Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi was given The Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation by Dame Sarah Mullally last Friday - the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
However, Lambeth Palace withdrew the award after it emerged that in 2007, Mr Ashrafi said he would give bin Laden - the orchestrator of the September 11 terror attacks which claimed nearly 3,000 lives - the title Saifullah, which means "Sword of God", for "serving Muslims by waging jihad against infidels".
An image of Mr Ashrafi receiving his award last week was accompanied by a caption saying he was being recognised "for his outstanding work as an ambassador of interfaith harmony in Pakistan".
Lambeth Palace said it had rescinded the accolade, saying "previous comments made by Imam Ashrafi have come to light".
In a statement, a spokesperson for Mr Ashrafi said his remarks had been reported "without their proper context" and that the comments were "not an endorsement of bin Laden".
The statement said: "His [Mr Ashrafi's] longstanding record against terrorism and violent extremism should be considered when assessing such remarks."
It added that Mr Ashrafi's comments on bin Laden in 2007 came amid protests in Pakistan against Sir Salman Rushdie being given a knighthood in Britain.
Rushdie is the author of Satanic Verses, a book which some Muslims consider blasphemous.
Mr Ashrafi told the Press Association he had been "giving an example" at the time to demonstrate the equivalence in offence caused to the Muslim community by the awarding of an honour to Rushdie.
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The National Secular Society chief executive Stephen Evans said he welcomed the withdrawal of the award, adding that "it is astonishing that it was given in the first place - on the anniversary of 9/11, no less".
Mr Evans said: "This episode reveals not only appallingly poor judgement and inadequate due diligence, but a dangerous naivety about the religious figures legitimised through interfaith engagement."
Smaller than the average domestic cat at around 46cm long, it was found in Bolivia's Yungas region - a misty cloud forest between the Andes and the Amazon.
It is the first time in over a century that a new living cat species has been formally identified.
Called Tilcayo by local communities, it has been given the scientific name Leopardus tilcayo and is part of the tiger cat family found across much of the continent.
However, genetic tests confirmed it is a new species.
"Its fur is light brown... with irregularly shaped rosettes across its body," said Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, one of the study's authors, and a biologist and National Geographic explorer.
Not much is known so far about its lifestyle, but researchers believe it's more active at night and probably eats small rodents.
Fellow lead author Jonas Lescroart, from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, said their work is based on two live examples of the cat - one of which is now in a Bolivian wildlife sanctuary after previously living in a family home.
They also analysed photos from camera traps.
The team looked at DNA data from 38 examples from several countries and found tiger cats are in fact five genetically distinct species.
They believe Tilcayo separated from others in the group about 1.4 million years ago.
"We never expected this Bolivian tiger cat to be a separate species, and no one had ever proposed it as a different animal, subspecies or otherwise," Mr Lescroart said.
Tiger cats are considered as two "vulnerable" species and an upcoming review by the International Union for Conservation of Nature will now assess the five lineages separately.
This could lead to Tilcayo being declared endangered in its own right.
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The cat's home in the Yungas is one of the region's most at-risk ecosystems due to threats such as deforestation, agriculture, human-caused fires and mining.
"Showing the general public that even in a flagship group such as cats... there are still new species to be discovered may transmit an important message," said Eduardo Eizirik, an evolutionary biologist and a senior author of the study.
"There are many undiscovered species out there in the world, and they are at risk of disappearing before we even discover them."
Nusrat Osman, 47, was abducted in the southern city of Blantyre on Friday, the Malawi Police Service (MPS) said.
The mother-of-two, who reportedly works for a local auditing firm but was originally from Leicester, was abducted around lunchtime on 11 September.
She was taken at "approximately 12.30pm at Mount Pleasant," by four men believed to have used a grey Nissan Dualis, the force added.
The suspects had not contacted Ms Osman's family or authorities and the motive was not clear.
The MPS was offering a reward of 30m Malawi Kwacha - which is around £12,800 - to anyone giving them "credible information" that could help with the rescue operation and arrests.
The Malawi police put out a statement saying Ms Osman was rescued in Mpemba/Chadzunda, just outside of Blantyre, on Thursday during an "intelligence led police operation".
It said there was a shoot-out between police and the kidnappers "who were armed with AK47 rifle and a Girsan MC pistol".
They were shot and taken to hospital where they died from their injuries, police added.
During the same operation, Dr Mlowoka Noel Kayira, deputy general of the police, suffered gunshot wounds and is in hospital in a stable condition.
Osman's brother, Shobi Jiwa, told Malawi news outlet Nation Online she was rescued in an operation in which the deputy inspector general was shot and wounded.
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Atupele Muluzi, a MP for the nearby Machinga region who is from Blantyre, commended the police for the rescue.
He wrote on Facebook: "It is with great relief and gratitude that I share the news. It is understood that the rescue operation was extremely dangerous
"The family has expressed profound appreciation for the professionalism, dedication, and incredible bravery of the Malawi Police Service throughout this ordeal, particularly deputy inspector general of police, Dr Noel Kayira.
"This is a welcome outcome and a reminder of the importance of the dedicated men and women who serve and protect our communities."
Police said investigations are ongoing and more details will be provided about the suspects.
So far, no information has been released on the motive for the abduction.
Speaking to the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, Lisa Nandy told Sky News political editor Beth Rigby that X boss Elon Musk did not send a representative to a recent summit discussing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
The charity told its volunteers not to wear branded clothing outside after it was targeted following operations in the Channel that saw its vessels bring small boat migrants to the UK.
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Ms Nandy said: "I think it tells you that they haven't been held to account for a very long time.
"And I do want to be fair to those who did turn up, you know, the likes of Meta and TikTok and YouTube and others.
"I mean, some of them are doing much better than others, and they're doing it voluntarily." She added: "There are other companies that were sitting around that table who just aren't.
"And X, like you said, I mean, it is disgusting, actually, in my view, that they didn't bother to reply or to turn up.
"I think it says a lot about how they see their, well, how they don't see that they [have] a moral and social set of responsibilities to us all."
Ms Nandy bemoaned that banning young people from social media was deemed necessary to protect children online - but promised to keep using legislation to keep up with technological developments.
"There's no question that we're going to have to introduce more legislation," she said.
"I think we're going to have to start getting used to the idea, actually, that government is going to be far quicker, far more interventionist, and I think I'm going to have to see the law updated regularly because tech is changing so fast that we've got to be able to respond."
She had said earlier: "What a damning indictment it is of all of us as a collective failure that we've had to become one of the first governments in the world to say we are taking children out of social media altogether because we cannot keep them safe.
"I mean, that is, you know, if that was happening in the real world, if we were taking children out of town centres because we just couldn't keep them safe, I think we'd be having a huge national debate about that as a country.
"And [Prime Minister Andy Burnham] and I just aren't prepared to cede this to the private sector any more.
"We've outsourced child safety effectively to the likes of Elon Musk for long enough. And the government needs to step up and we're going to."
Sky News has approached X for comment.
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