Pakistan

The killing of at least 30 security personnel in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula could be more than just jihadist violence – but an indication of new and dangerous tactics from the Islamic State group.

Distraught relatives await to receive news, after a crash between a passenger bus and a petrol tanker near Karachi, in southern Pakistan, killed at least 57 people.

In Britain, 2014 was the year of the floods, Ukraine saw a revolution, Scotland almost went indy and the deadly Ebola struck west Africa.

We spent much of yesterday at Channel 4 News trying to get hold of our friend and former colleague Mushtaq Yusufzai in Peshawar. Late last night he finally posted the following on Facebook:

The deliberate targeting of so many children has caused outrage across the world. And it’s part of an increasing – and horrifying – trend.

Pakistan lifts its moratorium on the death penalty for terrorists as the funerals of the 141 people killed in the Taliban’s attack on a Peshawar school begin.

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Taliban, has attacked the “atrocious and cowardly” killing of more than 100 schoolchildren in Pakistan by the Islamist extremists.

A Taliban attack on a Pakistani school leaves scores of children dead, 121 more injured and several staff killed, according to estimates from the Pakistan army.

Omar Farooq dies in a drone strike a day after another senior member of the Islamist terror network is shot dead by the Pakistani military.

Adnan el Shukrijumah, who was wanted in the US for planning to blow up the New York subway system, is the most senior al-Qaeda operative to be killed by the Pakistani military.

Members of the US navy Seal team that killed Osama bin Laden at his hideout in 2011 are making conflicting claims about who actually shot the al-Qaeda leader.

Shia Muslims in Pakistan, Iraq, and Lebanon take part in a self-flagellation ritual on the holy day of Ashoura. (Warning: graphic images)

Malala Yousafzai becomes the youngest Nobel prizewinner ever, taking the award alongside child slavery campaigner Kailash Satyarthi of India.

The Pakistani Taliban is reported to have pledged to send fighters to support the Islamic State group in the fight against the “enemies who are united against you”.

The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reaches 400 as armies from both countries scramble to provide help to victims.