TEHRAN (AFP) ― Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, state television reported on Sunday, quoting the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization.“Iran will build a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bushehr next year,” the television quoted Fereydoon Abbasi Davani as saying. He was referring to the Iranian calendar year running from March 2013 to March 2014.The Mehr news agency suggested the timeline c

VATICAN CITY (AFP) ― The Vatican is hunting for the masterminds of leaks that have enraged the Holy See, with few believing the pope’s arrested butler was behind the scandal, Italian media reported on Sunday.Vatican officials confirmed Saturday that Pope Benedict XVI’s personal butler Paolo Gabriele was arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential documents from the pontiff’s private study after secret papers were found in his home.His arrest was greeted with disbelief as the 46-year-old Gabrie

(MCT)A German girl has been rescued by Bosnian police after allegedly being held captive by a couple for eight years during which she was forced to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart.A neighbor who raised the alarm told AFP he witnessed the couple treating the girl, now 19, like an animal. Milenko and Slavojka Marinkovic were arrested at their home in a village in the northwestern Tuzla region aft

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― The private company SpaceX made history Friday with the docking of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the most impressive feat yet in turning routine spaceflight over to the commercial sector.It marked the first time a business enterprise delivered a supply ship to the space station.“There’s so much that could have gone wrong and it went right,” said an elated Elon Musk, the young, driven billionaire behind SpaceX.“This really is, I think, going

CNN reported that it recently took a look at what some says “the world’s nicest prison” in Norway where neither the prisoners nor the guards wear uniforms.Bastoy Prison, located on a one-square-mile island in southern Norway, is dotted with pine trees, rocky coasts, rustic farms and private cottages. The inmates have keys to their own rooms, the broadcaster reported."It's still prison," one inmate

This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed Friday, May 25, 2012 purports to show a wounded child being evacuated in Aleppo, Syria. (AP-Yonhap News)At least 90 people, many of them children, were killed in a town in the restive province of Homs in Syria in an attack by government forces, activists said.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.N.-Arab League speci

Police in Massachusetts attempting to deal with a herd of loose cows said the beer-loving bovines crashed a backyard party and cleared it of brews.(MCT)Boxford Police Lt. James Riter said he was directing traffic around the herd on Main Street when the cows took off for the back yard of a nearby home, The Boston Globe reported Friday."I could hear screaming coming from the back of the house. When

A man who went to hospital with a kidney stone received the shock of his life when told he was actually a female. Steve Crecelius, a professional photographer from Colorado, had been born with both male and female traits but had tried to ignore his female side.Having discovered his intersexuality, Crecelius has chosen to bring out his feminine side by taking hormones.His wife and family have been