VIENNA (AP) _ The chief of the U.N. nuclear agency says he has reached a deal with Iran on probing suspected work on nuclear weapons and adds that the agreement will ``be signed quite soon. ``Yukiya Amano says some details still need to be worked out. But he tells reporters that Iranian officials say that those will not stand in the way of signing the deal.Amano spoke Tuesday on return from Tehran

A former Boston University student who was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs on the Internet says he will continue fighting the penalty, despite the Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear his appeal.Joel Tenenbaum, 28, of Providence, Rhode Island, said he's hoping a federal judge will reduce the amount.``I can't believe the system would uphold a six-figure dama

The ruling party's leading presidential hopeful Park Geun-hye has sued the floor leader of the main opposition party for libel over allegations of Park's possible involvement in a massive bribery scandal related to a suspended savings bank, officials said Tuesday.The suit came after Rep. Park Jie-won of the Democratic United Party (DUP) claimed last week Park Geun-hye met with a key lobbyist for t

A Salem, Mass., woman was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon for trying to give her landlord scabies, police say. (MCT)Police were called to the woman's apartment building Saturday after she and her landlord got into an argument over bugs and mice in the building, The Salem News reported.The landlord called an exterminator to the building to deal with the woman's complaint, but the exter

Apple chief executive Tim Cook topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $300 million above his next rival, a Wall Street Journal survey showed Monday.Cook, who took the helm of the iPhone and iPad maker in August last year, two months before the death of founder Steve Jobs, clocked in total compensation of $378 million.Cook earned $900,

Parents of special education students at Mesquite High School in Mesquite, Texas, are outraged by a yearbook section that called their kids "mentally retarded."The Mesquite Independent School District wanted to honor students in the special education program with their own section of the yearbook. Spokeswoman Laura Jobe said the section read:"Some of the disabilities the students in the Special Ed

A four-term lawmaker close to leading presidential hopeful Park Geun-hye was selected Monday as the secretary general of the ruling Saenuri Party in a move expected to further consolidate Park's grip over the party seven months ahead of the presidential vote.As secretary general, Rep. Suh Byung-soo will take care of the budget and other general affairs of the party. Suh's appointment completes a s

An Anderson, S.C., cocker spaniel emerged unhurt after falling down a 30-foot-deep well, its owner said.Amanda Schronce and her family were working Friday to repair a home well when the 4-year-old dog, Reese, jumped on top of the well around 6:30 p.m. to get a look into the well house. Schronce told The Independent Mail the dog did it all the time.But the well cover had been removed earlier, so Re

NEW YORK (AP) _ A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy.Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, formerly of Columbia University, now says he no longer believes his work showed that.For the study, Spitzer had interviewed 200 people who'd claimed some degree of change. The ``fat

  India's richest family has released photos of what is believed the world's most expensive house, a 27-story behemoth worth more than $1 billion.Mukesh Ambani, who Forbes magazine estimates is worth more than $22 billion, released details about the interior of the home which includes marble floors, a multi-story garage, a large library, helipads, a spa and a Hindu temple, CNN reported Friday.Amba

 Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to ``married'' on Saturday.Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, California, home, capping a busy week for the couple.Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the Univer

 Israeli doctors say they were able to safely remove a toothbrush from a woman's stomach after she accidentally swallowed it.Bat-El Panker, 24, came home from work May 11, and went to brush her teeth. When she bent over the faucet with the toothbrush in her mouth, she said it slipped down her throat.Panker told Ynetnews she tried to get it out, but to no avail. She rushed to the hospital and had a

A coal miner was found alive Saturday after being  underground for 17 days following a flood in a northeast China coal mine, authorities said.Twenty-eight miners had been working underground at the time of the May 2 flood at the Junyuan No. 2 Coal Mine in Xing'an district of Hegang city in Heilongjiang Province, Xinhua reported.Ten of the miners escaped, five have been rescued, 10 have been confir

 MOSCOW (AP) _ Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who he said tried to kiss him on the lips as he walked down the red carpet for the Moscow premiere of ``Men in Black III.''The reporter from the Ukrainian television channel 1+1, Vitalii Sediuk, made headlines at the Venice Film Festival in September when he presented a bouquet of clearly unappreciated purple hydrangeas to

Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan pledged Thursday to make diplomatic efforts to press Beijing to swiftly release four South Korean activists who have been detained in China since late March.The four activists, including Kim Young-hwan, a senior researcher for the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights, a Seoul-based civic group for North Korean defectors, were arrested by Chinese police

 One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.The study of 400,000 people is the largest ever done on the issue, and the results should reassure an

At 18,239.5 pounds, the chocolate sculpture is the largest in the world (UPI)The Qzina Institute of Chocolate & Pastry in California announced it broke the world record for the largest chocolate sculpture by recreating a Mexican pyramid.The sculpture of the Kukulkan pyramid in Chichen Itza, created by corporate chef Francois Mellet, measures 6 feet high and 12 feet by 12 feet at its base.Guinness

North Korea has resumed construction of a new experimental light water reactor at its main nuclear complex, a U.S. institute said Wednesday, citing commercial satellite photos.The secretive communist nation appears to have almost completed work on the reactor containment building at Yongbyon, apparently a hub for its production of not only plutonium but also uranium, according to the U.S.-Korea In

A Wisconsin homeowner said a bear was able to break through a garage window and walk off with a 50-pound bag of sunflower seeds without puncturing the bag.Randy Murray of Lincoln County said he discovered a garage window was broken last week and further investigation revealed his large bag of sunflower seeds was missing, WAOW-TV, Wausau, reported Wednesday.“Must have been a crack in one of the win

The interim head of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP) set up an emergency committee Wednesday to revive the left-wing opposition party as it reels from a primary fraud scandal."We will immediately embark on activities to reform the party,"Kang Ki-kab, chairman of the UPP's emergency committee said in a news conference. The five-month-old party also plans to name outside figures as members of the