Oil prices slip on bin Laden death
Oil prices erased early losses Monday, ending the session only slightly lower, as the knee-jerk optimism triggered by Osama bin Laden’s death began to fade. President Barack Obama announced late Sunday that U.S. forces had killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and officials said early Monday that bin Laden’s body…
Pakistan defends Bin Laden role
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has denied that the killing of Osama Bin Laden in his country is a sign of its failure to tackle terrorism. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Mr Zardari said his country was “perhaps the world’s greatest victim of terrorism”. Bin Laden was…
Arsenal beat Manchester United to open up English title race
Aaron Ramsey scored the only goal of the match in the second half as Arsenal beat leaders Manchester United at the Emirates Sunday to blow the English title race wide open. A win for United would have all but sealed a record 19th championship, but they now lead Chelsea by…
Osama bin Laden, the face of terror, killed in Pakistan
The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night. Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. officials said that their forces…
At 80, the Empire State Building strikes back
It is so obvious, so cliché and so visible that visiting the Empire State Building gets, ironically, overlooked. Like the single slice meal, blue Yankee cap and yellow cab, the skyscraper is in the city’s DNA, so familiar you feel as if you have been there even if you have…
NATO strike misses Gadhafi but kills a son
One of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s sons — Saif al-Arab Gadhafi — was killed after a NATO airstrike, a spokesman for Libya’s government said Sunday at a press conference. Moammar Gadhafi and his wife were in their son’s house when it was targeted, spokesman Musa Ibrahim said. Both of them…
