BBC News with Marion Marshall

The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram says it carried out the wave of shootings and bombings in the northeast of the country, which left at least 65 people dead. Grant Ferrett reports.

In recent months, Boko Haram has become more brazen and deadly in its attacks. In Damaturu, gunmen armed with automatic weapons and grenades attacked apparently at will for several hours, targeting police stations, government offices, churches and a bank. The wave of violence began on Friday in the city of Maiduguri when three suicide bombers blew themselves up at the headquarters of the very security forces who've been deployed to tackle Boko Haram. The group, which says it wants to establish a Muslim state in northern Nigeria, has warned of further attacks.

A Pakistani security court has charged two senior police officers and five Taliban militants in connection with the 2007 assassination of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. She died in a gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi. One of the officers charged was police chief there at the time. Owen Bennett-Jones has been following the case.