Amid concerns of threats to its Bushehr power plant, Iran's Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Head Ali-Akbar Salehi warned Tuesday that attacking nuclear plants is an "international crime," the local satellite Press TV reported.
Chinese experts on Tuesday refuted claims by the Pentagon released in a report that China is developing cyberwarfare capabilities, saying that the US military was attempting to blacken China's image.
NATO has established a new division to deal with emerging non-traditional security threats from terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, cyber attack and so forth, the alliance said in a statement on Wednesday.
The man who killed 8 people and himself in a beer warehouse shooting rampage in Manchester, Connecticut had six guns registered to him, and targeted managers who got him to resign, the police said Wednesday as they recounted the event a day before.
The long battle against the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill is close to an end, US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.
Forty US billionaires or their families pledged on Wednesday to give over half of their money to charity, according to a philanthropy drive organized by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and legendary investor Warren Buffett.
Five fishermen are missing after their fishing boat collided with an unknown vessel that then fled off the coast of south China's Guangdong province early on Wednesday, local authorities said.
The European Commission said Wednesday that Romania has met the conditions to receive the third disbursement of loans from the European Union.
The US service sector grew in July for the seventh consecutive month, at a faster pace than recorded in June, an industry research group reported Wednesday.
Ford Motor Co on Tuesday reported a 3.1-percent increase in sales for July compared to the same month last year.
Worldwide spending on information technology (IT) rebounded quickly and beat expectations in the first half of 2010, but still faces an uncertain future due to the possibility of a double-dip economic recession, research firm IDC said on Tuesday.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday that the country's unemployment rate may rise further before falling back.