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Jacobs' Pharmacy in Atlanta, where Coca-Cola was first sold in 1886
1886: Dr John Pemberton produced the syrup for for Coca-Cola and carried a jug down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy, where it was sold for 5 cents a glass
1906: Countries outside the US - Cuba, Canada ana Panama - began bottling the drink
1916: The iconic contour bottle - so distinctive it could be recognised in the dark - was introduced to distinguish Coca-Cola from competitors
1931: Artist Haddon Sundblom's Santa Claus first appeared in ads for Coca-Cola. This image of Santa - shown as a plump, jolly, friendly man - helped shape the modern-day image of St. Nick
1969: The Beatles name-checked Coca-Cola in their song Come Together
1982: Soft-drink history was made with the introduction of Diet Coke, the most successful new soft drink since Coca-Cola itself. Within two years, Diet Coke had become the top low-calorie soft drink in the world
1985: The drink became the first soft drink to be consumed in space when astronauts tested the Coca-Cola Space Can aboard Space Shuttle Challenger
2006: Cheryl Cole signed up to promote Coca-Cola's sugar free drink Coke Zero
Present: The world's top soft drinks maker reported a net income of £3.58bn for the fourth quarter of 2010
SO IS THIS HOW TO MAKE THE FAMOUS DRINK?
Fluid extract of Coca 3 drams USP Citric acid 3 oz Caffeine 1oz Sugar 30 (it is unclear from the markings what quantity is required) Water 2.5 gal Lime juice 2 pints 1 qrt Vanilla 1oz Caramel 1.5oz or more to colour
t's one of the most closely guarded trade secrets, supposedly only known by a handful of executives.
But a website claims to have uncovered the precise formula to make Coca-Cola.
The exact ingredients of the popular soft drink, invented by a medicinal chemist called John Pemberton in 1886, have always been shrouded in mystery.
The details of the recipe are said to be kept under 24-hour guard in a vault in Atlanta, Georgia
But now Thisamericanlife.org claims to have uncovered a list, in a 1979 newspaper article, showing the ingredients and quantities used to make the drink.
The February 8 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a photo of someone holding open a book showing a recipe which is purported to be an exact replica of Pemberton's.
The U.S. website has also published a similar list by Joe Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy where Coca-Cola was first served.
Teenagers sharing a bottle of Coke. Coca-Cola contains a number of essential oils and it is the precise way that these are blended together that is responsible for the drink's unique flavour
The exact ingredients of the popular soft drink, invented by a medicinal chemist called John Pemberton in 1886, have always been shrouded in mystery
Thisamericanlife.org claims to have uncovered a list, in a 1979 newspaper article, showing the ingredients and quantities used to make the drink
SO IS THIS HOW TO MAKE THE FAMOUS DRINK?
Fluid extract of Coca 3 drams USP Citric acid 3 oz Caffeine 1oz Sugar 30 (it is unclear from the markings what quantity is required) Water 2.5 gal Lime juice 2 pints 1 qrt Vanilla 1oz Caramel 1.5oz or more to colour
However, Jacobs's list has extra ingredients such as prune juice and clover.
Coca-Cola contains a number of essential oils and it is the precise way that these are blended together that is responsible for the drink's unique flavour.
This blend makes up the secret ingredient, known as Merchandise 7X, which comprises less than one per cent of the formula.
The ingredients and quantities on this list are very similar to those seen in the photo, although the company has always said that Pendergrast's recipe is not the same as the one it uses.
The soft drink, which was first sold in Atlanta in a single pharmacy in 1886, can now be bought in more than 200 countries around the world.
In 2010 Coca-Cola had become the first brand to top £1 billion in annual UK grocery sales.
The founder of WikiLeaks, accused of molestation in Sweden, said Australian intelligence had warned him of plans to discredit the whistle-blower website as it prepares to release more secret US files on the war in Afghanistan. Swedish authorities issued an arrest warrant for Australian Julian Assange on suspicion of rape but dropped the charge abruptly on Saturday. Police are still investigating an accusation of molestation in a separate case. “We were warned on the 11th by Australian intelligence that we would expect this sort of thing. They had some concerns that we would have something like that,” Assange told Al Jazeera television in an interview. “Now, we have no direct evidence at this stage that this is an intelligence operation, or has been influenced by an intelligence operation, but certainly the surrounding context is disturbing.”
Assange was warned to expect a smear campaign to derail WikiLeaks’ plan to release more Afghan war material.
WikiLeaks last month published more than 70,000 secret military files on Afghanistan in what US officials have called one of the biggest security breaches in US military history.
The Pentagon was not immediately available for comment.
Assange told Al Jazeera the accusations against him were not credible and he expected all charges in Sweden to be dropped today. His lawyers were trying to arrange a meeting with the Swedish prosecutor’s office, he said.
“They found the other claim not to be credible, and they are investigating this one. I assume they will also find it to not be credible,” he said.
Assange has been spending an increasing amount of time in Sweden, which has some of the world’s toughest laws protecting journalists’ sources. WikiLeaks keeps many of its web servers there.
He was in Sweden last weekend to defend his intent to publish more files, including some 15,000 detailing the war in Afghanistan. Local media say he is still in the country, staying with a friend.
Assange said the allegations would not stop WikiLeaks’ work.
“Within the next two to four weeks,” he said, when asked about the release of other Pentagon files held back last month. “There’s very significant material in there.”
Assange recently signed a contract with the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, which could help give him protection as a journalist under Swedish law.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority said on its website yesterday that the investigation into the allegation of molestation would continue this week but provided no further details.
It said Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne dropped the rape charge because “the basis for the decision which Eva Finne took on Saturday was more comprehensive than what the duty prosecutor had access to on Friday night.”
WikiLeaks promotes the leaking of information to fight government and corporate corruption. Earlier this year, it leaked a classified video showing a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists
'Irresponsible': Julian Assange, whose WikiLeaks website is preparing to release a further 15,000 sensitive files on the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan
The next leak of secret Afghan war documents being planned by the WikiLeaks website will be even more damaging than thousands already published, the Pentagon has warned.
The U.S. military believes it has identified the additional 15,000 classified files that WikiLeaks has vowed to release, said Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell.
He would not identify the documents but stressed their exposure would be even more damaging to U.S. security and the war effort than the initial release of 76,000 war files.
Danger: Military chiefs warn Coalition troops, such as these British soldiers patrol in Kabul, could be at risk because of the leaks
Last month, WikiLeaks was accused of endangering the lives of soldiers and informants in the field after it published online the majority of an archive of 90,000 classified US military reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
The extraordinary disclosure, which prompted a witch-hunt to find the insider who leaked the files, was claimed by some to expose human rights abuses across the Nato-led campaign.
The Pentagon demanded that WikiLeaks refrain from publishing any more secret data.
But WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking via videolink to London's Frontline Club, said he had no intention of withholding the sensitive documents in his possession.
He gave no specific time frame for their release, but said his organisation was about halfway through those 15,000 or so secret files previously held back from publication.
'We're about 7,000 reports in,' he said, adding that he would definitely publish them.
There was no indication as to whether he would give the documents to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel - as he did before - or simply publish them on his website.
Assange is under pressure from U.S. authorities who have thrown the resources of the military and the FBI into investigating the source of his scoop. The Pentagon has a task force of about 100 people reading the leaked documents to assess the damage done and working, for instance, to alert Afghans who might be identified by name and now could be in danger.
Other governments have also reportedly been urged to look into Assange and his international network of activists, but it is not clear how aggressive the U.S. has been in pursuing Assange.
Reporters Without Borders tonight criticised the planned leak of more documents, saying WikiLeaks was showing 'incredible irresponsibility'.
The international media watchdog said that while the whistleblower group had often played a useful role, revealing the identity of Afghan informants 'is highly dangerous'.
Assange acknowledged that some of the criticisms levelled at his group were legitimate.
But he also said many were parroting the Pentagon's attacks instead of focusing on the content of the reports themselves.
On Christmas Day, the president and first lady Michelle greeted diners at the base's Anderson Hall, as they did last year. Obama also has used the base for his press statements during this vacation.
First daughters Malia and Sasha are huge fans of Island Snow
President Obama helps eldest daughter Malia choose which flavour of shaved ice to go for
President 'Snowbama' tentatively licks his ice cone before going in for a huge bite
Barack Obama seems sure to maintain his status as the coolest President in US history - after enjoying a traditional ‘shave ice’ while on holiday in his native Hawaii.
As the temperature reached 25C (77F) on the main island of Oahu, Mr Obama popped into the Island Snow shop with daughters Malia and Sasha.
They and about a dozen friends and bodyguards enjoyed the local delicacy, a mixture of ice shavings and flavoured syrup served in a paper cone.
Mr Obama ordered a combination of lemon and lime, cherry and passion guava – dubbed the Snowbama by store staff.
But he chose not to add sweet azuki red beans or ice cream, as is the custom.
Wearing sunglasses and dressed casually in a white T-shirt, khaki shorts and sandals, he told onlookers: ‘I like my shave ice straight, no frills.’
About 100 people flocked to the shopping centre car park to catch a glimpse of the President and his family – minus First Lady Michelle – on their New Year’s Day visit.
The store also announced on the website Facebook that Mr Obama’s daughters had paid a visit earlier in their holiday.
The Obamas have stayed largely out of public view during their break.
However, last week 11-year-old Malia was pictured learning to surf as proud Michelle looked on.
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President Obama has stayed even closer than usual to Marine Corps Base Hawaii on his latest O'ahu vacation.
And the reasons are probably as much security-conscious as symbolic for a wartime commander in chief from the Democratic Party.
"The military tends to be more right wing, conservative leaning, and there's a bias when you have a Democratic, liberal president," said Michael Naho'opi'i, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1986, retired as a lieutenant commander and is now executive director of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission. "A lot of it has to do with security. But it does show that he supports the troops."
As on last year's Hawai'i Christmas vacation as president-elect, Obama has begun his days with early-morning workouts at Marine Corps Base Hawaii's Semper Fit gym, which sits next to his beachfront rental home in Kailua.
But on this trip, Obama has returned to the nearly 1,000-acre base several times after working out: to take family and friends for private beach time Dec. 27 at Pyramid Rock out of the eye of reporters and photographers; to play a private basketball game in the gym, also on Dec. 27; to make two widely publicized statements about the Christmas Day attempted terrorist attack on a commercial airliner; and, joined by the first lady, to shake hands with Marines, soldiers and sailors on Christmas Day, for the second year in a row.
As the president's Hawai'i vacation neared its conclusion, he returned to the base again yesterday, with family and friends, to enjoy the beach after a morning visit to Sea Life Park in Waimanalo.
Last year, during an August vacation break from the presidential campaign trail, Obama stepped out from the same rental home he's staying in now to deliver a sidewalk statement on Russia's incursion into neighboring Georgia.
Various media reports at the time referred to the "palm tree-lined driveway" that served as a backdrop for Obama's statement.
This time, Obama's entourage erected an ad hoc briefing room, along with a decidedly more presidential-looking podium, inside the Mauka Ballroom of the Marines' Klipper Golf Course.
"He is the commander in chief and he takes that seriously," said Dan Boylan, a Hawai'i political commentator and University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu professor. "But the security guys clearly want to keep him close to base." Commander in chief
Even for military members who preferred Republican Sen. John McCain for president, Obama is still their commander in chief, said Jim Hickerson, 75, a Vietnam POW and retired Navy captain who lives near the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.
During his Navy career, Hickerson met and admired President Reagan in California and said, "I am not a very big Obama fan."
"But it's great to have a president here, there's no doubt about it," Hickerson said. "The president's the president. I have the utmost respect for the office. He's our commander in chief. Having him come by (Marine Corps Base Hawaii) is an honor, whether you respect him or not."
The base is well suited to accommodate the president and his family.
Anderson Hall — where Obama and the first lady thanked military members for their service and wished them Merry Christmas — is outfitted with new 52-inch and 42-inch flat-screen televisions and has been named the best chow hall in the entire Marine Corps three years running.
"We feel our amenities exceed what you would typically find at other bases, without calling them extravagant," said Col. Robert D. Rice, commanding officer of Marine Corps Base Hawaii. "We're particularly proud of our Klipper Golf Course and its newly refurbished club. Our Semper Fit gym, where the commander in chief has worked out each morning of his stay thus far, has approximately 20 percent of its strength-training equipment replaced or upgraded each year. Our basketball court in the gym just had its floor resurfaced in September, as it has almost every year in the last several years. Our cardio training equipment is as modern as you'd find in most gyms out in town." 'superb relationship'
Marines have been assigned to the Windward side's Mokapu Peninsula since Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese fighters strafed Naval Air Station Kane'ohe Bay eight minutes before the main attack on Pearl Harbor.
On Jan. 15, 1952, Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay was officially commissioned. Today, Marine Corps Base Hawaii is home to more than 7,500 Marines and more than 7,000 family members, with hundreds more sailors, Marines and civilians pouring in each day.
Rice, the base's commanding officer, said the Marines "enjoy a superb relationship with the White House staff and Secret Service, and eagerly look forward to supporting future presidential visits to Hawai'i."
The Marines' accommodations are good to go for the leader of the free world, said base spokesman Maj. Alan Crouch. But there is one spot on base that even the Marines can't improve on, Crouch said.
Where the first family enjoyed a beach picnic at Pyramid Rock, Crouch said, "there's no improving on perfection."
Anything my big sister can do: Malia's younger sister Sasha also manages to stand up on her board - although it looks as though she may have gotten a bit of sneaky help
Look at me, Mom! Michelle Obama, left, applauds her daughter Malia at the family's rented holiday home
Yes I can! Malia Obama manages to get to her feet as she holidays with her family in Hawaii
Fore! Barack Obama gets into the swing of it while playing golf yesterday
Down time: Mr Obama (right) and his daughters Malia (light) and Sasha (centre) leave a shopping mall after watching the film Avatar yesterday
His troubles may have been mounting as he enters a new year in the White House, but President Obama had rather more down-to-earth concerns as he enjoyed a family holiday in Hawaii.
While his domestic and foreign policies have come under fire over the festive period, the President focused his attention on getting to grips with a more mundane issue - his golf swing.
The president hit the links at Mid-Pacific Country Club - just hours after starting his day with a workout at the gym on the Marine Corps base in Kaneohe Bay. With their dad relaxing on the golf course, the rest of the Obamas took to the waves as his daughter Malia learned to surf.
After a few wobbly attempts, the 11-year-old managed to stand upright on her board to the delight of her mother Michelle, who was watching with a group of young friends. The family were pictured on the beach in front of the house they are renting in a suburb of Honolulu.
But it wasn't all sports for the Obamas - the family did find time to relax at the cinema also, with a private showing of James Cameron's Avatar. The Obamas visited a cinema near their rented house yesterday morning for a screening of the 3-D hit, before the day's regular screenings began.
Mr Obama, a self-described film buff, left his compound with Sasha, Malia and wife Michelle before noon on New Year's Eve.
The family have been in Hawaii since Christmas. They are set to return to Washington in the new year.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei awaits the start of a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran will farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country.
Deputy Secretary of Energy from the U.S. Daniel B. Poneman waits for the start of a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran is ready to farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, front, arrives for a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran is ready to farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country. Others are not identified.
Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, front arrives for a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran will farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country. Others are not identified.
Overview of a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran will farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country.
Deputy Secretary of Energy from the U.S. Daniel B. Poneman, left, and Glyn Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, wait for the start of a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran is ready to farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country. Others are not identified.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has agreed to a draft deal on its nuclear program.
In addition, diplomats say the deal would see the country ship out most of its enriched uranium to Russia, stripping Tehran of most of the material it would need to make a nuclear weapon.
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Wednesday that Iran and the U.S., Russia and France have signed off on a draft deal that he hoped would be approved by the nations' capitals by Friday.
He gave no details. But a diplomat inside the closed meeting told The Associated Press that the draft foresees the export most of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium.
Iran says it is enriching to provide fuel for a future network of nuclear reactors. But enriched uranium can also be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
Negotiators from three powers and Iran are meeting for a third day in an attempt to persuade Tehran to ship most of its enriched uranium abroad.
An agreement would delay Tehran's potential ability to make a nuclear weapon because enriched uranium can be used for the fissile core of nuclear weapons. Tehran says it is enriching only to make fuel for a planned network of reactors.
The tentative plan envisions Russia enriching the material to a higher grade and then another country turning the uranium into metal fuel rods for Tehran's research reactor.
Iran's interlocutors are the U.S., Russia and France. The talks, which resumed Wednesday, opened Monday and have been repeatedly delayed as the two sides search for agreement.
"We have had very constructive discussions, intensive discussions," Iran's envoy to the atomic energy agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said after the meeting, according to news agencies. "There have been proposals. We had thorough discussions on these issues. We have to thoroughly study this text and have further elaboration in capitals and will come back and reflect."
Iran's drive to master nuclear technology has worried the West and Israel, the Middle East's sole atomic power. Physicists say Iran has produced more than enough reactor-grade nuclear material to convert into a single bomb if it were to withdraw from the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, expel inspectors and begin further refining its supply.
The revelation of a secret uranium enrichment facility in Qum last month added to suspicions that Iran has created an undeclared parallel nuclear program beyond the eyes of international inspectors.
Under the terms of the deal sketched out before this week's meeting, Iran would send up to 80% of its supply of low-enriched uranium to Russia, where it would be further refined, and France, where it would be turned into plates for use in a medical research reactor.
Soltanieh said the U.S. played a key role in this week's talks, which officials said focused on hammering out details of the proposal.
"Iran and the United States discussed technical cooperation about procurement of equipment for the Tehran [research] reactor under the aegis of IAEA," he told Iran's Fars news agency. "The U.S. agreed in principle to cooperate" with Iran.
Anonymous officials quoted by Western news agencies said the deal has been hampered by tensions between Iran and France, which has taken an increasingly hard line on the Iranian nuclear issue under conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's administration.
Soltanieh alluded to such complications, telling Fars that Russia "is the main partner in the deal for fuel supply, and France can cooperate with Russia if it is willing to do so."
By reducing Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium below the threshold for building a bomb, such a deal might temporarily ease pressure on the Obama administration, which has vowed to attempt diplomatic outreach to overcome 30 years of hostility with Iran and forge a deal over the nuclear program.
But if approved, the deal could also buy time for Iran to continue expanding its ability to produce nuclear fuel at its facility in Natanz.
"It's a big risk for Obama because the deal implicitly accepts Iran's right to enrichment," said Mark Fitzpatrick, a nonproliferation specialist and former U.S. diplomat at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "And it delays the sanctions that are seen as part of the key to an ultimate solution."
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Iran's first nuclear plant last year
Satellite photo of what is believed to be a uranium-enrichment facility near Qom
President Barack Obama, accompanied by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, makes a statement on Iran's nuclear facility, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, during the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. The UK foreign Secretary, David Miliband, says diplomacy is way forward but refused to rule out military action
Israel Respond.
Israel's foreign minister said on Saturday the newly disclosed nuclear facility in Iran was proof the Islamic Republic was seeking nuclear weapons, and called on the world for an "unequivocal" response.
"I spoke this weekend with experts from the East and West. No one has any doubt, according to the technical data that was published, it's a military core," right-winger Avigdor Lieberman told Israel Radio.
"The disagreement (on whether Iran is developing military nuclear capability) has been done away with," he said.
Israeli leaders have repeatedly expressed alarm over Iran's nuclear ambitions and refused to rule out pre-emptive military action to stop Iran developing an atomic weapon.
Tehran says its nuclear plans are peaceful and has resisted U.S.-led diplomatic pressure to curb its uranium enrichment, which can be used to generate electricity or make bombs.
USA responds.
President Barack Obama said on Saturday the discovery of a secret nuclear plant in Iran showed a "disturbing pattern" of evasion by Tehran which added urgency to its October 1 talks with world powers.President Obama said the international community has put Iran on notice with its response to the revelation that the Islamic regime has been secretly building a nuclear facility.
"You had an unprecedented show of unity on the part of the world community saying that Iran's actions raised grave doubts in terms of their presentation that their nuclear program was for peaceful purposes," Obama told reporters in Pittsburgh at a G-20 summit.
"So I think that Iran is on notice that when we meet with them on Oct. 1, they're going to have to come clean," Obama said, adding that Iran can choose to give up what the U.S. says is the desire for nuclear weapons and abide by international standards, or it can continue down a path toward confrontation.
The president would not rule out military options. But he added his preferred course of action is to resolve the standoff diplomatically.
"Iran has the right for peaceful power, but the size of the facility is inconsistent with a peaceful program," Obama said. "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow, endangering the world non-nuclear proliferation regime ... and the security of the world."
Iran acknowledged the existence of the uranium enrichment facility near Qom for the first time on Monday in a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency. U.S. officials said the disclosure was aimed at pre-empting an announcement by Western governments, which were aware of the site.
"This is a serious challenge to the global nonproliferation regime and continues a disturbing pattern of Iranian evasion," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
"That is why international negotiations with Iran scheduled for October 1 now take on added urgency," Obama said of the talks between Iran, the United States and five other powers due to occur next week in Geneva.
In meetings this week on the sidelines of the United Nations and the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh, Britain, France and Germany have joined the United States in raising the specter of new sanctions against Iran if it does not take steps to address concerns about its nuclear program. Russia also signaled a greater willingness to go along with sanctions.
The West accuses Iran of seeking to acquire a nuclear weapon, but Tehran insists its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity.
Obama, who sought to engage Iran after taking office in January, said he remains committed to dialogue but has said if Iran does not respond, sanctions must be considered.
"My offer of a serious, meaningful dialogue to resolve this issue remains open," Obama said. "But Iran must now cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency and take action to demonstrate its peaceful intentions."
Iran Respond.
Before the public condemnation, Ahmadinejad warned Obama to back off.
"If I were Obama's adviser, I would definitely advise him to refrain making this statement because it is definitely a mistake," Ahmadinejad told TIME magazine in an interview about an hour before Obama spoke.
Ahmadinejad told the magazine that Iran was not keeping anything from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"We have no secrecy, we work within the framework of the IAEA," he said.
Iran said the plant is not operational , but soon will be operational and will allow IAEA inspects to visit the site. Nothing is new , the nuclear plant is to generate electricity.
"This new plant, God willing, will soon become operational," said Mohammad Mohammadi-Golpayegani, who heads the office of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.
The facility, buried in a mountain outside the city of Qom, is still under construction. It is designed to enrich uranium and could be used to produce the essential material for a nuclear weapon.
On Friday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that Tehran wrote to the agency on September 21, disclosing that it is building a new uranium enrichment facility.
Ahmadinejad said the new facility won't be operational for 18 months, so Iran did not violate any requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency by not revealing its construction before this week.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, however, has rejected Iran's contention it must notify the agency of new facilities only six months before operations. The agency says Iran is obliged to make such a notification when it begins design of such facilities.
The Iranians said in March 2007 they were "suspending" the modification to their IAEA safeguards agreement requiring that early notification. But the IAEA countered that a government cannot unilaterally abandon such an agreement.
The revelation has heightened fears that Iran is determined to develop the capacity to build an atomic weapon, although Tehran insists that it wants a nuclear programme to generate energy for a rapidly growing population.
International Responds.
Obama, joined by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the opening of the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh, warned Iran that it will be "held accountable" to an impatient world community if it does not fully disclose its nuclear ambitions.
"Iran has the right for peaceful power, but the size of the facility is inconsistent with a peaceful program," Obama said. "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow, endangering the world non-nuclear proliferation regime ... and the security of the world."
Obama's demand was echoed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who called on Iran to "demonstrate readiness for full-scale cooperation" with inspectors.
Sarkozy said Iran has until December to comply or face sanctions. "This is for peace and stability," the French leader said. Brown accused Iran of "serial deception."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also called for an immediate probe of the site by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The secret facility.
Iran revealed the existence of its covert uranium enrichment facility to the IAEA this week after it discovered the project's secrecy had been breached by Western intelligence agencies.
An official told FOX News that Iran revealed the existence of the second plant in a letter sent Monday to IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
Iran is under three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment at what had been its single known enrichment plant, which is being monitored by the IAEA.
A senior administration official told FOX News that the U.S. has been tracking the secret project for years.
U.S. intelligence believes that the secret Iranian nuclear facility is in an underground tunnel complex on a military base controlled by the elite Revolutionary Guards.
The document says the facility is "too small to be viable for the production of fuel for a nuclear power reactor, but may be well suited for a military purpose."
The location at the military base would also undermine Iran's claim that the program is for civilian purposes.
Iran's letter to the IAEA contained no details about the location of the second facility, when -- or if -- it had started operations, or the type and number of centrifuges it was running.
"They [Iran] have cheated three times, and they have now been caught three times," an unnamed official with access to the intelligence told The New York Times.
But one of the officials, who had access to a review of Western intelligence on the issue, said it was about 100 miles southwest of Tehran and was the site of 3,000 centrifuges that could be operational by next year.
The last IAEA report on Iran in August said Iran had set up more than 8,000 centrifuges to churn out enriched uranium at the cavernous underground Natanz facility, although the report said that only about 4,600 of those were fully active.
The Islamic Republic insists that it has the right to generate fuel for what it says will be a nationwide chain of nuclear reactors. But because uranium enrichment can make both fuel and weapons-grade uranium, the international community fears Tehran will use the technology to generate the fissile material used on the tip of nuclear warheads.
The revelation of a secret plant further hinders the chances of progress in scheduled Oct. 1 talks between Iran and six world powers.
At that meeting -- the first in more than a year -- the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany plan to press Iran to scale back on its enrichment activities. Tehran has declared that it will not bargain on enrichment.
While Iran's mainstay P-1 centrifuge is a decades-old model based on Chinese technology, it has begun experimenting with state-of-the art prototypes that enrich uranium more quickly and efficiently.
The existence of a secret Iranian enrichment program built on black-market technology was revealed seven years ago. Since then, the country has continued to expand the program with only a few interruptions as it works toward its aspirations of a 50,000-centrifuge enrichment facility at the southern city of Natanz.
Sony Music boss Tommy Mottola says that there are unreleased Michael Jackson songs that go back decades, and the first of them managed to sneak out onto the Internet. found and posted a snippet of a song called "A Place With No Name," which borrows heavily from America's 1971 hit "A Horse With No Name." shared a manger with the band in the late '80s and early '90s, though it's unclear when the song (which sounds like a fairly rough demo) was actually recorded.
In the weeks after Michael Jackson's death, his No. 1 hits have been blasted in car stereos, retail stores and public memorials. And industry experts say Jackson may continue to burn up the charts with a reported a stash of unreleased music that could earn his estate millions.
"What we have seen happen in the last three weeks is that the albums that are out here right now are selling in amazing numbers," Jim Henke, curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, told "Good Morning America." "I think we are going to see amazing interest in any released Michael Jackson material that will come out in the future or a year from now on."
Jackson died June 25 of apparent cardiac arrest at his rented Los Angeles home. Since his death, his albums and singles have rocketed to the top of the charts once again.
He wouldn't be the first chart-topping entertainer to release . John Lennon did it with "Woman," released a month after he was murdered in 1980. Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay" became a hit just weeks after his death in 1967.
And a string of Tupac albums have been released since the rapper was gunned down more than a decade ago.
unearthed a portion of a unreleased Jackson track called "A Place With No Name," possibly his take on the song "A Horse with No Name" by America.
There are reportedly many more songs Jackson recorded, now sitting in a vault, that could eventually be release .
The songis remarkably similar to the 1972 America hit "A Horse With No Name." According to TMZ, the band gave their blessing to Jackson's revamp. There is no information at present about when the song was recorded. America's manager, Jim Morey, managed Jackson in the late '80s and early '90s, and said that Jackson was granted permission to record the song.
"The band was honored that Michael chose to do their song and they hope it becomes available for all Michael's fans to hear," Morey told TMZ.
TMZ has posted a previously unreleased Michael Jackson track called "A Place With No Name." The song is remarkably similar to the 1972 America hit "A Horse With No Name." According to TMZ, the band gave their blessing to Jackson's revamp. There is no information at present about when the song was recorded.
