The very existence of the technology, known as a “two-point implosion” device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the design. The development was today described by nuclear experts as “breathtaking” and has added urgency to the effort to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.

Forty-four-year-old Daniel Allen of Clinton Township faces charges of assault with intent to maim, assault with intent to commit great bodily harm and possession or use of a harmful device.

The Detroit News reports Allen was bound over Monday to stand trial in Macomb County Circuit Court, where he will appear Nov. 16.

Winfred Fernandis Jr. says he confronted Allen Oct. 18 over a football children had tossed into Allen’s yard. Fernandis says Allen bit him in the face.

Allen says he is HIV positive.

“He is in good humor,” read the email, “but wants to come home.” No wonder he was keen to hurtle back earthwards, Tunde told me his cousin had accumulated almost $15 million in pay. For the price of my bank account details, I could claim 20 percent and fly the brave chap home to collect my portion of the earnings and transfer the rest on to him like the good space-supporter that I was.

This classic 419 scam is indeed far-fetched but one aspect of it is true.

Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said Anthony Sowell was walking down the street on the east side of Cleveland when authorities spotted him and took him into custody.

Sowell initially denied he was the man authorities were looking for but admitted his identity as officers began fingerprinting him, Stacho said. Charges against him are pending.

Officers initially identified three bodies at Sowell’s home, Stacho said. Powell Caesar, a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County coroner’s office, said additional remains were found and confirmed Saturday as three more bodies, for a total of six.

As of late Monday, two suspects had been arrested in the case and a third was being questioned.

“There is one individual in custody who has made some spontaneous statements that have led me to believe that he is culpable for what happened,” Richmond police Lt. Johan Simon said.

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Bair said she “strongly supports” the creation of a consumer financial protection agency, which would shield Americans from confusing credit card and mortgage offers. Bair also expressed regret that existing regulations hadn’t done more to prevent the crisis.

Karadzic, who has denied all 11 war crimes charges arising from the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including genocide, is representing himself and had threatened to boycott the start of the trial, saying he needed more time to prepare.

Although the world’s attention has been focused on the tragedy in the Darfur region of western Sudan, administration officials argued Monday that a faltering peace accord that ended Africa’s longest-running conflict is under increasing strain and needs to be repaired. If that deal — brokered by the Bush administration in 2005 — collapses, officials and analysts say, then hope will be lost for a solution to Darfur. The two-decade conflict between north and south led to the deaths of 2 million people.

Russian and U.S. negotiators are in talks to find agreement on a new bilateral pact cutting stocks of strategic nuclear weapons. Both sides are working to a December deadline for a new treaty to replace the landmark Cold War-era START pact.

While Moscow and Washington have made progress in strategic nuclear arms talks, Russia’s security may come under threat from regional conflicts and local wars, Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Kremlin’s powerful Security Council, said in an interview with Izvestia newspaper to be published on Wednesday.