The Beeb's Aamer Ahmed Khan analyzes the case of Hayatullah Khan, whose family suspects that Pakistani security services murdered him after he reported that an al Qaeda figure was killed by a U.S. missile and not while making a bomb.

Just as fans need to be protected against terrorists and criminals, World Cup sponsors must be protected from those trying to use the world's greatest sporting tournament for commercial gain without ponying up.

A few days ago, in the throes of dengue fever, a painkiller addiction and while being held hostage by terrorists, I wrote the following nonsense:

At some point, however, someone's will gets broken. At some point, someone says, "no mas." That point in time is at hand for the Carolina Hurricanes.

Before I came to that stunningly wrong conclusion, I wrote this:

What a crazy series this has been.

My analogy is a championship fight between two boxers. One smacks the other so hard, you want to hold a mirror over the poor guy's mouth, let alone hold a 10-count. But despite the shot, he somehow gets up off the canvas and finds it within himself to take the fight back to the other guy.

I was sort of half-right, which is appropriate when it's down to two teams. I was just wrong about which team would have the strongest will to win.