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.

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.

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.

One of the world’s rarest stamps is going up for auction this weekend and could fetch a record-breaking price, the head of a Geneva auction house said.

A 13-YEAR-OLD American boy became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mount Everest on Saturday, surpassing the previous record set by a 16-year-old Nepalese.

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