“Today” or “tomorrow,” in North Korean reckoning, came and went last week without the “merciless” nuclear strike on US targets promised by Pyongyang. Not that anyone seriously expected North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to make good his threat. The South Koreans went on alert – but they go on alert regularly anyway, with air raid drills [...]

Mr Xi, appointed to the Communist Party’s top post in November, replaces Hu Jintao, who is stepping down. Some 3,000 deputies to the National People’s Congress, the annual parliament session, took part in the vote at the Great Hall of the People. The new premier – widely expected to be Li Keqiang – is scheduled [...]

WASHINGTON: The body of Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea after he was killed by US covert forces in Pakistan , US media reported Monday. Cable television networks CNN, MSNBC and Fox said a senior US official had confirmed to them that bin Laden’s body had been buried in the sea, [...]

Osama bin Laden was holed up in a two-story house 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy when four helicopters carrying U.S. anti-terror forces swooped in the early morning hours of Monday and killed him. Flames rose Monday from the building that was the apparent target of the raid as it was confirmed that the [...]

The world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, is dead at the age of 54.  U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the world’s most wanted terrorist was killed by U.S. forces on Sunday at a compound deep inside Pakistan. Blamed for terrorist atrocities on at least three continents, Osama bin Laden was the target of [...]