Residents of a Pakistani village were bemused on Sunday to find themselves at the centre of the investigation of the secret life of Osama bin Laden.

Pakistan’s president acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that his security forces were left out of a US operation to kill Osama bin Laden.

World leaders hailed Osama bin Laden’s death but the euphoria is tempered by fears of retaliation and warnings of the need for renewed vigilance.

Bin Laden was killed in a night-time raid by US helicopters and troops on his hideout in Abbottabad, home to Pakistan’s main military academy.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani is likely to survive after the main opposition group said it would not push for a no-confidence vote.

Only a small fraction of the six million Pakistanis desperate for food and clean water have received any help as the UN battles donor fatigue.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in an SUV at a volleyball game in north-west Pakistan on Friday, killing 93 people in a village.

A suicide bomber attacked a site where a volleyball game was being played in north-west Pakistan on Friday and casualties were feared, police said.

Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 120 people in Pakistan’s North West Frontier province, and forced hundreds of thousands out of their homes in…