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Osama bin Laden

Five things we learnt from the Osama bin Laden report: From his cowboy hat to his speeding offences

The 336-page report, based on testimony from more than 200 witnesses, official documents and site visits, alleges:

Locals and media gather outside the compound, pictured in May 2011, where Osama Bin Laden was reportedly killed in an operation by US Navy Seals

Osama bin Laden report: Leaked documents criticise Pakistan's security failure - and even reveal how Al-Qa'ida leader was stopped for speeding and let go

Osama Bin Laden was able to hide undetected in Pakistan for years because of a “collective failure” of the country’s “military authorities, the intelligence authorities, the police and the civilian administration,” according to a damning report kept secret by the Pakistani government.

Bangladeshi student Fatima Sheikh to play the role of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai

Indian film director Amjad Khan confirmed that 16-year-old Fatima Sheikh, from Dhaka, will play the central part in the film

The shooting of Malala Yousafzai created a huge wave of sympathy and support

The New Suffragettes: Taking on the Taliban

All Malala Yousafzai wanted was education, for herself and other girls. For that, she was sought out and gunned down. Now she is a global icon

Film star Angelina Jolie (left) has paid tribute to a Malala Yousafzai (right), the girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan

Angelina Jolie pays tribute to Malala Yousafzai at Women in the World summit

Star says Taliban attack only strengthened the teenager's call for girls' education

Malala on her first day at Edgbaston High School in Birmingham

Taliban shooting survivor Malala strikes publishing deals 'to tell story of 61m children who can't get education'

Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old who survived being shot after standing up to the Taliban, is to tell her story "and the story of 61 million children who can't get education" in a memoir.

At least twelve people killed at Pakistan camp for displaced

At least twelve people were killed on Thursday by a car bomb at a camp in northwest Pakistan for people displaced by fighting between government forces and Islamist militants, police said.

Malala Yousafzai can stay in the UK for at least three years

New hope for Pakistani girl shot by Taliban as father is offered UK job

Malala Yousafzai's father's new role will allow family to remain in Britain

Malala Yousafzai is carried away on a stretcher by medics following the attack

Our shock is not enough. Malala's attackers must be brought to justice

By targeting one of the few prominent women’s rights activists, the Taliban sent a chilling message to the people of Pakistan: we are still here and no one is safe.

Troops in Afghanistan are searching for Mullah Fazlullah

Taliban leader suspected in Malala Yousafzai's shooting has history of conflict with military

The Taliban leader who apparently ordered the assassination of a Pakistani schoolgirl last week may not be well-known outside the remote, picturesque Swat Valley. But there he is infamous for his long campaign against female education.

Amol Rajan: Malala's shooting is about the tyranny of theocracy

It's 4pm on a muggy afternoon in Mingora, north Pakistan. School's out. You're feeling agitated.

The theocrats who tried to kill Malala Yousufzai must be defeated. Sign our petition to join the fight

What sort of person knows how to pull the trigger of a gun he has aimed at the head of a 14 year-old girl who wants an education? One who thinks he has God on his side

Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head while waiting on her school bus yesterday

Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai who was wounded in an assassination attempt by the Taliban arrives in Britain for NHS treatment

The teenage Pakistani girl shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by the Taliban has arrived in Britain after doctors decided she would require long-term care to recover from the attack. She is to receive specialist treatment in a NHS hospital.

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