Seeking to evade new UN sanctions, Iran on Monday formally submitted its plan to swap some of its enriched uranium for reactor fuel and said the onus was on world powers to defuse tensions by acceptin

The White House said on Monday that US President Barack Obama “fully supports” the South Korean President and his response to the torpedo attack by North Korea that killed 46 South Korean sailors.

The Los Angeles police says the husband of deceased actress Brittany Murphy has been found dead.

Three past winners of the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival — Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Abbas Kiarostami — are in the running for the same award again as 19 films compete at the world’s premier cinema showcase.

US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Sunday that she would be pushing the Chinese for a “more balanced economic relationship” with the US in upcoming economic and strategic talks in Beijing.

Israel held a dress rehearsal for disaster on Sunday, beginning a defence drill to test the response of soldiers, emergency crews and civilians to simulated missile barrages, terrorist attacks and chemical strikes.

South Korea will take Pyongyang to the UN Security Council as part of measures it will pursue over the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on a North Korean torpedo attack, officials said.

The Taliban say they are not attending peace talks with the Afghan government in the Maldives.

A Facebook page that was considered offensive to Islam and led to a Pakistani ban on the site has been removed, possibly by its creator.

A judge in Brazil has ordered the arrest of a Polish priest suspected of sexually abusing a teenager in a Rio de Janeiro suburb, authorities said on Friday.