Al-Qaeda's new leader is already a familiar face. Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, who turns 60 this Sunday, worked
hand in glove with
Osama Bin Laden for years, giving him strategic vision, encouraging him to "think global" and to hit the West where it hurt. Today, he faces the challenge of trying to prove al-Qaeda's relevance to the millions
casting off
dictatorship around the Middle East. And as an Egyptian, there are questions over whether he can command full
allegiance
from the group's Saudi and Yemeni members.
An American government spokeswoman said it barely mattered who was running al-Qaeda because its ideology was bankrupt.
World News from the BBC
尼日利亚首都阿布贾警察局总部发生爆炸
A bomb has exploded outside Nigeria's national police headquarters in the capital Abuja, killing a number of people. The device is in a car that tried to join a convoy escorting a senior official into the headquarters. The car was spotted and diverted into the police building's car park, where it exploded. The Nigerian police believe the Islamic militant group Boko Haram is behind the bombing.
法航打捞出空难尸体法医将对其DNA和牙齿记录
Forensic experts in France will on Friday start the process of identifying the remains of 104 bodies
salvaged
from an Air France jet which crashed over the Atlantic two years ago. The bodies were