Pakistan

Shares in British American Tobacco were broadly flat on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the company reported a rise in profit of 14 per cent in the half year ended 30 June.

A Conservative MP intent on banning the burka and the niqab in Britain has said that he refuses to deal with women wearing the garments if they visit him at his surgery.

Three men accused of being members of al-Qaeda have been arrested in Norway for plotting terrorist attacks.

Five Muslim American students have been sentenced to ten years in prison in Pakistan after they were found guilty of conspiring to commit terrorist attacks and funding banned terrorist organisations.

Shares in RBS were up on the FTSE 100 after the part-nationalised bank confirmed that it would be disposing of its units in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. It is also expected to sell off its assets in Kazakhstan.

A US drone attack has killed at least 10 people suspected of being Taliban militants in the region of North Waziristan in Pakistan, it is the second such attack in less than a day.