101.  The Taliban Islamic militia Saturday refused to join peace talks with rival Afghan leaders in the Iranian capital, dubbing Tehran as partisan, Taliban officials said.

102.  Twenty public employees in a poor suburb of the Iranian capital have been arrested and remanded in custody for taking bribes, the Iranian press reported Sunday.

103.  Two gunmen attacked a bank in the Iranian capital, fatally wounding the security guard and injuring a female employee, official sources said Tuesday.

104.  Two warplanes collided in mid-air over the Iranian capital on Tuesday and at least one crashed into the district of a railway station, witnesses said.

105.  Young Islamic activists have stepped up a campaign to eradicate Western trends in the Iranian capital but face stiff resistance in a city divided along cultural lines.

106.  Iraqi opposition leaders Jalal Talabani and Ayatollah Mohammad Bakir Hakim have held talks in the Iranian capital on the situation in their country and efforts to unite the opposition.

107.  Italian ambassador Ludovico Ortona returned to Tehran Wednesday, a day after the European Union decided that EU ambassadors would shortly return to the Iranian capital.

108.  Khan arrived in the Iranian capital on Wednesday for talks on the conflict in Afghanistan.

109.  Kim arrived in the Iranian capital earlier the same day and was greeted by his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Velayati.

110.  Large crowds have been gathering in front of a house in the Iranian capital in the past few days after rumors spread about the apparition of Jesus Christ there.