Wednesday, 4 May 2011

The First Post

The First Post

Osama’s brand of Islamism was already history

Richard Ehrman: Osama had no interest in democracy and the protesters in Cairo and Tunis had no interest in him

Ten things you need to know today

Wednesday: The First Post’s super-quick catch-up on the main news talking points



Osama unarmed: White House changes its story

Calls grow for photographic proof as Obama's team admit first version of events was inaccurate

Why won't they show us Osama Bin Laden's body?

In pictures: There is a grand tradition of US lawmen showing off the victims of their harsh justice

‘50 Foot Woman’ starlet may have been dead a year

Body thought to be that of B-movie actress Yvette Vickers found by neighbour

Hunt is on for Zawahiri, ‘brains’ behind Bin Laden

Osama provided the cash, Zawahiri the smarts – and now he’s running al-Qaeda

Mick Jagger in the 1960s

In pictures: A new exhibition documenting the Stones in their heyday opens at the National Portrait Gallery today

The surprisingly smutty world of Alan Bennett

Michael Bywater: Two new stories find our national treasure on beguiling form