Major powers plan to offer to ease sanctions barring trade in gold and other precious metals with Iran in return for Iranian steps to shut down the nation’s newly expanded Fordow uranium enrichment plant, Western officials said on Friday.
The officials said the offer is to be presented to Iran at February 26 talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and they acknowledged that...
Facebook can insist that its customers use their real personal data when registering on the site, a German court ruled in a decision published on Friday.
The administrative court in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein slapped down an order from regional data protection officials that Facebook change its policy on collecting personal details.
Facebook asks its customers...
Thousands of Islamists protested in Cairo on Friday against violence that has marred anti-government demonstrations, showing support for President Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood politician elected head of state last year.
The “Together against Violence” rally was called by a hardline Salafi Islamist group that waged an armed revolt against the state...
Thousands of Islamists protested in Cairo on Friday against violence that has marred anti-government demonstrations, showing support for President Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood politician elected head of state last year.
The “Together against Violence” rally was called by a hardline Salafi Islamist group that waged an armed revolt against the state...
Britain’s food regulator said it had found 29 positive tests for horsemeat after demanding samples from UK retailers engulfed in a contamination scandal that is spreading across Europe.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) on Friday said it had conducted 2,501 tests, 2,472 of which had come back negative for horsemeat levels above 1 percent, with 29 results testing positive...
From the £12 million dress to the £322,000 wedding venue, couples with cash to splash aren’t short of options.
Now brides-to-be with Petra Ecclestone tendencies have a new way to lavish money on their wedding after a cake worth millions was unveiled ahead of The National Gay Wedding Show.
The extravagant six tier high dessert is one-and-a-half metres tall and is...
set to build the world’s largest Ferris wheel, nearly 250ft taller than the London Eye, to be completed in 2015.
Called the ‘Dubai Eye’ is set to be 690ft tall, and attract more than three million visitors a year.
The attraction is part of a one billion pound entertainment project called The Bluewaters Island, which was approved today.
The fake island will take...
Almost one in five reptiles is facing extinction due to man-made habitat loss, experts warned today.
The first global assessment of its kind of reptile species, which include crocodiles, lizards, snakes, tortoises and turtles, estimated that 19% of them are struggling to survive.
Of those under threat, 12% are considered to be critically endangered, meaning they are at...
A photo of Gazans taking two children and their father killed in an Israeli air strike for burial has won the 2013 World Press Photo award for Swedish photographer Paul Hansen, judges said Friday.
The staff shooter for the Dagens Nyheter daily took the image of the funeral procession carrying carrying two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and her three-year-old brother Muhammad down...
South African ‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears on Friday after he was charged in court with shooting dead his girlfriend in his Pretoria house.
The 26-year-old Olympic and Paralympic superstar stood with head bowed in front of magistrate Desmond Nair to hear the murder charge read out, then started sobbing, covering his face with his hands.
Prosecutors...
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