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VIENNA (AP) - The International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Iran's nuclear program is at a dead end because Tehran is not cooperating, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Thursday in an unusually blunt expression of frustration four days before he leaves office.

Mohamed ElBaradei also warned that international confidence in Iran's assertions of purely peaceful intent shran...

Dubai became one of the most conspicuously wealthy Arab states, boasting the world's tallest tower and an indoor ski slope. The extensive property development was aimed at reshaping Dubai as a tourism capital. But property prices have fallen by around 50% in a year as the global economy crashed.

The trial of John Demjanjuk, which starts on Monday, is likely to be the last major case of its kind in Germany, in what has become a race against the clock to bring elderly war criminals to justice.



On Monday the 89-year-old Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk faces charges in Munich that he helped murder 27,900 pe...

A paralympic champion who dragged himself through an airport after a budget airline made him check in his wheelchair has received an apology.


Kurt Fearnley is a two-time paralympic marathon champion

Kurt Fearnley had just crawled along a 60-mile jungle track in Papua New Guinea.

A Swiss man has failed in his bid to become the first person to fly solo across the Strait of Gibraltar using a single jet-propelled wing.

Yves Rossy ditched into the water and had to be rescued after he set off from above Tangier in Morocco.

It is not known what went wrong with 50-year-old Mr Ro...

Forensic officers at Policing Board headquarters examine a car which contained a 400lb bomb

Dissident republicans have been blamed for leaving a car containing a 400lb bomb outside the Policing Board's headquarters in Belfast.

The device in the car, which earlier on Sa...

Some passengers were trapped in the derailed carriages

Maoist rebels in India have blown up a railway track, leading to the derailment of a passenger train in the eastern state of Jharkhand, police say.

At least two people were killed and 47 others injured in the incident, which happen...

A policeman helping to battle floods in Cumbria is missing along with ten other people in the area.