7 November 2013 Last updated at 08:19 GMT
Iran nuclear issue not insoluble, says FM Javad Zarif
Iran's foreign minister has expressed cautious optimism about upcoming talks on Iran's nuclear programme, saying the issue is "not insoluble".
World powers and Iran are due to meet in Geneva later on Thursday for a further round of discussions.
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the talks would be "highly laboured" but the aim was to "cross over the wall of distrust" created by Western policies.
The West suspects Iran of seeking to build nuclear weapons.
Tehran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.
Daniel Ortega moves to quash Nicaragua's presidential term limits
National Assembly asked to remove provision, already repudiated by court, that bans election twice in a row
Nicaragua's president, Daniel Ortega, is pushing for changes to the constitution that would cement his second term in office by removing provisions that appear to rule it invalid.
Critics have warned that if the change is enacted presidents would be able to serve unlimited consecutive terms in office.
Nicaraguan lawmakers on Wednesday began studying the proposal by Ortega to remove an article in the constitution intended to bar consecutive presidential terms.
The country's highest court has already allowed Ortega to serve a second consecutive term but an analyst said the president probably wanted to remove the wording from the charter to solidify that ruling and undercut criticism of his re-election.
'It was like a science-fiction movie': Chernobyl - site of the world’s worst nuclear accident revisited
Ever since he risked his life to fight the nuclear fires at Chernobyl, Anatoli Gubariev has dreaded a new catastrophe in the ruins of reactor No 4.
Hundreds of tons of radioactive dust and fuel are still buried there, covered with an edifice of concrete slabs and metal plates called the object shelter. It was hurriedly erected after the accident, and parts of the old reactor covering are now starting to collapse.
The worst recent incident was a radiation alert when the roof of the turbine hall fell in, forcing terrified workers to put on respirators and flee the site – and giving Ukrainians a nasty reminder that their Chernobyl problem has not gone away.
Israelis risk their lives to help Syrians
Most people who work for charity or an aid project have no reservations about being open about it, but a group of young Israelis are putting their lives in danger to deliver aid and medical assistance to Syrians.
Israeli doctors and aid workers are doing their work in secret because of the animosity between Syria and Israel - when they visit refugee camps on the border of Syria they have to change their clothes in order to blend in and have to be smuggled in and out.Syria does not recognize Israel and its citizens are banned from going there, which has meant that Israel has been anxious to stay out of the Syrian civil war, officially not doing anything for the over two million refugees who have fled. A small number of injured Syrians are being treated in Israel's hospitals, but that, on the surface, is the extent of Israeli help for the victims of the civil war.
However, one Israeli non-profit organisation has been working under the radar since 2005 around the world and in the last two years its attention has focused on Syria, providing up to 670 tonnes of food, 300,000 dry meals, 70 tonnes of sanitation items and 20 tonnes of medication.
"Muscle suit" star attraction at annual Tokyo robot exhibition
November 7, 2013 - 6:56PM
Pneumatic muscle suits and a walking stick that behaves like a guide dog competed for attention with an industrial robot that can paint fingernails at a huge expo in Tokyo Thursday.
In a country where a quarter of the 128-million population is aged over 65, innovations that can make life easier for the elderly or their caregivers are potentially big business and the subject of a lot of research.
A "muscle suit" that gives extra power to a carer to help them lift a bed-bound patient was one of the star attractions at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, which runs until Saturday.
Could crowd funding be the answer to hunting down Joseph Kony?
Can you crowd fund the hunt for a war criminal on the run deep in Africa's jungles?
A Canadian adventurer with experiences in Afghanistan and Somalia wants to raise funds and take a small band of former soldiers to find Joseph Kony.
Robert Young Pelton, whose plan has already drawn criticism from a pair of Africa experts, is the latest to join a line of private individuals and aid groups who are trying to corner the alleged mass murderer and members of his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
Kony remains elusive despite the deployment by US President Barack Obama in late 2011 of 100 US special forces to aid the hunt – which is mostly carried out by Ugandan troops – and the efforts by myriad private groups.
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