Washington, Feb 14 : Former President George W Bush was saved by just 24 days from running up a five trillion dollar government debt, but his presidency saw the biggest increase in the national debt as compared to the reign of earlier presidents.

The latest posting on the Department of the Treasury website shows the national debt just hit 10.759-trillion dollars. And that 5-trillion dollars and change more than it was on the day President Bush took office on January 20, 2001, the CBS News reported.

Washington, Feb. 14 : A top US official has revealed that the unmanned Predator aircrafts which have been targeting militant hideouts in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan, are flown from an airbase inside Pakistan's territory.

Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, said CIA's unmanned aircrafts are being operated from an airbase inside Pakistan.

"As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base," The Daily Times quoted Feinstein, as saying.

Washington, February 14: While U.S. President Barack Obama's blackberry has been claimed to be a spy-proof device, the world''s most famous hacker Kevin Mitnick says that it can still be breached.

He said that Obama''s super-secure BlackBerry only makes cracking into it more challenging, but it can still be done.

"It's a long shot, but it''s possible. You''d probably need to be pretty sophisticated, but there''s people out there who are," Fox News quoted Mitnick as saying.

Washington, Feb 14: The Taliban, which follows an extremely strict and anti-modern ideology, are well known for banning music, movies and all sorts of conveniences are no more averse to latest iPhones.

The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan until late 2001, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, surprised Al Jazeera reporter Hamish Macdonald during an interview earlier this month when whipped out his iPhone.

Washington  - Since her youth, Shirin Nariman has been going to demonstrations.

But while with 16, the Iranian woman was sent to prison because of her political activism, today, more than 20 years later, she can speak freely. Her concerns have remained the same: the overthrow of the Iranian government in favour of a secular democracy.

On Friday, she attended a small rally in front of the White House in Washington, with a few dozen others to protest the planned closure of a refugee camp in Iraq for refugees of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

For the Iranians in exile, it was a shock when in January Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki announced he intended to close Camp Ashraf within two months.

Washington  - US President Barack Obama's economic recovery package was set to clear its final hurdles Friday as both houses of Congress voted on a nearly
790-billion-dollar compromise bill to help pull the United States out of recession.

The House of Representatives approved the stimulus package - the largest single spending proposal in US history - by a vote of 246-183 Friday afternoon. The Senate was expected to follow suit Friday evening.