The prison sentence of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been overturned and a retrial ordered.

An accidental explosion ripped through a store in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least three people and trapping others in a separate building that caught fire, police said – rattling nerves in a city repeatedly pounded with militant attacks.

A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in north west Pakistan today, killing 11 people, including four children, the latest in a wave of militant attacks that have claimed more than 300 lives in the past month.

A suicide car bomber killed seven people in north-western Pakistan today, officials said.