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Slain al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden plotted to kill President Barack Obama because he believed Vice President Joe Biden was ill-prepared to lead the country, according to soon-to-be released declassified documents first obtained by The Washington Post.

Compiling a top five list from Sachin Tendulkar's 100 centuries is not easy. People will highly debate the ones you have missed when compiling the list, but everybody is entitled to their own choices and perspectives.

Olivier David Och, 31, and Daniela Widmer, 29 -- who appeared at a military check point in North Waziristan on Thursday -- told Pakistani officials that they escaped their Taliban captors.

Just days after the somber one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 16,000 people in 2011, Japan was struck by two new earthquakes.

A Pakistani judicial panel will be arriving in India on Wednesday. The four-day visit of the panel is a part of the probe into the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, wherein, the panel members will be taking down the statements of the officials involved in the 26/11 Mumbai killing probe. The state of Maharashtra has been slapped with a bill of Rs 8.62 crore by the director general of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) for providing security to Ajmal Kasab outside the Arthur Road jail. The outstanding...

The Central Asian nation's natural gas production has plummeted during decades of conflict, to about 1 billion cubic feet per year as of 2009. But underground there could be vast stockpiles of gas as well as oil, potentially satisfying Afghanistan's energy needs for years.

Soon after Sarkozy's election in 2007, he invited Gadhafi to pitch his tent on the grounds of the French presidential palace in Paris.

During sting operation carried out by The Sunday Times, London, a Delhi-based bookie claimed that last year's Cricket World Cup semifinal match between India and Pakistan at Mohali was fixed. He also revealed that a Bollywood actress was used as a honey trap to tempt cricketers.

A mild earthquake rocked parts of Kashmir Monday Morning, according to Indian Meteorological Department.

Lawyers for the family of a man killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan said they would begin legal action against Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday, accusing him of complicity in strikes they say broke international laws.

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan will open the London Asian Film Festival 2012 along with British comedian and writer Meera Sayal. The nine-day festival, hosted by Tongues on Fire, will be held in multiple venues in London from March 16 to 24.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gilani named a new general to head country's top spy agency, Inter Intelligence Service (ISI), Friday.

Apparently, critical race theory is a tough nut to crack. What does it mean exactly, and how has it affected Obama's policies?

Pasha ran ISI for 3 1/2 years, a period that included the secret -- and, in Pakistan, controversial -- raid by U.S. commandos on al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's compound.

Thousands of spiders deserted their underground homes and cast their webs over acres of farmland in eastern Australia in an attempt to avoid the rising floodwater in the country.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Friday threatened that it would attack the Pakistani government, military and police officials if Pakistan didn't release the three widows of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Rahul Dravid announced his retirement from international cricket.

Violent assault in the form of acid attack is most common in many countries. According to Wikipedia, these attacks are most common in Cambodia, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and a few other countries. According to statistics, 80 percent of victims of these acid attacks are female and almost 70 percent are under 18 years of age.

On the occasion of the International Women's Day on March 8, 2012, the U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed and honored 10 women from across the globe with the International Women of Courage Awards.

Reports indicate that some of bin Laden's family members were fearful one of his wives would rat him out to American forces, while the three wives who were arrested from his Abbottabad compound are being put on trial in Pakistan.

Osama bin Laden's three widows have been charged with illegally entering and living in Pakistan.