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US prosecutors on Monday linked Osama bin Laden's son-in-law to the 2001 Al-Qaeda shoe bomber plot after adding two extra charges against the Kuwaiti, who faces life behind bars if convicted.

A Pakistani official on Thursday overturned the 33-year jail term handed down to a doctor who helped the CIA track Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and ordered a retrial, a lawyer and an official said.

A former aide to Barack Obama has said the US president resorted to playing cards on the day Osama bin Laden was killed, such was the tension over the raid.

Three years after his arrest in Iraq for allegedly causing America's worst ever national security breach, US Army private Bradley Manning finally goes on trial Monday over his disclosures to WikiLeaks.

Pakistan is planning to build a $30 million amusement park with a zoo and adventure sports facilities in the town where Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces, officials said Monday. The 50-acre (20-hectare) riverside development on the edge of Abbottabad, where US Navy SEALs shot the Al-Qaeda leader dead on May 2, 2011, will include restaurants, a heritage centre and artificial waterfalls.

The expected deportation of Osama bin Laden's family fromPakistan to Saudi Arabia has been delayed because their passports are not ready, their lawyer said Wednesday.