Forget the Maldives, the Seychelles or anywhere else - if you are looking for a really exclusive holiday, you should be looking beyond our planet. A Russian company is building a new hotel in space which is scheduled to open in five years` time.
Moscow police have become targets for attacks lately, as signs of co-ordination appear in the chain of recent bombings and arson actions against police departments and officers.
The National Hurricane Center has downgraded Irene to the status of a tropical storm as it headed for New York. After battering the US mid-Atlantic coast with hurricane power, Irene`s winds dropped to100 km per hour, says the center`s website.
A Miami judge is ordering the country of Cuba to fork over $2.8 billion to the former CIA asset that helped authorities locate Che Guevara in 1967. Cubans don’t give a crap though.
It looks as if all of that change Obama was talking about is adding up. A report released while the president is on his Martha`s Vineyard vacation says that the first lady is blowing millions of dollars on lavish trips on America`s dime.
The key Soviet revolutionary who led Russia into a 70-year affair with communism, Vladimir Lenin, will be among the most important exhibits of a new museum inspired by totalitarian legacy to be opened in the former communist state of Bulgaria.
As Russia`s city of Sochi prepares to host the 2014 Winter Games, several key Olympic venues will be ready for testing by the end of 2011: two ski trampolines, the alpine ski resort of Rosa Khutor, a snowboarding park and a freestyle center.
Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov,a former chief of the fourth division of the Moscow City Police Operational Search Department has been detained on suspicion of involvement in the killing of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya on October 7, 2006.
The UN is increasing pressure on Syria, where deadly fighting between government forces and protesters has been raging for almost six months now.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975.
Czech group, PPF, has completely bought out Russian household appliances and electronics retailer, Eldorado, with no price officially disclosed, but Russian daily, Kommersant citing a figure of $625 million, referring to sources.
The woman that accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape earlier this year will be in a New York courtroom today, and those close to the case suspect that there she will formally find out that the case is being put to rest.
Hundreds of students that have come to America from around the world as part of a State Department exchange program are protesting against the Palmyra, PA plant that manufactures treats for the candy company, saying that they`ve been subjected to unjust conditions and wages.
A drama about the fearless Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya who was gunned down in her apartment block in downtown Moscow in October 2006 has had its world premiere in New York to a full house.
A seventh grade special-education student in Missouri is suing the school district for their actions involving repeated rapes she was subjected to on school grounds.
Another selloff in global equities has underlined the fragile nature of global investor sentiment, with risks that simply cannot be discounted driving a flight to safety, and global leaders looking increasingly less able to do anything about it.
Following two recent incidents of shark attacks in the Russian Far East, the authorities in Primorye have come up with a straightforward solution and announced that local sharks will be dealt with by professional fishermen.
Reports of a brain-eating amoeba are on the rise in the country, and it’s already taken a toll on three Americans so far this summer.
They were the first on the scene and now they’re the last ones on the guest list - and that`s if they even get invited. First responders that risked their lives are being told there is no room for them at next month`s 9/11 ceremony.
Folks in the Midwest are lining up along highways to catch a view of the most sought after vehicle of the week. It`s not a souped-up sports car or the latest in biofuel engineering. It doesn`t even have a sick spoiler.
Yet another scandal has rocked the Fair Russia party as the media published photos showing one of its members appearing at a wedding dressed like Admiral Wilhelm Canaris - the head of the Nazi Abwehr spy network.
One of the world’s greatest theater directors - Georgia`s Robert Sturua - has been fired from his job as artistic director of the Rustaveli State Drama Theater in Tbilisi, after three decades of outstanding work.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have gone on a joint fishing trip to the country`s most beloved river - the Volga.
The International Olympic Committee has been checking construction for the Sochi 2014 Games, and the head of the IOC delegation says good progress is being made in the preparations.
A SCHOOLGIRL who posed aged 12 for controversial bikini pictures in a magazine is now pregnant at 15 - to the joy of her mum.