LAGOS (UPI) -- Nigerian drug agents arrested an auto technician allegedly carrying five pounds of cocaine concealed in a roast chicken.　Nigeria‘s The Daily Times said the arrest was made during the weekend at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos while passengers were being cleared on a Turkish Airline flight from Sao Paulo.　Officials estimated the street value of the cache at $15 million.　Drug agents identified the suspect as Vincent Chegini Chinweuwa, the newspaper reported, who

　MYRTLE BEACH (UPI) -- A North Carolina dog, left at a farm in Virginia, traveled more than 500 miles on its own to try to make it home, his owner said.　Mark Wessells had taken his black Labrador to visit his father at a farm in Winchester, Va., thinking to leave Buck there while he was in the process of moving, The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News reported. Wessells said he couldn‘t take care of the dog temporarily.　“I wanted him to be up in Virginia where my dad has all this other property and he would

A British shop manager and his 7-year-old son drowned to death after the father, who was unable to swim, jumped into the ocean in a bid to save his son after a giant wave swept the boy away, according to news sources.George Selby, 27, and his son Louis were on vacation with their family in Majorca, a Spanish island, taking pictures at a popular tourist spot by the ocean when Louis was dragged off to sea by a wave. George immediately jumped in after his boy while Louis’ mother Abigail ran to a ne

Iran on Monday gave Mongolia's president a tour of its main uranium enrichment plant, the first time that it has opened the site to a foreign leader.The visit by President Tsakhia Elbegdorj follows a summit of emerging nations in Tehran that Iranian officials said would showcase the failure of Western sanctions to isolate Iran diplomatically.State TV showed Elbegdorj inspecting centrifuges used to

CAIRO (AP) ― A female Egyptian news presenter appeared on state television wearing a veil for the first time on Sunday after the Islamist-dominated government lifted an effective ban that had been in place for decades under secular-leaning regimes of the past. The ban on female news readers wearing the Islamic veil had long been criticized even by liberals and human rights activists as an infringement on personal freedoms ― particularly in a country where more than half of all adult women cover

ASEAN bloc needs to work on liberalizing the services sector and non-tariff barriersThe facts speak for themselves.Going by its “roadmap”, Asean will by 2015 become an economic community with a $2 trillion combined market and become a magnet for integration across the whole of East Asia, the world’s most dynamic region.This concept of an Asean Economic Community (AEC) was mooted in 1997 ― at the height of the Asian financial crisis.In their bid to keep Asean relevant amid the rise of China and I

In the heart of Aleppo, besieged by Syrian troops for more than five weeks, a young couple who found love in a time of war exchange vows.Bombs dropped in the distance, but for a moment, those attending the modest wedding ceremony in the Saif al-Dawla neighbourhood of Syria's second city were able to forget about the bloody conflict.The marriage was between rebel sniper Abu Khaled and Hanan, the nu

TEHRAN (AP) -- Iran’s sole reactor at the country’s Bushehr nuclear power plant has reached full capacity, a senior official said Saturday.　 Iran’s deputy nuclear chief, Mohammad Ahmadian, said the reactor was brought to its “full capacity of 1,000 megawatts” Friday evening. The reactor went into operation for the first time last year at minimum capacity.　 The Islamic Republic built the nuclear power plant in the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr with Russian help. The facility is a cornerst