Malala Yousafzai leaves Queen Elizabeth Hospital
A Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban has been discharged from a Birmingham hospital as an inpatient.
Malala Yousafzai, 15, was being treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB) after being transferred following the attack in October.
She will continue her rehabilitation at her family's temporary home in the West Midlands.
Malala will have cranial reconstruction surgery in late January or early February, the hospital's trust said.
The Taliban said it shot Malala, a campaigner for girls' education, for "promoting secularism".
Doctors said the bullet grazed the teenager's brain when it struck her just above her left eye in the incident in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan.
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India charges men accused in gang rape case
Prosecutors in New Delhi have formally charged five men accused of raping a 23-year-old woman who later died from severe head trauma and organ damage. The case sparked outrage across India.
The charges filed against the men on Thursday to the district court included murder and presented a reportedly 1,000-page dossier of evidence. If the court finds the assailants guilty in the fast-tracked case, they could face the death penalty. The country's chief justice called for resolve to let justice prevail in a highly emotional situation.
"Let us not get carried away. A swift trial should not be at the cost of a fair trial," Chief Justice Altamas Kabir told the local media on Thursday.
Furious battle for Aleppo airport
January 4, 2013 - 8:44AM
Furious combat is raging around the main airport and a military airbase in northern Syria, a day after the United Nations gave a staggering toll of 60,000 dead in the 21-month civil war.
Insurgents besieged troops on the perimeter of Aleppo’s international airport and around Taftanaz airbase in Idlib province, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The airport in Aleppo has been closed since Tuesday after repeated attacks by rebels, according to an airport official.
The Greece of AsiaJapan's Growing Sovereign Debt Time Bomb
By Anne Seith
The eyes of the financial world are on Greece and other heavily indebted euro-zone countries. But Japan is in even worse shape. The country's debt load is immense and growing, to the point that a quarter of its budget goes to servicing it. The government in Tokyo has done little to change things.
Today's Tokyo has become a permanent mecca of consumption, its boroughs seemingly divided according to target markets. The city's Sugamo district, for example, is dominated by the elderly. Escalators in the subway station there go extra slow, while the stores along the Jizo Dori shopping street offer items such as canes, anti-aging cream and tea for sore joints. The Hurajuku neighborhood, on the other hand, is teeming with fashionistas made up to look like Manga characters.
Sudan, South Sudan presidents to meet over tensions between them
Rival leaders of Sudan and South Sudan are due to meet Friday in the Ethiopian capital to push for progress on stalled economic, oil and security deals that were drafted to ease tension between the former civil war foes.
The meeting between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his Southern counterpart Salva Kiir comes despite accusations from Juba on Thursday that Khartoum had launched aerial and ground attacks inside South Sudan.
Southern army spokesman Philip Aguer said that Sudanese troops had struck inside South Sudan on Wednesday, just as aircraft were bombing the South's remote north Raja region of Western Bahr el-Ghazal state.
4 January 2013 Last updated at 05:48 GMT
Hugo Chavez suffers 'complications' after surgery
Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, is suffering from "complications" brought on by a "severe lung infection" which developed after surgery, officials say.
Mr Chavez, 58, had his fourth operation for cancer in Cuba on 11 December and then developed a respiratory infection.
In a statement from Caracas, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said the infection had "led to a respiratory insufficiency".
Mr Chavez is due to be sworn in for another term in office on 10 January.
Google Pushed Hard Behind the Scenes to Convince Regulators
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and NICK WINGFIELD
Published: January 3, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — For 19 months, Google pressed its case with antitrust regulators investigating the company. Working relentlessly behind the scenes, executives made frequent flights to Washington, laying out their legal arguments and shrewdly applying lessons learned from Microsoft’s bruising antitrust battle in the 1990s.
After regulators had pored over nine million documents, listened to complaints from disgruntled competitors and took sworn testimony from Google executives, the government concluded that the law was on Google’s side. At the end of the day, they said, consumers had been largely unharmed.
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