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Tehran, February 23: Iran has selected 16 locations for the construction of nuclear power plants as part of a plan to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity at multiple sites over the next 15 years. State TV says today that experts at the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran have...

The opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has pulled out of a series of international meetings in protest at what it said was the "shameful" failure to stop violence. The SNC said it had decided not to attend a meeting of the Friends of Syria Grouping in Rome next month. It was also turning down invitations for talks in Washington and Moscow. A statement singled out Russia for supporting...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The former head of the United Nations, who helped save Kenya from spiraling deeper into election violence five...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that has defaced God's creation in a final address to the officials who run the Vatican bureaucracy. Benedict spoke off-the-cuff Saturday at the end of a weeklong spiritual retreat coinciding with the Catholic Church's solemn Lenten season. For the past week, Italian Cardinal...

CAIRO — A leading member of Egypt's most powerful Islamist party is criticizing calls by the opposition for a boycott of upcoming parliamentary elections. The deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Essam el-Erian, wrote on his Facebook page Saturday that "running away from a popular test only means that some want to assume executive authority without a democratic mandate." His comments come after opposition figure Mohammed ElBaradei called for a boycott of...

Michael McGlinchey hit a hat-trick as the Central Coast Mariners thrashed the Melbourne Victory to finish the day as they started - a point clear of the Western Sydney Warriors at the A-League...

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N'DJAMENA, Chad - The Chadian army says that its troops killed 65 Islamic extremist rebels and destroyed five vehicles in fierce...

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Mohamed Nasheed Ending eleven days of stalemate, ex-Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed on Saturday walked out of the Indian High Commission in Male where he was holed up since last Wednesday to evade an arrest warrant. Nasheed walked out of the mission at 4:15 pm (IST) after which India said it hoped that with this development the former President will again resume his social and political life. "We welcome this development,"...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi will modify the dates of upcoming parliamentary elections after requests from Christian lawmakers to...

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Islamabad, February 23: 17 people have been killed in a bus crash in northwestern Pakistan. Police officer Asif Sharif said that the victims were part of a wedding party. They were killed on February 22 when their bus plunged into a canal along a narrow road. He says...

The car sped off through the streets of the capital, pursued by members of the media on motorcycles, before it entered his uncle Arnold's home in the plush Pretoria suburb of Waterkloof. At least five private security guards stood outside the concrete walls, keeping reporters at bay. A South African court granted bail on Friday to Pistorius, charged with the murder of his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, after his lawyers successfully argued the Blade Runner was too famous to flee justice. The decision by Magistrate Desmond Nair drew cheers from the Paralympics star's family and...

Sceptics have frowned on Gayton McKenzie and his business partner Kenny Kunene’s incredible journey to wealth – after all they’re both ex-convicts. But who better to tell the story of rags to riches than the two men themselves in their book A Hustler’s Bible. The book, to be launched in Cape Town on Wednesday, not only offers insight into McKenzie and Kunene’s personal lives and their business struggles, but also shares tips and guidelines on how to get ahead. Speaking to the Saturday Star prior to the book launch, McKenzie said he was “excited” to see how the book would be received by the public. “The book is our way of giving back to South...

The Vatican has lashed out at the media for what it says are a series of defamatory and false media reports before the...

NEW DELHI — Angry villagers in western India threatened Saturday to resume a highway blockade unless police show progress in the search for suspects in the rape and killing of three young sisters. The girls' bodies were found Feb. 16 in a village well in Bhandara district of Maharashtra state after they had gone missing from school two days...

Zeenews Bureau Vatican: The Vatican on Saturday came down heavily on gossip generated around Pope Benedict XVI resignation. The Vatican's chief spokesperson, Father Federico Lombardi condemned media for spreading...

The Academy of Cannabis Culture and Technology in Seattle, Washington. Photo: Nick O'Malley I WAS part-way through an interview with a criminal defence attorney and an AIDS activist when a warm sensation stole over me. I had been in the activist's illegal grow house inspecting a little stainless-steel mixing bowl full of capsules of intensely concentrated cannabis oil that he had extracted the night before from two garbage bags full of buds. Their skin was greasy and they glowed a dull green when I held them up to the light. Half an hour later we were discussing the medical uses of pot when their voices seemed to fade out and I found myself gazing pleasantly at a door. "Can those things make...

BRUNEI police are investigating the death of a Malaysian woman found encased in a block of cement in her friend's garden, in the latest violent death to shock the sleepy sultanate. Voon Su Ching, 39, was reported missing by her husband on February 13 after she did not return home from an errand to buy...

POLICE in Taiwan have arrested a suspected grave robber thought to have stolen gold jewellery worth about half a million dollars from hundreds of...

Pope Benedict XVI has lamented the “evil, suffering and corruption” that has defaced God’s creation in a final address to the...

As many as 17 Taliban militants have been killed during a series of...

ADEN (Reuters) - Two people were killed and nine others were wounded in clashes between Yemeni security forces and separatists in the south of the country on Saturday, medical and security sources said. The clashes followed separatist demonstrations in Mukalla, Ghayl ba Wazir and Aden, capital of the former state of south Yemen which merged with the...

Top scientist scoffs at claims that fewer seeds plus less water can lead to better rice crop results People work on a rice field in Nalanda district, Bihar, India, where world record yields are said to have been achieved. Photograph: Chiara Goia/Observer Food Monthly China's leading rice scientist has questioned India's claims of a world record harvest, following a report in last week's Observer of astonishing yields achieved by farmers growing the crop in the state of Bihar. Professor Yuan Longping, known as the "father of rice", said he doubted whether the Indian government had properly verified young Indian farmer Sumant Kumar's claim that he had produced 22.4 tonnes of rice from one...

Auckland – Eoin Morgan and Joe Root ensured England completed a comfortable five-wicket victory over New Zealand in the third and final one day international match at Eden Park on Saturday to wrap up the series. Root (28 not out) and Morgan (39) built on the foundation laid by captain Alastair Cook (46) and Jonathan Trott (38) as England reached 186 for five...

Centurion – AB de Villiers hit his 16th Test century as South Africa posted 409 all out in their first innings on the second morning of the third Test against Pakistan on Saturday. Pakistan reached nine without loss at lunch with Mohammad Hafeez (one) and Imran Farhat (nine) safely negotiating their way...

SEOUL - North Korea on Sunday warned the top U.S. military commander stationed in South Korea that his forces would “meet a miserable destruction” if they go ahead with scheduled military drills with South Korean troops, North Korean state media said. Pak Rim-su, chief delegate of the North Korean military...

WASHINGTON: Indian-Americans have condemned the Hyderabad bomb blasts, demanding a speedy investigation into the incident to bring the...

Caracas - Hundreds of Venezuelans held a candlelight vigil Friday for President Hugo Chavez, praying for their leader while he remained in a hospital undergoing cancer treatment. Chavez's supporters gathered on a wide stairway in a hillside park near the presidential palace. They lit candles at sunset and sang along with a recording of a healthy Chavez belting out the national anthem. Some wiped away tears. Others closed their eyes and prayed. Some said they felt sad, yet still hopeful that Chavez might be able to survive. "We're praying for the president, for him to get through all of this," said Ana Perez, a seamstress holding a candle and shielding her flame from the breeze with a piece...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has lashed out at the media for what it says are a series of defamatory and false media reports...