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Top Iranian lawmaker plays down development, says Tehran has enough material.

Rose Oyungu accused of stealing belongings from body of victim of shopping centre siege.

Children show a bias towards attractive people when asked who to trust.

Former head of US National Security Agency had private phone conversation tweeted live by a passenger.

Iran's time-scale to produce weapons-grade uranium 'shortening'.

Fire and collapsed roof at Dulces Blueberry plant leaves one dead and 40 injured.

DEA spokesman says labs in China, Russia and India are creating potentially 'disturbing drug trends'.

High court in Shandong province rejects Bo Xilai's appeal against verdict.

A court in eastern China rejected an appeal by ousted senior politician Bo Xilai on Friday (October 25) and upheld his life sentence on charges of bribery, corruption and abuse of power.

New disclosures reveal NSA tapped into the telephone calls of 35 world leaders.

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi rejects claims that Muslims bear brunt of violence across Myanmar.

Halloween outfits that might not scare too many people but could lead to a visit from the police.

Bulgarian police believe Roma woman Sasha Ruseva might be the mother of blonde girl found in Roma camp.

Military moves in to block resurgence of terrorism in north African country.

Thousands of women attempt to break breast feeding record as challenge to social taboo.

A trip along Africa's Cape coast takes in its naval history and unique Jackass penguins.

Hopes fade to find remains of last missing victim, Russel Rebello.

Vets in Berlin are reporting an increase in pets being brought in for drug poisoning.

Naturalist David Mizejewski says a zombie apocalypse would be defeated by Mother Nature.

Germany, France, Brazil, Mexico and Italy were targeted by tapping programme.

Chinese police confiscate 750kg of smuggled human hair in border town of Ruili.

Author Kevin Morris on the media's over-reaction to self-published books on rape and incest being discovered on WH Smith's website.

China's ability to bag sophisticated defence deals and growing clout worry US.

Traces of gold found in Eucalyptus trees by scientists in Australia.

Former member of right-wing Hungarian Jobbik party converts after discovering his Jewish heritage

New South Wales mourns pilot who died trying to fight raging wildfires.

Outbreak which started in Haiti now ravaging Mexico - and experts warn of 'global threat to health'.

Fifty people killed by cholera outbreak in northwestern state of Zamfara in last 10 days.

German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle to discuss NSA eavesdropping with US envoy in Berlin, John Emerson.