BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said on Monday it had accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians, including a child, while pursuing al Qaeda fighters south of Baghdad.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Visiting Iraqi Electricity Minister Karim Wahid al-Hasan met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here in Tehran on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s first space centre was inaugurated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in Muscat on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – UN nuclear chief ElBaradei voiced pleasure in the trend of progress made in resolving remaining questions over Iran’s nuclear programs, saying that he would finish the inquiry into Iran’s nuclear past ahead of his next report awaited by the IAEA Board of Governors as world powers.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s new Ambassador to Pyongyang Morteza Moradian called for further expansion of relations with North Korea in all fields.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran launched a domestically-built rocket as a test for sending the Islamic republic’s first homemade research satellite into orbit by March next year.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Trade between Iran and Japan rose up to USD14 billion in 2007, Japanese Finance Ministry reported.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian cinema is a very famous genre in the world and has a positive effect worldwide, a prominent Syrian film director said on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran has exported some 60,000 tons of red meat during the ten months as of March 21, 2007 (start of current Iranian year 1386), Majid Ansari director of the Public Relations Department of the Agricultural Jihad Ministry announced here on Sunday.