Iran says it has found major new uranium deposits and is planning to expand its nuclear power programme.

• February 23, 2013

Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereidoon Abbasi, said that the upcoming nuclear talks between Tehran and the P5+1 -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany -- should focus on "cooperation," Tehran Times daily reported on Thursday.

• February 21, 2013

The United States is locked in a tight race with China and Russia to build destructive cyberweapons capable of seriously damaging other nations’ critical infrastructure, according to a leading expert on hostilities waged via the Internet.

• February 20, 2013

South Korea will hold a nuclear cooperation forum in South Africa on Wednesday (South African time) to create a friendly atmosphere to bid for the upcoming orders of nuclear power plants from the African country.

• February 20, 2013

Adding a new dimension to their strategic ties, India and the UK today decided to start negotiations on a civil nuclear pact to facilitate entry of British companies into emerging atomic power sector here.

• February 19, 2013

India wants a share in gas fields in Turkmenistan from where the proposed $9-billion transnational gas pipeline will cross terrorist-infested regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan to deliver gas across the Punjab border.

• February 18, 2013

Kim Kwang-jin says that when he worked for North Korea's state insurance company in Singapore in 2003, he stuffed $20 million into two suitcases one day and sent it to Pyongyang as a special gift for then leader Kim Jong-il.

• February 18, 2013

Ukraine has reached a tentative agreement with Turkmenistan to resume imports of natural gas from the Central Asian country.

• February 16, 2013