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Al-Qaeda terrorist network leader Osama bin Laden instructed his operations chief to prepare a strike on London's Heathrow airport soon after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US, it was reported yesterday.

Militants vowed to unleash catastrophic reprisals for the killing of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin as the Middle East lurched closer to all-out war today.

A 130-year-old man has died in Saudi Arabia after a life of eating only the fruit of his labour and making the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca three times on foot, a newspaper reported today.

Eight Australians will head to Indonesia next month to monitor the country's elections.

A statement published on an Islamist website today reporting to be from al-Qaeda urged retaliation against the United States and its allies for Israel's killing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

A tape purportedly recorded by Ayman al-Zawahri, the No.2 in the al-Qaeda terror group, has urged Pakistanis to overthrow President Pervez Musharraf.

One of al-Qaeda's most dangerous figures has been revealed as a double agent who duped MI5, raising intense criticism from European governments who had repeatedly called for his arrest.

Pakistani troops are preparing an assault on a brigade of al-Qaeda militants believed to be protecting Osama bin-Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The new Hamas leader said last night the group had no plans to attack US targets, backing away from earlier threats by its armed wing following Israel's assassination of Hamas's founder.

World leaders dressed in black joined Spanish royalty and families of the 190 victims of Madrid's train bombings today for a state funeral honouring those killed in the nation's worst terrorist attack.