Three top US senators, including John McCain, the former White House hopeful, slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt film for suggesting torture helped find the al Qaeda chief.

Internal emails among US military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony.

Seven members of the secretive US Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, have been punished for allegedly disclosing classified information to the maker of 'Medal of Honour: Warfighter', a senior defence source said today.

The publisher of an insider account of the US Navy SEAL raid that killed terror mastermind Osama bin Laden said it would begin public sales next week despite a Pentagon warning of possible legal action against the author and others.

Public disclosure of graphic photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after US commandos killed him would damage national security and lead to attacks on American property and personnel, the Obama administration has argued.

NEW YORK’S police department amassed a display of force yesterday, including checkpoints that snarled traffic, in response to intelligence about a car or truck bomb plot linked to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

IN the darkest hour of one family’s grief, the funeral of a Twin Towers atrocity victim, a eulogist asked: “Who is going to look after the children, sitting only feet away, who have had an innocent parent ripped from their grasp?”

THE US and Pakistan have agreed to work together in any future actions against “high-value targets” in Pakistan, even as US Senator John Kerry defended Washington’s decision not to tell Islamabad in advance about the American raid that killed 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.

Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit its highest point in two years – 60% - and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to a poll.

Al-Qaida has issued its first confirmation of Osama bin Laden’s death in an internet statement posted on militant websites.

US President Barack Obama is set to meet the Navy Seals who joined the daring raid of Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama said yesterday he’s decided not to release death photos of terrorist Osama bin Laden because their graphic nature could incite violence and create national security risks for the United States.

US President Barack Obama was able to monitor the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden “in real time” from the White House.

US President Barack Obama was able to monitor the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden “in real time” from the White House.

This is the text of the statement made by US president Barack Obama this morning.