Friday, May 6, 2011

Osama Bin Laden 'planned 9/11 anniversary train attack'

Documents found at Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan home suggest he was planning attacks on the US, including on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, reports say. One plan was to target a US rail route, US officials revealed, although no imminent threat...
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Bin Laden: The team that killed him

The men assigned to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden were part of the US Navy's legendary special forces unit, the Seals. Who are they? It was years in the planning but took just 40 minutes to execute. More than a dozen members of the...
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US employment jumps 244,000 in April

US employment rose in April for the seventh month in a row, official figures have shown, but the overall unemployment rate has also risen. According to the US Labor Department, the number of new jobs created in April rose by 244,000, more than...
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Growth in the US economy slows to 1.8%

US economic growth slowed in the first three months of 2011 to an annualised rate of 1.8%, corresponding to a 0.4% quarterly increase. This compares with a revised annual growth rate of 3.1% in the previous quarter, official figures show. ...
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US house price falls continue, Case Shiller index shows

US house prices fell for the eighth month in a row in February and are nearing lows reached during the 2009 recession, a survey has said. The Case Shiller housing index, which is compiled by rating agency Standard & Poor's, was down 3.3%...
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US new home permits rise 11% in March

The US housing market regained some ground in March after the number of permits for new-build homes rose by 11.2% compared with the previous month. However, the recovery was from a very low base. February saw the lowest number of permits issued...
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US warned on top credit rating by Standard & Poor's

The US has been warned that the credit rating on its government debt could be cut by Standard & Poor's. S&P is concerned that Democrats and Republicans will not be able to agree a plan to reduce the growing US deficit. It has...
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Mississippi River levee to be breached for third time

US government engineers will blow up a third section of a Mississippi River levee in Missouri to relieve a flood threat, as rising waters continue to threaten towns in several US states. Officials hope the new blast on the Birds Point levee...
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Royal newly-weds to visit US after Canada tour

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to pay an official visit to the US following their first overseas tour to Canada this summer. Prince William and his new wife will extend the trip with a three-day visit to California from 8-10 July, said...
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Osama Bin Laden: The power of shrines

Osama Bin Laden's body was buried at sea to deny his followers a shrine, it has been widely reported. But why do the graves of leaders matter so much? For a man who had been the world's most wanted, it was a deeply undistinguished final resting...
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US tobacco firms win Missouri hospitals case

Six major US tobacco companies have defeated a lawsuit by hospitals seeking compensation for treating patients with smoking-related illnesses. Thirty-seven hospitals in the state of Missouri had claimed cigarette companies delivered an "unreasonably...
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FluPhone app 'helps track spread of infectious diseases'

A mobile phone application could help monitor the way infectious diseases such as flu are spread. The FluPhone app was developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Volunteers' phones fitted with the app...
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Barack Obama to visit Ground Zero

US President Barack Obama is to visit Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York, later on Thursday, four days after US forces killed al-Qaeda head Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Bin Laden was believed to be the mastermind of the...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

World 'failed to track' Bin Laden

Pakistan's prime minister says spy agencies worldwide share the blame for his country's failure to capture Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by US forces. "We have intelligence failure of the rest of the world including the United States," PM...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

Al-Qaeda's remaining leaders

After 11 September 2001, the US issued a list of suspected al-Qaeda leaders. Many have now been captured or killed, including Osama Bin Laden, while some new names have emerged. Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman al-Zawahiri, an eye surgeon who helped...
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Bin Laden raid was revealed on Twitter

The raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was revealed first on Twitter. An IT consultant, living in Abbottabad, unknowingly tweeted details of the US-led operation as it happened. Sohaib Athar wrote that a helicopter was hovering overhead...
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Bin Laden raid was revealed on Twitter

The raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was revealed first on Twitter. An IT consultant, living in Abbottabad, unknowingly tweeted details of the US-led operation as it happened. Sohaib Athar wrote that a helicopter was hovering overhead...
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US forces kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan

The BBC's Adam Brookes: US intelligence analysts believed the compound was "the sort of place that you might try to hide" Continue reading the main story Death of Bin Laden...
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

US tornadoes: Barack Obama shocked by devastation

US President Barack Obama has said he has "never seen devastation like this" after visiting a tornado-ravaged city in the south-eastern state of Alabama. Speaking in Tuscaloosa, Mr Obama said Washington would do everything possible to help...
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Buffett admits 'mistake' over Sokol's Lubrizol shares

US billionaire investor Warren Buffett has faced uncomfortable questions from shareholders in his company about the resignation of a top executive. David Sokol had violated Berkshire Hathaway's insider-trading rules, he told the meeting in...
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