International pressure on Iran to accept a UN-brokered nuclear deal increased Monday, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying the country was at a "pivotal moment" to show it did not want to be isolated.
UN experts have begun inspecting Iran's controversial second uranium enrichment plant to verify whether the newly disclosed facility was designed for peaceful nuclear purposes.
The team of International Atomic Energy Agency scientists who arrived in Tehran early Sunday will spend three days in Iran as they inspect the facility being built inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom, south of the capital.
Four inspectors from the UN's atomic energy agency are in Iran to visit the controversial second uranium-enrichment plant. The trip came despite Tehran postponing its response to a UN-drafted plan for it to cut a stockpile of nuclear fuel.
The ongoing expenses scandal in the UK is on the front page of most British papers. Gordon Brown has been asked to pay back over £12,000 and has asked all MPs to comply with repayments in order to bring closure to the affair.
Police released the younger brother of a 32-year-old French engineer at the CERN nuclear research lab arrested for suspected links to al Qaeda. The researcher himself remains in detention.
North Korea says it has reached the final phase of uranium enrichment to build nuclear weapons and is also reprocessing spent fuel rods for a similar purpose.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday Iran would face further economic sanctions from Western powers if it did not enter into meaningful talks on its nuclear programme. Merkel said new sanctions would likely target the Iranian energy sector.
