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Pakistan claim first test

NZ have lost the opening test of the series against Pakistan by 248 runs but it came amid a fighting final partnership of 54 between Ish Sodhi and Trent Boult.

Navy SEALs at war over Osama claim

Rob O'Neill under fire from fellow SEALs after he claimed he was the shooter who put three bullets into Osama bin Laden's head.

Malala will not be a 'cuddly caricature'

There is something irritatingly smug and condescending about some of the coverage of "the bravest girl in the world," writes Joshua Keating

Teen activist jointly wins Nobel Peace Prize

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

How great is the threat posed by the Islamic State?

Cricket: Banning of Pakistani bowler good news for NZ batsmen

New Zealand's batsmen are entitled to approach their demanding series against Pakistan with a touch more confidence, now that Saeed Ajmal has been rubbed out of the game.

Three dead and hundreds injured in Islamabad protests

Scotty Stevenson: Pakistan's bowlers run Glasgow curry kitchen

Qureshi Ayub Mohammed and Ali Shan Muzahir have become famous for something other than their curry: they are Pakistan's first Commonwealth Games lawn bowlers.

Malala invited to Buckingham Palace to meet queen

Car bomb rips through bazaar in Pakistan

A car bomb ripped through a crowded street in Peshawar's oldest bazaar, killing 40 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city in a week, officials said.

Rockets target Pakistan aid chopper

Separatist militants fired two rockets that narrowly missed a Pakistani government helicopter surveying a region devastated by an earthquake, underscoring the dangers authorities face in helping victims in Baluchistan.

Quake victims struggle for food

Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bedsheets after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 348 people.

Muddy island formed by Pakistan quake may not last

'We need more tents, more medicine'

Rescuers struggled to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a major earthquake in southwestern Pakistan, while the death toll from the massive temblor there rose to 285.

Quake creates new island

Alongside the carnage of Pakistan's massive earthquake came a new creation: a small island of mud, stone and bubbling gas pushed forth from the seabed.

Pakistan militants prepare for war in Afghanistan

Militants in Pakistan's most populous province are said to be training for what they expect will be an ethnic-based civil war in neighbouring Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw in 16 months, according to analysts and a senior militant.