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Indian Kashmir: Phenomenal skiing and big risks

Laurie Bowles, a dreadlocked 24-year-old Englishman, clipped his boots to his snowboard and lunged from the roof of the world into a gaping narrow gully of ice, sugar and powder.…

Ahmadinejad writes to Bush amid worsening nuclear crisis

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to United States President George Bush to ”propose new ways” to resolve a quarter-century of tensions between the arch-foes,…

Iran defies UN on nuclear drive

Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday rejected a United Nations Security Council demand to halt sensitive nuclear work and warned that the Islamic republic…

Iran issues stark warning to the US

Iran said on Friday it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime’s boldest challenges yet to the United States.…

Iran says nuclear drive is unstoppable

A defiant Iran vowed on Wednesday that nothing could halt its controversial nuclear programme, in a direct challenge to the United Nations Security Council that could risk…

Iran: Enrichment to start ‘in due course’

Iran said on Monday that large-scale uranium enrichment work, the focus of fears it is seeking nuclear weapons, will begin in ”due course” in response to the International Atomic…

German, French pair get 18 months in Iran jail

An Iranian court has jailed two men from France and Germany for 18 months for illegally entering the Islamic republic’s Gulf waters, as the government insisted the case was not…

Iran won’t back down over nuclear programme

Iran will not submit to Western demands to limit its disputed nuclear fuel drive and is prepared to maintain a freeze on sensitive activities only for a few more months, said…

Iran raises nuclear stakes

Iran has yet again raised the stakes in its long stand-off with the West over its nuclear programme and the risk of being referred to the United Nations Security Council, but…

Quake deaths could top 50 000

The death toll from the earthquake in southeast Iran could top 50 000, a local government official said on Tuesday, making it one of the most devastating natural disasters of…

Thousands gather in Tehran to watch hangings

Residents of the Iranian capital were given a public display of revolutionary justice on Sunday, with five convicted gang rapists executed by hanging at dawn.