TEHRAN (FNA)- Prominent Reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comment on the Holocaust has cost Iran an arm and a leg.

TEHRAN (FNA)- World figures will convene in Tehran to attend ‘Religion in the Modern World’ conference hosted by the Foundation for Dialogue among Civilizations.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A car bomb killed nine people and wounded 13 in the Bayaa district of southern Baghdad on Sunday, police said.The bomb exploded in a car parked on a busy commercial street in Bayaa, a mainly Shi’ite area, police said, adding the death toll could rise.

PLESETSK COSMODROME, Russia (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev oversaw the test firing of an intercontinental Topol missile on Sunday and vowed to commission new generation weapons for Russia’s armed forces.

VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuanians began voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday against a backdrop of double-digit inflation and fears its once high flying economy will be sucked into the global financial crisis.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan and NATO-led forces killed 65 Taliban militants preparing to attack the provincial capital of the southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor’s spokesman Daud Ahmadi said on Sunday.

Hundreds of Iraqi Christians have reportedly fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul over the past week, following a wave of killings aimed against them.

TEHRAN (FNA)- New York is displaying examples of Persian calligraphy in the ‘Traces of the Calligrapher’ and ‘Writing the Word of God’ exhibitions.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Vice President for Media Affairs Mehdi Kalhor said on Saturday that Iran has set two preconditions for holding talks with the United States of America.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran denied a recent report alleging that a $2 billion gas deal was signed by the National Iranian Gas Company and the UAE’s Crescent Petroleum on Friday.