Washington, Mar 28: US President Barack Obama has revealed that his seven-year-old daughter, Sasha, almost died as an infant.
During his first-ever White House Internet town-hall meeting, Obama said that Sasha developed life-threatening meningitis when she was just three months old.
"The doctors did a terrific job," Us magazine quoted him, as saying at the meeting Thursday.
"….but frankly it was the nurses that were there with us when she had to get a spinal tap, and all sorts of things that were just bringing me to tears,” he added.
Washington, Mar. 28: In the next US budget, the Obama administration will link military aid to Pakistan to the “performance of the government”, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher has said.
London, March 28 : Richard Jenkins, a British engineer, has smashed the world land speed record for wind powered vehicles, by clocking 126.1 mph (miles per hour) in the Ecotricity Greenbird.
Washington, Mar. 28 : The Pakistani neuroscientist, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who is undergoing trial on charges of attempting to kill Americans in Afghanistan, has been accused of faking symptoms of mental illness to evade prosecution.
Washington, Mar 28: Senator John McCain has denounced President Barack Obama's new plan for sending additional troops to Afghanistan, saying it was "not enough" and suggested the President ought to have been clearer that there will be more troop casualties.
Washington, Mar. 28 : US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen has confirmed media reports that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has close links with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban network, and is offering logistical support them.
