Clippers broadcasters suspended 1 game for remarks about Iranian Haddadi. Clippers longtime play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler and color analyst Michael Smith were suspended one game by the Fox Sports Prime Ticket cable network for their comments about Memphis center Hamed Haddadi.

President Barack Obama on Sunday won the strongest backing yet from Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the Iranian nuclear crisis as the US leader warned that Tehran was "running out of time".

The UN atomic agency unveils its latest report on Iran's disputed nuclear drive Monday, with world powers warning Tehran is "running out of time" to respond to a UN-brokered offer to end the standoff.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama faces tensions with China over trade and Tibet on his first visit to the emerging superpower for a summit that will grapple with economic imbalances and the future of the yuan currency.

Iran has hanged a convicted rapist in a public square in the northern city of Qaemshahr in the Caspian Sea Mazandaran province, the Kayhan newspaper reported on Monday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks on a stalled trans-national gas pipeline and a possible Indian prime ministerial visit to Iran, officials said.

US President Barack Obama will try Monday to break out of the official constraints of his maiden state visit to China and seek to talk directly to Chinese people in a live dialogue via the Internet.

US President Barack Obama will try Monday to break out of the official constraints of his maiden state visit to China and seek to talk directly to Chinese people in a live dialogue via the Internet.

US President Barack Obama Monday pushed for an unshackled Internet and political freedoms as he starred in a live streaming webcast from China on the first day of his visit to the Asian giant.

US President Barack Obama on Monday hailed improvements in relations between China and Taiwan, saying there was no need to change Washington's "one-China" policy.

The UN atomic agency unveils its latest report on Iran's disputed nuclear drive Monday, with world powers warning Tehran is "running out of time" to respond to a UN-brokered offer to end the standoff.

The families of three US hikers detained in Iran voiced concern Sunday about their loved ones' mental state after weeks of semi-isolation in a Tehran prison, and are asking people to send them messages of support.

The families of three US hikers detained in Iran voiced concern Sunday about their loved ones' mental state after weeks of semi-isolation in a Tehran prison, and are asking people to send them messages of support.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia announced the latest delay to Iran's first nuclear power station on Monday, saying that technical issues would prevent its engineers from starting up the reactor at the Bushehr plant by the year-end.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks on a stalled trans-national gas pipeline and a possible Indian prime ministerial visit to Iran, officials said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks on a stalled trans-national gas pipeline and a possible Indian prime ministerial visit to Iran, officials said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks on a stalled trans-national gas pipeline and a possible Indian prime ministerial visit to Iran, officials said.

Planned Iranian news agency yields first story line: Will elite military force act as editors?. The portfolio of Iran's Revolutionary Guard keeps on growing. Its troops watch over nuclear facilities, its rocket scientists enlarge Iran's missile arsenal and its engineers have taken on a rail line as their latest big-ticket project. Could media mogul be next?

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the country's nuclear rights were not negotiable, the student news agency ISNA reported on Monday.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday the "enemies" of his country's nuclear programme had been defeated ahead of the release of the latest UN report on the atomic drive.