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Pakistan mourns school massacre victims

The BBC was one of the first broadcasters to see inside the school

Funerals are being held in Peshawar after Pakistan's deadliest Taliban attack left 132 children and nine staff dead at a school.


British soldiers in Iraq in October 2005UK army murder claims 'were lies'

Allegations of murder and torture made against British soldiers by Iraqi detainees after a 2004 battle were "deliberate lies", the Al-Sweady Inquiry rules.

The Reverend Libby LaneChurch appoints first female bishop

The first female bishop for the Church of England has been announced as vicar Reverend Libby Lane, just a month after the historic change to canon law.

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