Pakistani police say a court has freed eight out of 10 people charged with organising the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl activist. Salim Khan, a senior police official, said on Friday that the eight men were freed because there was not enough evidence to connect them to the 2012 attack in Swat, northwest of the…

Nearly all of the men charged with the 2012 attempted assassination of teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai were acquitted in Pakistan in April, according to officials. Yousafzai was 14 when she was shot in the head by Taliban militants as she was returning home from school by bus. She was taken to hospital in Birmingham, England,…