Islamabad  - Pakistan's top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud Saturday claimed responsibility for the shootings at an US immigration services centre in New York state that killed 13 people.

"I accept the responsibility. They were my men," Mehsud told reporters in Peshawar on phone from some undisclosed location.

A lone gunman took more than 40 immigrants hostage Friday when they were taking a citizenship class at the American Civic Association building in Binghamton, located around 225 kilometres north-west of New York city.

New York, Apr. 4: Two fast-food joints here are calling themselves Obama Fried Chicken, and this has ruffled some feathers.

The eateries in Brooklyn and Manhattan plastered the new President''s last name on their awnings recently.

"Why name it that? Just because Obama is black, they''re going to put his name on a fried chicken place in a black neighborhood?" the New York Daily News quoted 16-year-old Akilah Nassy, as saying outside the Brooklyn store.

Chicago, Apr 4 : America's First Lady Michelle Obama has once again amazed most after she arrived at a piano concert in Germany with a new hairdo - bangs.

Michelle was sporting the new hairstyle when she arrived with President Barack Obama at the NATO summit in Germany.

"She looks amazing," the Chicago Sun-Times quoted one of her best friends, Yvonne Davila of D & T Communications in Chicago, as saying.

Washington, Apr 4 : Adding to the impressive list of bee qualities, scientists have now found that honeybees go through a metamorphosis in their mid-life and perform different social roles as they age.

Female worker bees work in the hive as they venture into adulthood, and perform tasks like taking care of the baby bees.

However, when they are 2-3 weeks old, almost equal to middle age in human years, they make a major career change and switch to foraging for nectar and pollen.

Washington, Apr 4 : Bristol Palin''s former fiancé and babydaddy Levi Johnston has revealed that Sarah Palin knew he and her daughter were having sex when they lived under her roof.

In a show airing April 6, Johnston tells Tyra Banks: "I''m pretty sure she probably knew. Moms are pretty smart."

While on the show, Levi talked about his sex life on national television, reports People.

However, the show hasn't been received well by the Palin household.

London, Apr. 4: Pakistan is secretly providing intelligence inputs to US forces for carrying out drone strikes against Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, a senior Pakistan intelligence official has revealed.

The official said that the United States, after months of persuasion by Pakistan''s military leadership, agreed to carry out strikes on Mehsud’s hideout and terror camps along the ungoverned Pak-Afghan border area.