WASHINGTON: Osama bin Laden had planned to kill US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, who was then top US commander in Afghanistan, and had issued instructions to Ilyas Kashmiri to set up two units to target planes carrying them.

MELBOURNE: US President Barack Obama had a fling with an Australian woman in New York in the 1980s and a new biography threatens to bare this torrid affair.

PUNE: On a slow, tricky wicket, cricketing skills have to confront a very different challenge. Team Mumbai knew that the Pune strip would test them after winning the toss and choosing to bat. But even they could not have imagined that they would manage only 120-9 after being 42 for no loss in six overs. However, it remained a difficult wicket to bat during the chase too.

HYDERABAD: Indian badminton has reached a milestone with five players earning qualification berth for the 2012 Olympics. It is also the first time that India will have a doubles team at the quadrennial Games in London.

Kota. When surrounded by high hills, Kullu - Manali and Shimla Airport on runway 50 -42 seater ATR aircraft can be operated small aircraft operating in the Kota level is not a problem at the airport. It says the governments chief pilot Kesri Singh.

GHAZIABAD: Holding that legal history is replete with instances of filicide, a special CBI court today denied bail to dentist Nupur Talwar in the sensational 2008 double murder of her daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj.

New Delhi: Members of Parliament, cutting across party lines, today lambasted yoga guru Swami Ramdev for his remark that dacoits and criminals were sitting inside Parliament.Swami Ramdev, while addressing a rally in Dalli Rajhara in Chhatisgarh on May Day, had remarked about MPs : "They are dacoits. They are devils in the guise of human beings. Robbers and criminals are sitting inside parliament and we have to save parliament from such people."

Mumbai: 21-year-old Guwahati student Bidhan Barua, who feels he is a woman trapped in man’s body, today threatened to commit suicide after the Bombay High Court refused to hear his petition urging for a direction to his parents to allow him undergo a sex change operation.

WASHINGTON: Secret diaries of an Australian woman who was one of young Barack Obamas girlfriends, show the warmth and trust of the future president in love, but also hint at his reserve and "coolness."

New York: One of the art world’s most recognisable images Edvard Munch’s The Scream could sell for $80 million or more when it is auctioned Wednesday in New York.The 1895 painting of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky has become a modern symbol for human anxiety, popularised in movies and plastered on everything from mugs to T-shirts.