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The death of Osama bin Laden inspired many questions, but fewer answers on Tuesday: Could it lead to further erosion of support for foreign troops in Afghanistan and, subsequently, a faster withdrawal by NATO? And how should outside powers deal with Pakistan, whose president denied Western accusations that his nuclear-armed nation lacked what he called ''vitality'' in combating terrorism? ''There are lots of questions that need to be asked,'' Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said in a radio interview Tuesday. ''And we should be tough in asking those questions. But we should deal with what we do know. And we do know that the Pakistan political leadership is fighting terrorism. We do know that country has suffered.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs that Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has disclosed that people sympathetic to the Taliban had been active in the frontier regions near the border with Afghanistan. The prime minister accused the weak authority of the Afghan government. Aziz said that the core of the problem is in Afghanistan.

The article offers world news briefs. The French socialist party has chosen Ségolène Royal as their presidential candidate for the elections to be held in April. A suicide bomber blew himself near a police van in Peshawar, Pakistan. The United Nations conference on climatic change held in Nairobi, have agreed to review the Kyoto protocol by 2008.

The article offers world news briefs as of February 11, 2014 including a confirmed case of polio in Afghanistan after 12 years, grenade attack at a movie theater in Pakistan killing 11 people and cancellation of Israel trip of British Prime Minister David Cameron to deal flooding in England.

This article describes the arrest of Rashid Rauf in Pakistan by Pakistani officials for his alleged role in the plot to blow up planes flying from Great Britain to U.S. cities. Rauf is British-born and is believed to have been acting as a liaison for Al Qaeda and the British plotters. After Rauf was arrested, the British arrested up to 24 suspects in England who were planning to use liquid explosives carried onto passenger planes and to detonate them as they flew to U.S. cities.