KNOXVILLE, Tennessee: An 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters were convicted Wednesday of interfering with national security when they broke into the primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium in the U.S.

WASHINGTON: In a suspected hate crime, an 82-year-old Sikh has been brutally assaulted with an iron rod outside a gurdwara in the US and was in a serious condition, as police arrested one person in connection with the incident.

DHAKA: The death toll from a collapsed building housing five garment factories rose to 761 on Wednesday as authorities started disbursing salary and other benefits to the survivors in the country's deadliest industrial disaster.

CLEVELAND: Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago were found on Monday in a home just south of downtown and likely had been tied up during years of captivity, said police, who arrested three brothers. One of the women said she had been abducted and told an emergency dispatcher in a frantic call, "I'm free now."

KARACHI: Bindiya Rana looks stressed. She's been campaigning for the last several weeks hoping to win from Karachi's Mehmoodabad area, a Muttahida Qaumi Movement stronghold. The competition is stiff, and Rana knows she is unlikely to win, given that she represents the transgender community, a small and marginalized community across Pakistan.

LONDON: The world's most famous piece of furniture, Sigmund Freud's couch, that is witness to more than a century of insight into the human brain, is screaming for help. Freud's couch, upon which his patients comfortably reclined during psychoanalytic sessions, is in dire need of restoration.

WASHINGTON: Asserting that China has signed agreements for arms exports worth USD 11 billion from 2007 to 2011, the Pentagon has said that Pakistan remains Beijing's primary customer for conventional weapons.

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has lost a golf match while playing with two Republican senators Saxby Chambliss and Bob Corker, a White House official said.

MANILA, Philippines: One of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed huge rocks and ash early on Tuesday after a 3-year calm, killing four climbers and trapping others near the crater, officials said.

ANKARA: Japan and Turkey on Friday signed a long-awaited deal to build a sprawling nuclear power plant on Turkey's Black Sea coast, a milestone for the Japanese nuclear industry as it recovers from the 2011 Fukushima disaster.