NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

WORLD/ PAKISTAN UNDER PRESSURE OVER BIN LADEN: Pakistan's prime minister said today that spy agencies worldwide share the blame for his country's failure to capture Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by US forces. "We have intelligence failure of the rest of the world including the United States," PM Yousuf Raza Gilani said. Pakistan has been criticized for not locating Bin Laden, who was living near the country's main military academy. Several governments in Europe also say Islamabad has questions to answer about what it knew. The CIA head has said the US did not tell Islamabad of the raid in advance, for fear it would be jeopardized. Meanwhile, the US has revised its account of how the operation took place. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Tuesday that Bin Laden was not armed when his compound was stormed by US special forces in the early hours of Monday. Initially US officials had said the al-Qaeda chief was shot while taking part in a firefight. Carney blamed the initial confusion on the need to provide detailed accounts of a complex military operation quickly. US officials have said they are considering when to make public their photographs of his body. Carney said the "gruesome" image could inflame sensitivities, but the head of the CIA said there was no question it would at some point be shown to the public. More details on the killing of Bin Laden can be found in a speical edition of Time magazine, out today.

WORLD/ AUSSIE POLICE WELCOME NEW RECRUITS: The NSW Police Force Dog Unit in Australia has welcomed the birth of 7 Labrador detection puppies to its ranks and is turning to the public to pick out names for them. The pups, 3 males and 4 females, will one day hunt down criminals, but for now they're a cute and cuddly bunch of beige and black Labradors. Born to blonde-Labrador mother Bonnie and black-Labrador father Fanta, a seasoned detection dog with the Queensland Police Service, the pups will be named by the public via a "Police Puppy Poll" launched by the Dog Unit on Facebook. The pups will stay with their mother until they are 12 weeks old before beginning training in their new line of work. They have been bred to have all the traits of a good detection dog and will one day be sworn in as canine constables. They will play catch like regular dogs but instead of balls and sticks they will retrieve drugs and explosives and help find victims of disasters.