▼ Author Community Vote 56 days ago Alan Cowell Solar-Powered Plane Flies for 26 Hours - — PARIS — Slender as a stick insect, a solar-powered experimental airplane with a huge wing span completed its first test flight of more than 24 hours on Thursday, powered overnight by energy collected from the sun during a day aloft over Switzerland. 210 days ago Alan Cowell China Renews Opposition to Iran Sanctions - — PARIS — Reflecting a growing catalog of disputes between Washington and Beijing, a senior Chinese official said Thursday that pressure for tighter sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could block chances of a diplomatic settlement to the dispute. 211 days ago Alan Cowell Iran Says It Sent Animals Into Space - — PARIS — In what seemed designed as a display of advancing missile technology, Iran said on Wednesday that it had test-fired a rocket into space carrying living organisms — a rat, two turtles and worms, according to the official Press TV broadcaster. 233 days ago Alan Cowell Bomb Blast Kills Nuclear Physicist in Tehran - — PARIS — A bomb attached to a motorcycle killed an Iranian professor of nuclear physics outside his home in northern Tehran on Tuesday, state media reported, blaming the United States and Israel.. — There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. 238 days ago Alan Cowell Brown Survives Attempt to Unseat Him - — LONDON — Months before a national election, Prime Minister Gordon Brown appeared Thursday to have survived an attempt to unseat him by two senior figures in the governing Labour Party who issued an unusual appeal for a secret ballot on his leadership. 298 days ago Alan Cowell Chirac Ordered to Face Trial in France - — PARIS — An investigating magistrate on Friday ordered the former French president, Jacques Chirac, to stand trial on corruption charges dating from his time years ago as mayor of Paris, reinforcing the whiff of alleged malfeasance swirling around … 330 days ago Alan Cowell Iran Reported to Have Tested Long-Range Missiles - — PARIS — Locked in a deepening dispute with the United States and its allies over its nuclear program, Iran was reported Monday to have test-fired its longest-range missiles capable of striking Israel, parts of Europe and American bases … 340 days ago Alan Cowell Amid Protests, Iran Leader Calls Holocaust a Myth - — LONDON — Courting renewed international criticism, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on Friday called the Holocaust a myth as his country marked an annual pro-Palestinian demonstration amid reports of clashes between his supporters and opposition protesters. 166 days ago Alan Cowell In an Unusual Video, Obama Offers Iran a 'New Day' - — Invoking art, history and “the common humanity that binds us,” President Obama offered a “new day” in America's relationship with Iran, using an unusual videotaped message to appeal directly to Iranians for a shift away from decades of confrontation. 197 days ago Alan Cowell Afghan Civilian Deaths Rose 40 Percent in 2008, U.N. Says - — PARIS — Civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by 40 percent last year, the highest level since the American-led invasion in late 2001 that dislodged the Taliban government, a United Nations report said Tuesday.