Vikas Krishnan (60kg) and Naveen Kumar (81kg) fetched gold medals, while three others settled for silver as the Indian boxing team finished runners-up at the Asian Youth Boxing Championships in Tehran, Iran.

Iranian authorities have freed five men, including reformist journalists and aides of opposition leaders, on bail after some of them paid hefty sureties, an opposition website reported late on Monday.

The official version of the September 11 attacks on the United States is a "big lie" that was used by Washington as an excuse to launch the war on terror, state media quoted Iran President, Mr Mohammad Ahmadinejad, as saying.

Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi on Tuesday accused the new head of the UN atomic watchdog of bias and said he hoped the Japanese official would change his approach towards Tehran's atomic programme.