 14 female students

Another four injured in second blast at hospital where victims were being treated

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South African bowler Ryan McLaren celebrates wrapping up Pakistan’s innings with the wicket of Junaid Khan
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Bird has disappeared from 90 per cent of the territory it once occupied

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Suspects found guilty and sentenced to death in Shahzeb Khan murder case

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Some prisoners in Guantanamo had al-Qa'ida links but others were guilty only of being Muslims. One of the latter is Ahmed Errachidi, a Moroccan-born London chef whose prison nickname provides the title for his appalling, yet enthralling account. Like Buster Keaton's film with the same title, it has its share of surreal humour: man famed in Soho for his baked monkfish finds himself reluctant leader of terrorist suspects in shackles.

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