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by Veronica Smith | May 26, 2012 The Obama administration on Friday rejected calls within Congress to brand China a currency manipulator, but said its "significantly undervalued" currency was a key brake on global growth. The US Treasury Department said China had not met the standards for manipulation of the yuan, also known as the renminbi, to gain an unfair competitive trade advantage.

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 ...

Zhang Yongming, 56, was detained two weeks ago in ChinaБ─(tm)s Yunnan province over the murder of a 19-year-old man. Police searching ZhangБ─(tm)s home found the missing manБ─(tm)s cellphone, bank card and other evidence. Cops fear he is also behind the disappearance of a dozen other teenagers who have vanished from his village over the years.

Photo: Can Djokovic add the French Open title to his trophy cabinet? (Alex Livesey: Getty Images) Novak Djokovic's bid to become the first man in 43 years to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time hit its first hurdle on Friday when Roger Federer became a potential French Open semi-final opponent. World number one Djokovic, three times a semi-finalist in Paris, is the top seed at the French Open with Federer, the 2009 champion, seeded three and

0 China hit back on Friday at the US State Department's annual survey of human rights, saying that only the Chinese people could pass judgment on what the Foreign Ministry said were the country's obvious achievements in the area. Asked about criticism of China in the report, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei condemned it for being prejudiced.