• Women walk near the site of an attack on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on February 12, 2014. Militants killed several members of an anti-Taliban militia in the northwestern city, police said. Mohammad Sajjad / AP photo
    Women walk near the site of an attack on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on February 12, 2014. Militants killed several members of an anti-Taliban militia in the northwestern city, police said. Mohammad Sajjad / AP photo
  • Forensic experts inspect the wreckage of a C-130 Hercules aircraft on Mount Fertas in the Oum El Bouaghi region, about 320 kilometres from the Algerian capital Algiers, on February 12, 2014. The military aircraft carrying 78 people crashed in the mountainous north-east region of the country on Tuesday, leaving a sole survivor in one of the country’s deadliest air disasters, the defence ministry said. Farouk Batiche / AFP photo
    Forensic experts inspect the wreckage of a C-130 Hercules aircraft on Mount Fertas in the Oum El Bouaghi region, about 320 kilometres from the Algerian capital Algiers, on February 12, 2014. The military aircraft carrying 78 people crashed in the mountainous north-east region of the country on Tuesday, leaving a sole survivor in one of the country’s deadliest air disasters, the defence ministry said. Farouk Batiche / AFP photo

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Best images from around the world in the past 24 hours — February 11

Rob Gurdebeke

February 12, 2014

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Scotland 54-17 Fiji
England 15-16 New Zealand

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Director: Shonali Bose

Cast: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Farhan Akhtar, Zaira Wasim, Rohit Saraf

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Name: Yousef Al Bahar

Advocate at Al Bahar & Associate Advocates and Legal Consultants, established in 1994

Education: Mr Al Bahar was born in 1979 and graduated in 2008 from the Judicial Institute. He took after his father, who was one of the first Emirati lawyers

At a glance

Global events: Much of the UK’s economic woes were blamed on “increased global uncertainty”, which can be interpreted as the economic impact of the Ukraine war and the uncertainty over Donald Trump’s tariffs.

 

Growth forecasts: Cut for 2025 from 2 per cent to 1 per cent. The OBR watchdog also estimated inflation will average 3.2 per cent this year

 

Welfare: Universal credit health element cut by 50 per cent and frozen for new claimants, building on cuts to the disability and incapacity bill set out earlier this month

 

Spending cuts: Overall day-to day-spending across government cut by £6.1bn in 2029-30 

 

Tax evasion: Steps to crack down on tax evasion to raise “£6.5bn per year” for the public purse

 

Defence: New high-tech weaponry, upgrading HM Naval Base in Portsmouth

 

Housing: Housebuilding to reach its highest in 40 years, with planning reforms helping generate an extra £3.4bn for public finances

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Transmission: Seven-speed automatic

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Fuel economy, combined: 7.0L / 100km

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