US President Barack Obama signed the death warrant for the world's most wanted man Osama bin-Laden on April 29, after months of preparations and meticulous planning against the highest-value target.

A U.S. official says Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea.

After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according

Text of speech: Barack Obama

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.

Waving US flags, thousands flooded to the White House in spontaneous celebrations early on Monday after the death of Osama bin Laden, as the surprise news was welcomed by Americans across the country.

US Navy SEALs led the commando operation in Pakistan that ended the life of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden with a bullet to the head, a US official told AFP.

The SEALs, which stands for Sea, Air, La

World's most wanted terrorist was not killed in a cave but in a two-storey house just yards from Pakistan's Military Academy in Abbottabad, a town close to the capital Islamabad, with reports saying that he fired at the US commandos as they swooped down on his hideout.

The mansion in Pakistan where elite US commandos cornered and killed Osama bin Laden in a surgical raid was a bloodstained mess with overturned furniture and blood-soaked carpeting, US television foot

Asserting that Pakistan needs to do more to bring the 26/11 Mumbai terror attackers to justice, former British foreign secretary David Miliband has asked western powers to be firm with Islamabad on th

A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 hit Panama early on Saturday, the US Government reported.