Friday News Round Up: Obama Accuses Iran of Concealed Nuclear Facility

Leaders Warn Iran Over Nuclear Site

President Obama and leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying the country has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years.

“The level of deception by the Iranian government, and the scale of what we believe is the breach of international commitments, will shock and anger the entire international community,” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, standing on the other side of Mr. Obama. “The international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand.”

G20 leaders debate economic future

Leaders at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh have been debating the safest way to steer the world’s economies.

With many major economies beginning to climb out of recession, attention at the G20 will turn to when and how to withdraw government stimulus packages.

AIDS vaccine promising; experts urge caution

As Bay Area scientists celebrated the first promising results from the largest-ever AIDS vaccine trial, they cautioned that much more research is needed before a vaccine could be available to the public.

The news that an experimental AIDS vaccine tested on 16,000 heterosexual volunteers in Thailand had been shown to be safe and modestly effective surprised researchers, who had become used to failure in the decades-long effort to find a vaccine to protect against HIV infection.