The Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for the right to go to school has arrived in the UK.
Malala Yousafzai, 14, was flown to Birmingham Airport and taken by ambulance to the city's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where she will receive specialist "prolonged care" to help her recover.
The teenager was shot on a bus in front of her friends last Tuesday, in what Foreign Secretary William Hague described as a "barbaric attack".
Her life was saved by neurosurgeons in a Pakistani military hospital and she has since been in intensive care.
But doctors decided she needed "prolonged care" to help her recover from the physical and psychological effects of the attack.
Hospital staff in Birmingham say they are used to receiving such casualties. Medical Director Dr Dave Rosser said it was "part of their day job", having taken battle casualties for the past ten years.
He said Malala had a decent chance of a good recovery, otherwise she would not have been flown over from Pakistan.
I hope you get well soon Malala; you will be soon joined by your parent?s, uncle and grand grand parents??
