TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia said on Tuesday it had shot down a small Russian reconnaissance drone over Georgian territory just south of the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani security guard Shabnam Jamshed seemed distracted when she left her Islamabad home for work last Saturday.

The Sudanese authorities say they have pinpointed the location at which 11 foreign tourists and their eight Egyptian guides are being held.

Relatives of a Palestinian who was shot dead after his car ploughed into a group of Israelis at a bus stop have denied it was a deliberate attack.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Police in London are investigating an apparent petrol bomb attack on the Iranian embassy which caused little damage and no injuries.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Monday that the turmoil on Wall Street was rooted in part in US military intervention abroad and voiced hope that the next American administration would retreat from what he called President Bush’s “logic of force.”

TEHRAN (FNA)- An earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale jolted the suburbs of the town of Salehabad in Iran’s western province of Ilam Saturday evening.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Most US residents want the White House to talk to leaders of Iran, North Korea and Cuba, a survey released Monday indicates.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Foreign ministers from the six powers are to meet Thursday in New York to discuss Iran’s nuclear issue, France said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a radio interview said the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency offers “the best guarantee” that Iran can enrich uranium for peaceful uses, and said the United States “should cease putting pressure” on the agency.