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Malalai was just 11 years old when the Taliban took over the Swat Valley, and ordered girls' schools to close. In her diary, which she kept for the BBC's Urdu service under a pen name, she exposed the suffering caused by the militants as they ruled. Malalai Yusufzai was attacked on her way home from school in Mingora, the region's main town

"Engineers are trying to reconnect about 30,000 Scottish homes still left without power after Thursday's storm. The strong storm - the worst in the UK for a decade - brought down trees, closed roads and schools and knocked out power lines."

Over the past five decades, Mexicans have constituted the single largest group of immigrants to the United States originating from Latin America. In 2011, 11.7 million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States, representing 29 percent of the US immigrant population and close to 4 percent of the overall US population.

"MANILA, Philippines - Philippine authorities on Monday evacuated more than 100,000 people, closed schools, and grounded flights as one of the biggest typhoons of the year bore down on the Southeast Asian country."