Girl shot by Taliban discharged from UK hospital
LONDON -- Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai has been discharged from a British hospital where she had been receiving treatment for nearly four months after being shot in the head by the Taliban.

DUBLIN -- Authorities say a United Airlines flight from London to Los Angeles has made an emergency landing in Shannon, Ireland, after the pilots reported smoke in the cockpit.
LONDON -- Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai has been discharged from a British hospital where she had been receiving treatment for nearly four months after being shot in the head by the Taliban.
SYDNEY -- Strong aftershocks rattled the Solomon Islands on Friday, hampering relief efforts to tsunami-ravaged villages and forcing the South Pacific nation's prime minister to forgo a visit to the stricken area, where nine deaths have been confirmed.
KANO, Nigeria -- Gunmen suspected of belonging to a radical Islamic sect shot and killed at least nine women who were taking part in a polio vaccination drive in northern Nigeria on Friday, highlighting the religious tensions surrounding the inoculation of children in one of the few nations where the disease still remains endemic.
PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- A bomb planted near a market in northwestern Pakistan killed 10 people and wounded 23 others Friday, the latest in an uptick in attacks in recent months, government officials said.
BAGHDAD -- Car bombs struck two outdoor markets and a group of taxi vans in Shiite areas across Iraq on Friday, killing at least 36 people and wounding nearly 100 in the bloodiest day in more than two months, as minority Sunnis staged large anti-government protests.
TIMBUKTU, Mali -- French troops began to withdraw from Timbuktu Thursday after securing the fabled city as they ramped up their mission in another northern Mali city, searching for Islamic extremists who may be mixing among the local population.
BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders drew hard lines Thursday as they opened a summit to decide EU spending for the next seven years, reflecting deep divisions about the role of their union.
PARIS -- France, waging war against Islamist extremists in Mali, is on the hunt for would-be fighters at home, fearful that they will join militants in the conflict in its former African colony or take radical action on French soil.
CAIRO -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tried Thursday to entice Egypt into a new alliance that could reshape the turbulent Middle East, speaking of forging "comprehensive" and "unfettered" relations after decades of distrust.
DUBLIN -- Ireland clinched a long-sought agreement Thursday with the European Central Bank to restructure the loans used to bail out its failing banks, a deal expected to reduce the national debt by (euro) 20 billion ($27 billion) in the coming decade and help the country's expected exit from its own international bailout.
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Warning repeatedly of "consequences," the top U.S. diplomat for Africa on Thursday appeared to caution Kenyan voters against electing a president who faces charges for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
TOKYO -- Japan's Defense Ministry said two Russian fighter jets briefly intruded Thursday into Japanese airspace as the country was holding rallies demanding that Moscow return a group of disputed islands.
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's supreme leader Thursday strongly rejected proposals for direct talks with the United States, effectively quashing suggestions for a breakthrough one-on-one dialogue on the nuclear standoff and potentially other issues.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S.-led coalition says a NATO helicopter has crashed in eastern Afghanistan.
JERUSALEM -- A senior Palestinian official urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to help restart Israeli-Palestinian talks, despite a White House statement that the U.S. leader will not pursue any new peace initiatives on his upcoming trip to the region.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Corruption accusations and insults are flying between allies and opponents of President Hugo Chavez nearly two months after the Venezuelan leader disappeared from the political stage to undergo cancer surgery in Cuba.
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities say a 9-year-old girl has given birth in western Mexico and they are looking for the purported father, a 17-year-old.
SYDNEY -- Six bodies, including a child's, have been found in the sodden wreckage left by a tsunami that smashed into villages in the Solomon Islands, flattening dozens of homes in the South Pacific island chain.
TUNIS, Tunisia -- Shaken by the assassination of a prominent leftist opposition leader that unleashed massive protests, Tunisia's prime minister announced Wednesday that he would form a new government of technocrats to guide the country to elections "as soon as possible."