Tehran News

London - A blog on Tumblr takes us through the story step-by-step. A guy called Dom Deltorto was burgled, his laptop was stolen. Police basically did nothing. Then suddenly, his laptop woke up and told him where it was - 3,000 miles away in Iran. (Updated)

Tehran - According to reports, rats in the city of Tehran have grown to monstrous proportions with some weighing up to 11 pounds (five kilograms). The rats are now the focus of an extermination effort involving sniper teams hunting them in the streets at night.

The Middle East crisis continues as Ahmadinejad lands in Cairo a few months before Iran reaches nuclear weaponization. He declares that Iran is nuclear, but will not harm Israel. Analysts believe that Tehran has no nuclear weapons capability yet.

Ottawa - Canadian John Sheardown was the first secretary at the Canadian embassy in Tehran, during the Islamic Revolution. Sheltering six US diplomats in his Tehran home brought him into the media "spotlight".

Tehran - While the US still denies loss of a drone, Tehran has now threatened international legal action against Washington over the alleged interception of a US spy drone in Iran airspace. (Updated).

Tehran - A jury in Tehran has found the news agency Reuters "guilty of propagating against the Islamic Republic and disseminating false information to disturb public opinion" for running a story titled, "Thousands of female Ninjas train as Iran's assassins."

Protests and outrage are now spreading to Lebanon and Iran, and continue in Yemen and Egypt, Libya and now Sudan, over the film "Innocence of Muslims", released on YouTube, which insults the Prophet Mohammed.

Bushehr - Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is open and operating at full capacity. This is the first power plant of its type in the Islamic Republic.

Tehran - Iran is planning to move the country's key ministries away from the World Wide Web. Tehran states that the Internet is "untrustworthy" and the country is planning a domestic intranet.

Negotiations between world powers and Iran wrapped up in Moscow with no resolution, and a high-ranking Iranian general has sent a strong warning to Israel on possible attacks.