The week at a glance .. Europe

Geneva

Deadlock with Iran: The first nuclear talks in more than a year between Iran and world powers this week yielded little but an agreement to meet again next month in Istanbul. The “only outcome,” Iranian envoy Saeed Jalili said of his meeting with negotiators from the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany, was agreement on the wording of the framework for the next meeting: “Talks based on cooperation to find common ground.” The two sides gave widely differing accounts of what those talks would consist of. Jalili said that Iran’s uranium-enrichment program would “absolutely not” be up for discussion, while EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the host of this week’s talks, said January’s topic would be “our full concerns about the nuclear issue.”

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Game-show tragedy: A contestant on Germany’s most popular game show, Wetten, Dass? (Wanna Bet?), was hit by a car and broke his back last week, as 10 million viewers watched live. The show, hosted by Thomas Gottschalk for most of its 29 years on the air, features celebrities betting on whether a contestant can perform difficult stunts. In recent years, the stunts have grown ever more dangerous. Phil Collins, Cameron Diaz, Justin Bieber, and Cher were among the guests who saw contestant Samuel Koch bounce on spring-loaded stilts and somersault over moving cars. Koch, 23, cleared three cars but slammed into the fourth and smashed to the ground. Doctors said they were unsure if he would ever walk again. Several German politicians called for the show to be canceled.