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Iran on Friday handed world powers its "constructive and creative" response to their letter outlining proposals to end the five-year standoff over its contested nuclear programme.

World stocks slipped back towards this week's five-month low on Friday as steadying oil prices failed to erase concerns about slowing economic growth and rising inflation, and as banking stocks came under renewed pressure.

Strife-torn Zimbabwe will remain a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), officials said on Friday, after the deeply-divided world body worked out a last-minute compromise.

Roger Federer's Wimbledon waltz collides with the wild world of Marat Safin on Friday as the volatile Russian looks to complete his All England Club fairytale and stop the Swiss superstar in his elegant tracks.

Iran will deliver its response on Friday to proposals offered by world powers to end the standoff over its nuclear programme, top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was quoted as saying.

Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75 percent, according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report published in The Guardian newspaper on Friday.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged his fellow South Koreans Friday to do more for the world, saying they have a responsibility to help others.

U.N. officials decided Thursday to retain the eastern German city of Dresden as a World Heritage Site for now despite earlier warnings that the construction of a bridge endangered its status.

Zimbabwe has agreed to skip next year's Twenty20 World Cup in England to end a deadlock over demands that the African nation be suspended because of Robert Mugabe's government.

Chris Moneymaker, 2003 winner of the main event at the World Series of Poker, visited a Kentucky hospital last year to meet a fan with major injuries sustained in a car accident. After they played poker for straws, Moneymaker invited him to this year's World Series. Donald Hobbs, 24, of Pineville, Ky., is not only in Las Vegas. He plans to play in the main event.