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giving them fewer opportunities to show online ads and sell other services.
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AP PHOTOS: In Pakistan, the people left behind by a militant attack in the capital
• ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Zebunissa Abdul Rashid flips through an album of images of her late husband, stopping to share a sweet or funny story about the 72-year-old man who was killed by militants who stormed the court complex where the lawyer worked.
• Rao Abdul Rashid was a loving father and husband and a "man of his word" who loved collecting perfumes in a cabinet in their bedroom.
• "I miss his smile. I miss his smell. I miss opening the door for him," said the 60-year-old wife. "He was the first man of my life. I married him when I was 15 and after 4 decades and a half, they took him away from me."
• Gunmen stormed Pakistan's main court complex in Islamabad on March 3, cutting down fleeing lawyers before blowing themselves up in a rampage that killed 11 people, including Rashid's husband, Rao Abdul Rashid. It was the worst terror attack in the capital since a 2008 truck bombing at the Marriott Hotel that killed 54 people.
• In an assault that lasted roughly 20 minutes, gunmen swarmed through the narrow alleys between the complex's buildings, hurling grenades and firing automatic weapons wildly, witnesses said.
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Turkish lawyers apply to court seeking cancellation of Twitter ban
• ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's lawyers' association has asked a court to overturn the country's ban on Twitter.
• Turkey blocked access to the social media network overnight Friday hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to "rip out the roots" of the website.
• Links of audio recordings and documents implicating Erdogan and other top officials in corruption have been posted on Twitter ahead of crucial local elections on March 30.
• Turkey's main opposition party also said it would seek a cancellation.
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