Month: May 2011

Osama bin Laden’s youngest son and close confidant is reportedly missing after the raid in Pakistan last week which killed his father. Britain’s Daily Telegraph says Pakistani officials believe Hamza, 20, may have escaped capture. […] […]

The parents of former Auckland student Emily Longley have made a heartfelt public plea in the UK for information about her death. Her mother Caroline, who came from Auckland on Monday, and her father Mark, […] […]

FORMER California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, one of the US’s most enduring celebrity couples, have announced their separation. A statement issued by a spokesman for Schwarzenegger said the two, married for 25 years, […] […]

A NATO bombing blitz rocked Tripoli this morning while rebels in besieged Misrata said they are pushing back Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and the UN warned Libya is being paralysed by widespread shortages. Jets screamed in […] […]

A “HOMEGROWN” US terrorist who pleaded guilty to trying to bomb a federal courthouse in Chicago’s capitol of Illinois on behalf al-Qaeda, has been jailed for 28 years. “Michael Finton is one of a number […] […]

THE family of Osama bin Laden is at the centre of a diplomatic row between Pakistan and the US, which wants to question his three wives about al-Qa’ida and his Pakistani sympathisers. The White House […] […]

PAKISTAN has dismissed as “absurd” accusations that complicity or incompetence had allowed al-Qa’ida leader Osama bin Laden to hide out in the country for years and vowed a full investigation. Addressing parliament in his first […] […]

THE government of Raul Castro announced plans yesterday to let Cubans travel abroad as tourists for the first time in more than 50 years. The measure is one of 313 reforms approved by the Communist […] […]

BEIRUT —Syrian security forces arrested hundreds of activists and anti-government protesters in house-to-house raids across the country Monday, part of an escalating government crackdown aimed at stamping out a revolt engulfing the country. The government’s […] […]

WASHINGTON—Tensions are escalating between the U.S. and Pakistan, with everyone from President Barack Obama to top American intelligence officials warning the truth will soon emerge if Pakistani officials were knowingly housing Osama bin Laden for […] […]