U.S. says Iranian president’s comments ‘disgusting, offensive and outrageous’NEW YORK (AP) ― Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday dismissed threats of military action against Iran’s nuclear program, arguing that his country’s project to enrich uranium is only for peaceful purposes and saying that Iran has no worries about a possible Israeli attack. Ahmadinejad spoke before a group of editors and news executives after his arrival in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly. He tol

A British court sentenced a man to three and a half years in prison for molesting a 10-year-old girl who caught the act on her Nintendo DS, officials said.John Fisher, 46, admitted touching the girl inappropriately in January 2010 and November 2011, after the photographic evidence was presented, Britain's The Daily Mirror reported Wednesday.Detective Constable Annabelle Bunn, the Suffolk police of

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shrugged off threats of a military strike on his country's nuclear facilities, showing defiance ahead of his final appearance at the UN General Assembly this week.In previous years, the Iranian leader has regularly sparked United Nations walkouts over his comments on Israel, and Israel's UN ambassador again marched out when Ahmadinejad appeared at a meeting on

Chinese ships plied the waters of a disputed island chain Monday, Japan's coastguard said, as a fleet of Taiwanese fishing boats set sail for the area, vowing to stake Taipei's claim.The flotilla, set to arrive Tuesday morning, will further complicate an already high-stakes confrontation between Tokyo and Beijing, in which Japan's prime minister has warned China's behavior could damage its own eco

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) ― Britain, France and Germany have officially called for new European Union sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, diplomats said Sunday.The foreign ministers of the three countries wrote to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton last week calling for tougher measures as the showdown with Tehran becomes more tense, a European diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity.The EU is working on more sanctions as President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad seeks to counter the press

Police in Hanoi have arrested a man for stabbing to death two of his father's neighbors in a fight over household waste, local media reported Monday.Nguyen Van Duong, 30, was charged with murder on Sunday, onlinenews site VietnamNet reported.Early Saturday Duong's father, Nguyen Van Lan, 56, told his neighbor Vuong Thi Thao, 41, not to leave rubbish out on their street ahead of the waste collectio

A British reporter has released a shocking documentary that exposes the disgraceful treatment of the dead and other transgressions by one of the U.K’s biggest funeral homes.Tom Ellis, an undercover reporter, worked for three months at Gillman Funeral Services, which has six branches in South London, all the while secretly filming the firm’s faults. Some of the faults include disrespectful behavior by staff and poor storage conditions for the deceased. The film shows an employee watching pornogra

A riot broke out when 3,000 people showed up for a birthday party for a 16-year-old girl who forgot to check “private” on a Facebook invitation, police said.The girl had expected a small gathering in her hometown of Haren when she posted the invitation on Facebook, Euronews reported Saturday.Some of the unexpected party-goers vandalized shops and looted a car before setting it on fire, and 600 pol

NEW YORK (AP) ― A man mauled by a 400-pound (180-kilogram) tiger at the Bronx Zoo told a police officer after he was rescued that he made a conscious decision to jump from an elevated monorail train into the animal’s den, a police spokesman said Saturday.A New York Police Department sergeant who responded to the scene Friday asked David Villalobos why he made his headline-grabbing leap, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.“Everybody in life makes choices,” Villalobos responded, according to the spok