Pakistan acquits eight Malala shooting suspects

Eight of the 10 men reportedly convicted and jailed for attempting to murder Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai were actually cleared, officials said Friday. The Nobel-prize winning teenager was shot in the head in October 2012 by Pakistani Taliban militants who boarded her school bus in an attack that also wounded two of her friends and shocked the world. In April, legal and security officials announced that a court had sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment over the attack, followin