An intercepted secret message between al Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen about plans for a major terror attack was the trigger for the current shutdown of many US embassies.

Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence, a leaked report said.

Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence, a leaked report said.

In the US, hundreds of people have marched through Charlotte's central business district ahead of the Democratic National Convention.

US President Barack Obama last night ampooned the Republican National Convention as better suited to an era of black-and-white television as he declared that Mitt Romney “did not offer a single new idea” to fix the economy.

ONE OF the upsides to the downturn is the fact that Irish hotels and holiday homes have got a lot more competitive for families.

A Pakistani court convicted Osama bin Laden’s three widows and two of his grown-up daughters of illegal residency, sentencing them to 45 days’ detention and ordering their deportation to their own countries.

Osama bin Laden lived in five safe houses while on the run in Pakistan and fathered four children – two of them born in government hospitals, according to one his widows.

Pakistan is more than halfway finished demolishing the three-storey compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos last May.

Slain al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged his children to live peacefully in the West and get a university education, his brother-in- law said in an interview published yesterday.

Unknown assailants fired rocket propelled grenades at the military academy near Osama bin Laden’s compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad early this morning, causing damage but no casualties, police said.

THE new head of al-Qaida remembers Osama bin Laden as a sensitive man who cried when his friends lost family members, remained close to his children, and fondly remembered — by name — the 19 men who carried out the deadliest terrorist attacks ever on US soil.

Barack Obama defended the US role in bringing down Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, rejecting assessments that the international coalition he helped assemble amounted to “leading from behind”.

A private intelligence monitoring service says al-Qaida has marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an hour-long video released on jihadist websites.

PAKISTAN is warning that the Taliban are plotting to secure the freedom of Osama bin Laden’s wives and children by kidnapping a high-ranking government official and then offering to exchange their captive for the family.

A new TV documentary will reveal that a last-minute double-check of intelligence before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden cast fresh doubt on whether the al-Qaida leader was really in the Pakistani compound where he was found.

The US Navy SEALs whose helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan had rushed to the mountainous area to help a US Army Ranger unit that was under fire from insurgents, officials say.

PAKISTAN has called on the US to share information about new al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri after US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed that Osama bin Laden’s successor was in Pakistan.

The Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack on a police station that killed at least 10 officers.

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was considering renaming the terror group, according to a letter found in the house in Pakistan where he was killed.

PAKISTAN’S Taliban denied responsibility for twin bomb blasts that ripped through a crowded market in the north-western city of Peshawar, killing 39 people and injuring dozens.

Osama bin Laden’s deputy has warned that America faces not individual terrorists or groups but an international community of Muslims that seek to destroy it and its allies.

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said she plans to tour rural Burma next month in her first trip into the provinces since a 2003 political tour ended in her lengthy house arrest.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan today to repair badly-frayed relations after the killing of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden at a hideout not far from Islamabad.

A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck filled with explosives attacked a police building in north-west Pakistan today, killing five police officers and wounding at least 30 other people in the latest round of bloodshed to hit the country since the US raid which killed Osama bin Laden.

A suicide car bomber struck a police building in an army camp in Pakistan’s main north-west city early today, killing five police officers and wounding at least 30.

Afghanistan’s former intelligence chief said today he knew Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan four years ago, but his claims were rejected by the country’s leaders.

Pornography was among the items seized when US Navy SEALs raided the Pakistani hideout of Osama bin Laden, US officials said today.

US preacher Harold Camping is again preaching the world is about to end. After miscalculating in 1994, this time around, he’s predicting Doomsday for tea time next Saturday.

The Pakistani Taliban said today it carried out the twin blasts at a Frontier Corps training centre that killed at least 69 people, nearly all of them recruits, to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden.

US missiles have killed at least five alleged militants in a tribal region of Pakistan along the Afghan border – the third such attack since the US killing of Osama bin Laden, intelligence officials said.

Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to hit the US and his terror organisation was becoming battered and fragmented, according to his private diary and other documents recovered in the raid on his Pakistan hideout.

Pakistan has informed the US that it will grant access to Osama bin Laden’s wives, an American official has said.

PAKISTAN’S prime minister said Osama bin Laden’s death in an American raid was “indeed justice done” and insisted the relationship with the US was still strong.

BRITISH defence secretary Liam Fox will visit the US to discuss the implications for Britain of the intelligence seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound when the terror chief was killed last week.

BRITISH defence secretary Liam Fox will visit the US to discuss the implications for Britain of the intelligence seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound when the terror chief was killed last week.

PAKISTANI authorities still have three of Osama bin Laden’s wives and eight of his children in custody, a week after the US raid that killed the Saudi terrorist leader.

Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaida considered attacking US trains on the upcoming anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she has “no idea” what she and the rest of the US national security team were watching at the precise moment that a photographer snapped what has become a classic image of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

US President Barack Obama was today set to visit Ground Zero in New York to pay tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks, just days after the death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Former US President George Bush has declined an invitation from Barack Obama to attend an observance at New York’s ground zero.

DAVID CAMERON insisted it was in Britain’s national interest to continue to co-operate with Pakistan in the fight against terrorism, despite concerns over the way Osama bin Laden was discovered hiding in a major garrison town.

In a remarkable 36 hours of his presidency, Barack Obama carried a momentous secret but gave no hint of it as he consoled tornado victims, delivered a college commencement address and cracked jokes at a black-tie dinner.

America has said it is “inconceivable” that Osama bin Laden did not have a support system in Pakistan which enabled him to remain in the country for long periods.