World / Malala Yousafzai Malala's Last Surgery a Success London doctors put titanium plate in her head By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff Posted Feb 3, 2013 9:38 AM CST Copied Malala Yousufzai says goodbye as she is discharged from the hospital to continue her rehabilitation while awaiting further surgery, in this file photo dated Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, FIle) Malala Yousafzai is resting comfortably after London doctors successfully completed her final surgery, attaching a titanium plate to her skull and giving her a cochlear implant. The Pakistani 15-year-old, who was shot point-blank in the head by the Taliban, is in stable condition and talking and her medical team says they're "very pleased" with the results of the five-hour operation. The BBC has images of the bullet's trajectory and of the planned surgery. (More Malala Yousafzai stories.) Report an error