A MAN stabbed so violently — he was clinically dead before being resuscitated by paramedics — has died in hospital in what may be a so-called ‘honour killing’.

Suspected US missiles slammed into two Pakistani villages close to the Afghan border, killing 29 people including several suspected foreign militants, intelligence officials said.

Ireland’s cricketers celebrated St Patrick’s day in style with a superb performance in the field to dismiss Pakistan for 132 and raise hopes of a major World Cup shock.

TWO men were given life sentences in England yesterday for the “barbaric” honour killing of a young woman who fell in love with the wrong man.

DOZENS were feared killed after last night’s bomb attack hit an Egyptian resort at the height of the tourist season.

A kite string slit a motorcyclist’s throat in the latest of a series of tragedies that have prompted a kite-flying ban in eastern Pakistan, police said today.

POLICE in Pakistan said yesterday they were holding seven Islamic militants with possible links to the suspects in the London suicide bombings, as a probe into the suspected ties focused on the city of Lahore.

Police in Lahore today said they were holding some Islamic militants who may have had links with the suspects in the London suicide bombings, as investigators try to assess whether extremists in Pakistan were involved in the July 7 attacks.

Authorities in Pakistan are looking into a connection between one of the London suicide bombers and two al-Qaida-linked militant groups there, including a man arrested for a 2002 attack on a church near the US Embassy, two senior intelligence officials said today.