Pakistan

UK has tightened rules effectively curbing immigration.

As a UN list proves, children are still being recruited and used in warfare while schools are repeatedly being attacked and closed with a UN official saying this was "another tragic year" for the world's youngsters.

Ten years after 9/11 many analysts still insist the U.S. response to the attacks by waging a war on terror and invading Iraq and Afghanistan is yet another illustration of the country's struggle to operate outside of the cold war mentality which saw it become the hegemon.

As the tenth anniversary of the Al-Qaeda-led 9/11 attacks on New York took place yesterday, both President Obama and former President George Bush addressed the crowds as ceremonies were held at various locations.

The "war on terror" declared by the U.S. and its allies ten years ago, following the Al-Qaeda-led 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, has failed to deliver peace but instead led to a resurgence of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the British Science Association's annual Festival of Science was told yesterday.

With the tenth anniversary 9/11 fast approaching, U.S. counter-terrorism officials say the threat of a car or truck bomb attack in New York or Washington is "specific, credible but unconfirmed."

The Channel Four Documentary "Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill" aired on British television Wednesday night, four months after American Special Forces stormed the al-Qaida leader's compound in Pakistan and shot the man responsible for thousands of deaths across the world.

Younis al-Mauritani, a senior al-Qaeda commander, who experts say acted as the organisation's "foreign minister", has been captured by Pakistani security forces working together with the CIA, the Pakistani army said on Monday.

More than 2,000 of bullet-riddled bodies were found buried in dozens of unmarked graves across Kashmir, an Indian government human rights commission inquiry has concluded.

Officials say a suicide bomber struck a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than a 100.

The Pakistani Taliban group has claimed responsibility for a rare female suicide attack and another bombing against police to "avenge" military operations in the lawless tribal belt on Friday.

Eight people were killed and 37 others were injured, in two bomb attacks in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar earlier Thursday morning, according local Urdu TV channel Geo reported.

According to officials, tow missiles were fired by a U.S. drone into Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people.

The hacker group Team Poison has hacked BlackBerry's blog after the company agreed to help London police track rioters using its messenger service.

Bashar al-Assad has seen the region close in around him after a string of neighboring countries have publicly called for his regime to end its brutal and deadly crackdown on protesters.

The UK is at the greatest risk of terrorism of any Western economy, according to research.

Kashgar city, in the region of Xinjiang, is still reeling from the attacks that led to the death of four people according to reports.

Police in China's western Xinjiang region say they have fatally shot two men who participated in a killing spree that is being blamed on Pakistani-trained terrorists.

China blamed Muslim extremists for a deadly attack on Sunday in its north-western Xinjiang region, even saying that the militants had been trained in camps in Pakistan.

A string of attacks on high profile figure of the Karzai government has recently proven the Taliban are decided to try and regain control over Afghanistan.In the last few weeks the confrontation between the fundamentalist goup and President Karzai has intensified, leaving the future of the country and the government uncertain.

According to a new speech by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Monday, the United States has no interest in creating permanent military bases in Afghanistan and does not want to use the country as a platform to influence neighbouring countries.

The Taliban on Wednesday said Mullah Omar was alive, accusing the Americans of hacking their phones after a text message sent to media from a spokesman's phone said the leader was dead.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to begin a three-day visit to India aimed at strengthening political and economic relations.

Investigators probing Wednesday's bomb blasts in Mumbai which killed at least 18 and injured 131 are zeroing in on the likely involvement of the Indian Mujahideen, a domestic terrorist group.

Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, the country's defence minister, said without it Pakistan could not afford to keep troops at 1,100 checkpoints near the mountainous border.

On Monday, The Guardian newspaper said that the CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he regrets the U.S. decision to stop $800 million in military aid to Pakistan.

The raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan on the 1st May has been illustrated and pieced together for an 88-page graphic novel called Code Word: Geronimo.

China has recently been at the forefront of the International scene as it leads a diplomatic offensive which proves that it wants to enlarge its sphere of influence further away from the Asian pacific zone.With the Libyan conflict, China has broken away from one of its golden rule by formally recognizing the rebels' National Council and getting actively involved in peace talks, thus interfering in a country's domestic affairs.

Pakistan's increasingly "close and effective defence ties" with China will allow Islamabad to "fill the gap" arising from the prospect of reduced military aid from the United States, a Pakistani official has said.