Al-Qaida’s American-born spokesman urged fighters to greet US President George Bush with bombs not flowers when he visits the Middle East this week, according to a video posted on the internet today.

Al-Qaida’s American spokesman Adam Gadahn called on the terror network’s fighters to greet US President George Bush with "bombs and booby-trapped vehicles" when he visits the Middle East later this week, according to a new video posted today.

Benazir Bhutto supporters ransacked banks and burned train stations in furious rampages across Pakistan today.

Murdered Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will be laid to rest near her father in the family's ancestral village today.

Islamist websites are reporting that al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the FBI said today, as rioting spread across Pakistan and hopes for democracy hung by a thread.

Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, according to excerpts of a new audiotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television.

Three Islamic militants from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing a “profound hatred of US citizens” were arrested on suspicion of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks targeting Americans in Germany, prosecutors said today.

US airports and public transport systems are tightening security today following the terrorist incidents in Britain.

A gunman killed 32 people today in the deadliest shooting rampage in US history.

A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at a US university today, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in US history.

FBI agents have documented more than two dozen incidents of possible mistreatment at the Guantanamo Bay military base, including a detainee whose head was wrapped in duct tape for chanting verses from the Koran.

Seven people have been arrested in connection with a plot to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and other targets, the FBI said.

Biological samples from the bodies of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his associates have been delivered to the FBI crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.

Authorities closed one of two highway tunnels carrying traffic under Baltimore’s harbour for nearly two hours today and partially shut the other because of a threat to detonate vehicles full of explosives inside the tubes.