Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was buried at sea, apparently over fears that his land burial may become a site to attract his extremist followers.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command of the al Qaeda, may succeed Osama Bin Laden, but the Egyptian-born doctor may have difficulties in maintaining loyalties of large followers of the slain terrorist.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command of the al Qaeda, may succeed Osama Bin Laden, but the Egyptian-born doctor may have difficulties in maintaining loyalties of large followers of the slain terrorist.

US federal prosecutors have added four top Pakistani terrorists tied to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba(LeT) as accused in the case against Pakistani-Canadian LeT operative Tahawwur Rana for helping to plot the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

The United States has ordered embassy families and some staff out of Syria as it has hardened its tone on Damascus's crackdown on protests without calling for President Bashar al-Assad to go.

Apple has reported a 95 per cent jump in net profit to $5.99 billion in the January-March quarter of 2011 on strong sales of iPhone and Mac computers.

After six weeks of presenting evidence, the prosecution and the defence will on Wednesday make closing arguments in the trial of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam's case.

Pakistani-born Canadian citizen Tahawwur Hussain Rana and his accomplice David Headley are likely to admit during their trial in the US next month that they masterminded the Mumbai terror attack at the behest of Pakistan's spy agency ISI, according to a report on Monday.