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India must cut back its imports on Iranian oil by June 28 or face U.S sanctions. A new law targets Iran's central bank, which is used for oil transactions, and it penalizes foreign countries that ignore the sanctions.

The British music press is hailing a new band, the Arctic Monkeys, as being as big as the Beatles — or at least as big as Oasis. The first-week release of the band's debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, sold over 118,000 copies.

A "super-max" is the highest security prison in the penitentiary system. It's here the worst offenders -- or the most endangered ones -- serve their time in near isolation. There is only one federal super-max in the United States, located in Florence, Colo.

The National Security Archive is a repository for intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Its contents include papers related to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran-Contra affair --and, more recently, to pre-9/11 warnings about Osama bin Laden. It is led by Tom Blanton.

The crew of a U.S. Navy submarine that crashed into an undersea mountain in the Pacific was relying on a chart that did not indicate the mountain was there, according to an investigative report.

Philosopher-chef Jose Andres has been on a mission to ignite America's passion for the flavors of his native Spain. To help that process along, Andres has written a cookbook, Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America.

President Bush accepts his party's re-election nomination Thursday, the last night of the Republican Convention. In his acceptance speech, the president underscored his efforts to make the country secure in the years following the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Liliya Karimova is a young Tatar woman from Kazan, Russia, currently living in the United States. A graduate student in Kansas, she has been struggling to understand her ethnic and religious background.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is hosting the first-ever major exhibition of paintings that reflect what many upper-class Spaniards thought about race, class and skin color during the time of the Spanish colonization of Mexico in the 1700s.

The Disco Biscuits' members call their sound "trance-fusion" — a mixture of jam-band and electronic music with bits of Frank Zappa, rock, techno, jazz, soul, blues and classical. It's no surprise that the band writes its music for live shows and then records it, instead of the other way around.