US: An American Twitter user has been sent dozens of messages meant for England coach Roy Hodgson — because his user name on the site is @woy.

Iran plans to boost its output of crude oil to 4 million barrels a day before it will consider joining other suppliers in seeking ways to rebalance the global oil market.

Nuclear negotiations between Tehran and six other world powers were unlikely to finish late last night, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said, with diplomats reporting deadlock over a UN arms embargo and other sticking points.

The Plant Fair, which take place on Sunday September, 14 at Fota House, will be hosted by the Irish Specialist Nursery Association. 

A judge in southern Iran has ordered Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear court to answer complaints by individuals who say Facebook-owned applications Instagram and Whatsapp violate their privacy.

Authorities in Iran have arrested a man on charges of spying for Britain, according to media reports in the country.

Iran’s president has said Tehran wants an international settlement over its nuclear programme but will never give up uranium enrichment.

Two men have been publicly hanged after posting a video on YouTube showing them robbing and assaulting a man with a machete on a Tehran street, Iran’s state radio said.

Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with earthquake victims yesterday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two quakes killed nearly 300 people and injured about 5,000.

Iran is willing to continue talks with world powers over its nuclear programme until they reach a conclusion, a senior Iranian official said today in a report by the semi-official ISNA news agency.

The European Union said today that world powers have agreed to a new round of talks with Iran over its nuclear programme, as Tehran gave permission for inspectors to visit a site suspected of secret atomic work.

Iran has said it will allow UN inspectors access to a secret military complex where the UN nuclear agency suspects atomic work has been carried out.

Senior UN inspectors arrived in Iran yesterday to push for transparency about its disputed nuclear programme, and several European states halted purchases of Iranian oil as part of Western moves to pile pressure on a defiant Tehran.

Iran said it was very optimistic over a visit by UN nuclear inspectors aimed at shedding light on suspected military aspects of Tehran’s atomic work, but suggested Tehran would curb cooperation if the experts became a “tool” for outside powers.

TAHRIR Square in Cairo, Green Square in Tripoli, Syntagma Square in Athens and now Zuccotti Park in New York — popular anger against entrenching the power elite is spreading around the world.

AN Iranian woman blinded with acid by her suitor for turning down his marriage proposal spared him at the last minute from being blinded too as punishment for his crime, Iranian media reported on Sunday.

A pair of gunmen firing from motorcycles killed an Iranian physicist involved in the country's disputed nuclear programme today in an attack similar to other recent assassinations of scientists which Tehran has blamed on the US and Israel.

EGYPT’S military said yesterday it hoped to hand over power to an elected government in six months, but the Muslim Brotherhood said ending emergency law and freeing political prisoners would build a “bridge of confidence”.

AT least 77 people were killed in Sunday’s passenger plane crash in north-western Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported yesterday.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a mosque in south-eastern Iran, killing at least 15 people at a Shiite mourning ceremony, Iranian media reported.

RUSSIA will load fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant next week despite US demands to prevent Iran obtaining nuclear energy until the country proves that it’s not pursuing a weapons capacity, officials said yesterday.

Iran's nuclear chief said today that his country has produced 17kg (37.5lb) of uranium enriched to 20%, defying UN demands to halt the controversial programme.

THE Pentagon said yesterday that the US wanted a UN Security Council resolution “within weeks” to tackle Iran’s nuclear programme as Iran said it had begun making higher-grade nuclear fuel.

Iran’s senior politicians have rejected a UN-backed plan to ship much of the country’s uranium abroad for further enrichment.

A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in an area of south-eastern Iran that has been at the centre of a simmering Sunni insurgency, state media reported.

The disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June is raising questions about whether he defected and gave the West information on Iran’s nuclear programme.

IRAN’S opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi accused the authorities yesterday of using “medieval torture” to extract confessions from protesters on trial over the wave of post-election unrest.

A RUSSIAN-MADE Iranian passenger plane carrying 168 people crashed shortly after take-off yesterday, smashing into a field northwest of the capital and shattering into flaming pieces. All on board were killed in Iran’s worst air disaster in six years, officials said.

Iran has expanded its controversial nuclear programme by injecting gas into a second network of centrifuges to enrich uranium, a semi-official news agency reported today.

Iranian officials insisted the country was determined to push ahead with its nuclear program but were silent today over a new package of incentives to give up uranium enrichment amid intensified world pressure to accept the deal.

Iran’s vice president said today the decision to send Iran’s case to the UN Security Council has no legal justification.

Iran’s ultra-conservative president said tonight he hoped Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would die.

DISSIDENT Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji was last night reported to be continuing on hunger strikdespite claims from an official who said he was eating again.

Two teenagers have been executed after a religious court found them them guilty of homosexuality, pro-democracy groups in Iran have claimed.

IRAN’S supreme leader accused the US of stirring up trouble in the country after anti-regime protestors defied threats of a crackdown and took to the streets for a second night running.

Relatives of former Argentinean president Carlos Menem today denied claims that Iran bribed him to cover up a 1994 anti-Jewish bombing that killed 84 people.