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Scientists worked on Saturday to try to determine why hundreds of dolphins became stranded in shallow waters and later washed up dead along the shore of a popular tourist destination on Zanzibar's northern coast. Iran promised Sunday it would show "maximum cooperation" with a probe into its nuclear program on condition the case was dealt with by the International Atomic Energy Agency and not the UN Security Council. The news of Indian telecom engineer K Suryanarayan's killing by his Taliban abductors in Afghanistan shattered his family in Hyderabad. A foreign young woman was hit by a car in Regional Road while she was crossing the street in the early hours of this morning, the Maltese police said. In a week when Charles Clarke mislaid 1,000 foreign convicts and nurses booed Patricia Hewitt off stage, it was the deputy PM Prescott being caught with his trousers down that proved most likely to capsize Blair's dinghy. Reciprocity and win-win result are the cornerstone of China's cooperation with Africa on energy. The bilateral exchanges go further than energy. The militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said Sunday that it detonated a car bomb amidst petroleum tankers close to the Warri refinery, in the oil producing area of Nigeria. The vice-president of Malawi, Cassim Chilumpha, has been arrested on charges of treason, reports say. He is accused of holding meetings in which members of his United Democratic Front party conspired to topple the country's president, his lawyer said. After Nintendon announced the official name of its next generation console, known as Wii, fan reaction was less "whee" and more "why"?