PAKISTAN: A group of militants used petrol to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said today, in the latest in a surge in such attacks.

No-one was hurt in the overnight attack in North Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police official Rehmat Ullah said. 

THAILAND: Thai prosecutors said today that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for defaming the monarchy, three months after he was freed on parole on other charges.