Services planned to mark death of reporter Pearl

Interfaith memorial services will be held in major cities around the world, including London, over the next few days to mark the anniversary of the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

The journalist, 38, was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, in January last year while researching links between Pakistani extremists and Briton Richard Reid, who was later convicted of trying to blow up a plane with a shoe bomb.