Scientists at a Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONE) in Hyderabad are continuing their efforts to clone a rabbit and hope to get assistance from Iran to fulfill their ambitious goal – to clone a cheetah.

The Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Iran Friday discussed a gas pipeline involving the two countries and India and hoped that the project would be completed soon.

Debate is raging in Italy and Germany, and to a lesser extent the Netherlands and Denmark, on whether they should remain in the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF), already grappling with a shortage of troops in the face of one of the most intense military engagements in decades. “There …