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AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE EDINBURGH: Scottish nationalists launched an official "yes" campaign for independence today ahead of a likely 2014 referendum on severing the more than 300-year-old union with England. First Minister Alex Salmond said the semi-autonomous region should run its own foreign, economic and defence policies, and promised that he would try to get one million Scots to sign a declaration of support.

By SAPA REUTERS (File image) Iran's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh. Photo: REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger The UN atomic watchdog said Friday that it has detected in Iran traces of higher-grade uranium than Tehran had said it was enriching, but that the Iranians had said it may be down to a technical error. "The results of analysis of environmental samples ...

VIRGINIA WATER, England - Leaders Peter Lawrie and David Drysdale each shot 6-under 66s Thursday at the BMW PGA Championship, leaving a frustrated top- ranked Rory McIlroy and his high-ranking rivals trailing after the first round. McIlroy had five bogeys and a double bogey in his round of 74 to go with three birdies and an eagle.

Mohammed Ghobari , Isabel Coles Friday 25 May 2012 A suicide bomber drove into a school in northern Yemen's al-Jawf province where members of a Shi'ite Muslim rebel group had gathered for Friday prayers and killed 12 people, the defence ministry said. A local official said several people were wounded in the attack.

May 26, 2012 An image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows an anti-regime demonstration in the Daraa province Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets on Friday as more than 30 people were reportedly killed across Syria, while security forces deployed tanks and helicopter gunships against rebels. The latest violence came as Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria