COTONOU, Benin (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday defended his country’s controversial nuclear programme while on a tour of west Africa, calling it peaceful and arguing that Tehran has no use for an atomic bomb.Speaking during a visit to Benin, the first stop on a ...

BRISTOL (OC) Living up to its name, the Atomic Fallout burger is so hot that owners of the Atomic Burger restaurant, in Bristol, England, require daredevils to sign a waiver and wear protective gloves so not to burn their hands. According to restaurant owner Martin Bunce, the sauce in the ...

VIENNA (AFP) - The head of the UN atomic agency said Monday he wants to hold more talks with Iran on suspicions of past nuclear weapons research activities, despite the failure of a string of meetings this year.Speaking at the start of a week-long annual gathering of the International Atomic Energy ...

Israel will not allow Iran to obtain atomic bombs but prefers a peaceful solution to the issue, Israel's prime minister said Thursday after talks in Washington about Iran's nuclear program. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Israeli TV stations a day after returning from talks with President Barack Obama ...

KAMAISHI, Japan, (AFP) - Workers were close to restoring power to a nuclear plants overheating reactors Sunday as the toll of dead or missing from Japans worst natural disaster in nearly a century neared 21,000. Amid the devastation on the northeast coast left by a March 11 quake and tsunami, ...

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has, over the years, built an extensive infrastructure for contributing to the socio-economic uplift of the country. Its activities span a wide spectrum: from nuclear power generation to minerals development, from developing high yielding, stress tolerant ...