Iran hanged an Israeli spy to show that it had entered a "serious intelligence war" with Israel, the official IRNA news agency quoted an official of counter-espionage of Iran's Intelligence Ministry as saying on Saturday.
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has been ordered to stand trial for his role in an alleged plot to smear Nicolas Sarkozy, now president, when they were rival ministers.
Two shuttle Endeavour astronauts slipped outside to the vacuum of space on Saturday to clean and repair a contaminated joint in the International Space Station's external frame, a key step to restoring the outpost to full power.
Iran hanged an Israeli spy to show that it had entered a "serious intelligence war" with Israel, the official IRNA news agency quoted an official of counter-espionage of Iran's Intelligence Ministry as saying on Saturday.
Just ahead of the 725th anniversary of the Pied Piper reputedly banishing a plague of rats from Hamelin, there has been an "explosion" in the German town's rodent population, officials said Tuesday.
A Saudi supertanker hijacked by pirates with a $100 million oil cargo was thought to have anchored off Somalia yesterday, the shipping arm of state oil giant Saudi Aramco said.
