Officials say they have banned teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai’s book from private schools across Pakistan, calling her a 'tool of the West'.

ONE of the world’s best-loved travel writers, Redmond O’Hanlon, is guest speaker at the Immrama Literary Breakfast taking place next Sunday in Lismore, Co Waterford.

Pakistan’s leader today condemned the bomb attacks on former premier Benazir Bhutto as “a conspiracy against democracy” and vowed to hunt down the perpetrators.