Al Qaeda cheif osama bin laden dead

 U.S. President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden was killed earlier that day by "a small team of Americans" acting under Obama's direct orders, in a covert operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, 32 miles (51 km) north of Islamabad, affirming earlier confirmation by US officials to the media. According to US officials a team of 20-25 US Navy SEALs under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command and working with the CIA stormed bin Laden's compound in two helicopters. Bin Laden and those with him were killed during a firefight. The site is just a few kilometers from the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul. DNA from bin Laden's body, compared with DNA samples on record from his dead sister,confirmed bin Laden's identity. The body was recovered by the US military and is in its custody.

Worried about SSC exam,girl committed sucide in mira road

MUMBAI: On a day when lakhs of students appeared for their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination that began on Tuesday, a Mira Road Std X student committed suicide just an hour before her paper.

Zainab Shaikh, a resident of Jai Vijay Nagar near Silver Park, was to appear for her Urdu exam on Tuesday. Around 9 am, she had breakfast with her mother Shabnam (38) and younger brother Shahzad (14). By 10 am, she went to her bedroom get ready.

When Zainab did not step out of the bedroom for over 15 minutes, her mother, worried that the girl would not be able to make it to her exam centre at Don Bosco School in Mira Road, knocked on the door, but didn't get a response. A domestic help employed by the Shaikhs called out to Zainab, but the girl didn't answer.

A worried Shabnam then called the police. Policemen rushed to the Shaikh residence and broke open the door to Zainab's bedroom. They found her hanging from the ceiling fan with a dupatta. No suicide note was found.

In her statement to the police, Shabnam, a single mother, said her daughter was depressed for the last 15 days. Zainab, who was good in her studies, was worried about the exam and had stayed up late on Sunday to study.

Apple unveils the iPad 2 on march 2

Everybody knows that Apple is launching the iPad 2 today. But nobody really knows what it is. We’ll be at the live event writing about the announcement as it comes down at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (pictured yesterday) in San Francisco.

The announcement takes place at 10 am and happens just a half hour before Nintendo chief executive Satoru Iwata takes the stage next door at the Game Developers Conference in the Moscone Center. The fact that Apple chose to unveil the iPad 2 right on top of the Nintendo announcement tells you a lot about who the competition is. The iPad 2 is sure to be a cool gaming device, competing head to head with Nintendo’s market-leading game device. Nintendo will launch its new 3DS handheld — which can display glasses-free stereoscopic 3D — on March 27.

The original iPad blew the tablet market wide open last year, selling nearly 15 million units in 2010 after debuting in April. But the iPad 2 will launch into a much different environment, with lots of competition from the Motorola Xoom and other Android 3.0 tablet computers. More rivals are coming every day, from RIM’s PlayBook to Hewlett-Packard with its upcoming WebOS tablet.