Osama bin Laden has allegedly said in a new audiotape that President Obama's Afghanistan strategy is "hopeless" and has called on the US to end the Afghanistan war and break its alliance with Israel.

Alan Beaven, a 48-year-old environment lawyer who died eight years ago on United Airlines Flight 93 to be remembered in memorial.

The Government has been secretly sending intelligence operatives to take part in the war in Afghanistan.

A Sri Lankan reporter has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for writing articles critical of the government's military operations.