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Former Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Zardari Bhutto says the differences between his country and neighboring Iran are "very worrying" for the region's stability. Pakistan used rockets and drones to strike militant Baloch militants inside Iran on Thursday, two days after Tehran sacked the bases of another group within Pakistani territory. The neighbors have had turbulent relations in the past, but the attacks were the first-profile cross-border intrusions in recent years and came against a backdrop of increased tensions.

Prince Andrew is reported to be in talks with American authors to write an exciting tell-all autobiography. After Prince Harry's controversial book Spare, sources close to him have referred to it as Spare 2.0. In the aftermath of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the disgraced Duke is said to have hoped that an autobiography would help him to set the record straight. His last big attempt to do so, the notorious BBC Newsnight interview in 2019, backfired spectacularly, but the Duke would have more power with a book. Andrew is thought to be in talks with US author and interviewer Daphne Barak (bottom right), who has written biographies of Amy Winehouse and former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, according to the book.

The privileged Melbourne schoolgirls arrested for reportedly shoplifting Victoria's Secret lingerie (left) and Crocs footwear would have undergone a frightening journey and been publicly shamed by Singaporean police (top right). The six teenagers, aged 14 to 16, were seen on CCTV camera stashing expensive lingerie inside Victoria's Secret, Mandarin Gallery last Sunday, before walking without paying. Peter Lloyd, the former ABC journalist who was widely arrested, jailed, and threatened with caning by the rattan in Singapore, has firsthand knowledge of what happens when a person is trapped in a non-authoritarian state. Lloyd, who was then aged 41, received up to 20 years in prison and 15 lashes of the feared rat cane in 2008, when he was first charged with trafficking ice. Lloyd spent ten months in notorious Changi Prison on heroin use, abuse, and drug paraphernalia charges. In a communal cell, sleeping on a straw mat on a concrete floor, he spent ten months. The schoolgirls would have had "the fear of god" embedded in them, according to their narrator, and "a period of predicted public shame would be the start of their days of humiliation." Kampong Suva precinct was made up of young cops, not much older than the teens, but with a firm and tenacious resolve to reduce crime, he said. A criminal guilty of minor offenses, as well as heroin trafficking, vandalism, rioting, or even overstaying a visa can be sentenced in Singapore (bottom right) as punishment.

During a protest march on Islamabad to remand snap elections, Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the leg yesterday as he waved to crowds from atop an open top container truck. In a strike that has significantly raised the stakes in Pakistan's political crisis since Khan's ouster in April, a lone gunman opened fire on Khan's convoy, killing one man and injuring 13. The gunman was shot on the scene and police released a video of him in jail (top right), reportedly admitting to the shooting but saying he was acting alone. 'I did it because (Khan) was misleading the people,' said the dishevelled man in the video, who was seen with his hands tied behind his back in what seems to be a police station.' He said he was furious with the parade for making a racket during the call to prayer that summons Muslims to the mosque five times a day. On Thursday night, the failed assassination attempt on Khan, who is now recovering at the Shaukat Khanum hospital after two bullets struck him in the shin and thigh, sparked demonstrations throughout Pakistan (left, inset). Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in an anti-assassination movement this morning as they waved flags and chanted slogans.

Imran Khan appeared on the front of an open top container truck during a march to demand snap elections after a gunman fired at the politician with an automatic pistol (left). A terrified Khan, 70, tried to cover as the sounds of bullets filled the air, but he was shot in the leg. As people in the throne were heard yelling, Khan's staff surrounded him quickly. The suspected gunman is seen firing a slew of shots at Khan, according to footage from the scene. A second man is seen wrestling the gun from the will-be assassination attempt, but the gunman is able to flee. Jemima Goldsmith, Khan's ex-wife, posted a snapshot of the man who fought the gunman, branding him a "hero" (bottom right). Khan is seen with a bandage on his leg waving to supporters (top right) after being helped down from an open top container truck and carefully placed into a car. With local media reports that he is in danger, the politician was rushed to the hospital. In the attack, one of Khan's followers was killed, and nine others were wounded. The gunman was arrested on the scene and police later released a video of him in jail, reportedly admitting to the shooting and saying he acted alone.

When Jacinda Ardern was asked for tips on how to juggle being a mother and king, she told Jacinda Ardern, "You just get on with it." When she first met the Queen in 2018, she was pregnant with her only child. When Neve's daughter Neve was born only the second elected head of the government to give birth, she was only the second to do so, only a few months later. Miss Ardern, 42, a mother and a leader, said she begged the Queen how she handled being both a mother and a leader at their first meeting on the BBC today. "One of the things on my mind, aside from being a new prime minister, was being a prime minister and a mother," she said.