World powers turn up heat on Iran

World powers have increased pressure on Iran, urging the country to reveal the nature of its nuclear programme during six-party talks in Geneva on Thursday.

A spokesman for the German chancellor said Iran was "comprehensively failing to co-operate".

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran was the wrong side of the law in hiding a second uranium plant.

Tehran revealed the existence of the previously secret site, partially built into a mountain, last week.

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Up to 1,000 killed by earthquake in Indonesia's Sumatra

The earthquake struck at 5.16pm (10.16 GMT), 78 kilometres (48 miles) southwest of the city of Padang in West Sumatra, along the same fault line that spawned the 2004 Asian tsunami.

According to US Geological Survey, it measured 7.9 on the Richter scale, just shy of the size of earthquake that sparked a tsumani, devastating the Pacific islands of American and Western Samoa to the east of Australia on Tuesday.

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