Malala Yousafzai

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for a failed attempt to bomb the car of television anchor Hamid Mir, whom the militant group had earlier threatened because of his reporting on the shooting of schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. A Taliban...

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Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban for championing the right of girls to education, has been able to stand for the first time since the attack and is communicating by writing, a British hospital official said....

The father of Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old education-rights campaigner who was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan, said Friday that she will "rise again." Ziauddin Yousafzai and his family were reunited with Malala at a hospital in central England on...

A pair of Iranian dissidents—a jailed human rights lawyer and a banned filmmaker - were named winners Friday of the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov Prize....

Six Afghan policemen were killed in the early morning hours Saturday in an insider attack masterminded by a fellow officer and cook teamed up with insurgents, a police spokesman said. The officer and cook shot dead two Afghan national police and were then...

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There goes Madonna, classing up the joint again. To show her support of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot and critically wounded by the Taliban because of her advocacy for girls' education, the Material Girl (a.k.a. Madge, Esther,...

Last month, when 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot and wounded by the Taliban in Pakistan, the world responded with outrage. That she was simply defending her right to an education made the event even more astounding. Her almost superhuman courage...

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways." - Isaiah 55:8 --- I am not here to tell you God's will. The temptation to do so is powerful, in light of the news out of a hospital in the United Kingdom: Malala has received a...

If there is one benefit or silver lining to come out of the savage story of what happened to Malala Yousafzai, is that now you know who Malala Yousafzai is. A brief summary: Malala is a 14 year-old Pakistani school girl, who spent her free time agitating...

When I heard about the shooting of 14-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai by a coward, who must think he's a real man to shoot a teenage girl while on a school bus simply because she wants an education, I felt sick. I might sound like a broken record...