How the Pakistanis ate crow & takeaway food
The anniversary of the American independence, is marked by festivity and a dazzling display of fireworks in Washington. But for Pakistan, there was no joy on this day.

Osama bin Laden moves into new secret base in Afghanistan
Osama bin Laden, the world's most feared terrorist leader who disappeared five months ago, has moved into a secret new base on an old Soviet collective farm in the hills a few miles south of the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.

Everest was twice as high -- Researcher
Mount Everest used to be nearly twice as high before the upper part of the world's highest mountain slid off 20 million years ago, a Japanese researcher has claimed.

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