Osama’s death or capture just months away: Expert

October 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - US may know the whereabouts of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Wednesday. Talking to newspersons in Washington, Qureshi said US troops equipped with state of the art technology and weapons were present in the region.

October 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's security forces Wednesday killed a senior militant commander in Swat valley, as troops swooped for the holed-up Taliban leaders, the military said. Nisar Ahmed, alias Ghazi Lala, was a close aide of Swat's Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah and served as his local commander in the Matta area.

October 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the United States may be aware about Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's present location. Interacting with media persons in Washington, Qureshi said the US troops, engaged in a gruesome battle in Afghanistan, are equipped with sophisticated, state of art technology and weapons hence they may be aware about Laden's whereabouts.

September 24th, 2009 TORONTO - Capturing carbon directly from the air is the only way to prevent dangerous climate changes, says a pioneering Canadian scientist. University of Calgary scientist David Keith says governments need to earmark more research funding for technologies to capture carbon dioxide in surrounding air to save the planet.

September 23rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - A python lifted a man in Australia clean off the ground while he was trying to capture it. The incident occurred when Aaron Chapman and two of his colleagues were trying to remove two 5.5m and 3.2m long pythons from the ceiling of the Yorkeys Knob Boating Club near Cairns on Monday.

September 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Security forces killed 16 more militants, at least two of them senior Taliban members, while one soldier was killed in clashes during searches in Swat on Monday, the military said in a daily update. Over 1,700 militants have been killed since Pakistani security forces launched the military operation against Taliban militants in the month of April.

September 12th, 2009 LONDON - The handshake by world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden has been described as limp, and like shaking a wet fish by a producer of CNN who met the terror mastermind. CNN producer Peter Bergen, who wrote The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al-Qaeda's Leader, met the most dreaded terrorist in March 1997 when he went to film his first television interview.

September 10th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said he believes that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is dead. In an interview with the BBC, Zardari said: "It seems as if Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Ladin is no longer alive." Zardari reiterated that democracy was working well in Pakistan, and the government is determined to fight extremism and root out militancy from the country's soil.

September 3rd, 2009 BEIJING - The Chinese government Thursday disputed two US journalists' account of their capture at the border between China and North Korea, saying it believed that the two women were not seized on Chinese territory. "According to the understanding of relevant departments, they did not find the situation as you described it," foreign ministry spokesman Jiang Yu told reporters when asked about the journalists' claim that North Korean border guards chased them across the border before arresting them.

August 22nd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A group of 128 Indian non-governmental organizations have called on the Malaysian Government to appoint an expert in Indian affairs to head the Universiti Malaya's department for Indian studies. The Star quoted coordinator K.

August 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Following the death of Pak-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone strike, an interesting question has cropped up-Will Islamabad offer the promised bounty money of 50 million rupees to the CIA for killing Pakistan's enemy no. 1? The US government had also announced a 5-million-dollar bounty on Mehsud.

August 5th, 2009 Expert: Lithuanian hostage crisis could drag onVILNIUS, Lithuania — A Lithuanian maritime expert says that any negotiations with pirates about the release of five Lithuanian sailors abducted in Nigeria could last months. Petras Bekeza, the chairman of Lithuania's sailors' union, says that the pirates who seized the crew members of a Lithuanian ship on Monday while it was docked in a Nigerian port may not have known that the small nation of Lithuania is in a deep economic crisis.

July 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani police have arrested a terrorist considered to be an expert in making suicide bomb vests, a media report said Friday. Zahid Iqbal was captured in a joint operation by the police and the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in the Pakistani capital.

June 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are changing the world's food culture, says food and wine expert Ted Allen. Allen, 44, had been the food and wine expert on Bravo's "Queer Eye", and he now hosts two programs on the Food Network, "Chopped" and "Food Detectives".

May 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden's former Tanzanian cook is coming to New York to face charges for his role in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa 11 years ago, President Obama announced Thursday.