Canada`s Sex Party sues mailmen over explicit pamphlets
Canada`s Sex Party, which advocates a "sex-positive culture," has taken the national postal service to court after letter carriers refused to deliver its sexually explicit pamphlets.
French president divorces with wife
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cecilia have divorced, the president`s office said on Thursday, ending rampant speculation about the state of their 11-year old marriage.
Child "suitcase murder" shocks Sydney
The murder of a young boy whose body was stuffed in a suitcase and thrown into a lake in a Sydney park has shocked Australia`s biggest city.
Russia charges nine in Politkovskaya case
Prosecutors have charged nine people, including a lieutenant-colonel in Russia`s security service, with involvement in the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the Interfax news agency said on Wednesday.
Transport strikes may freeze up France
Paris` subways slowed to a halt and rail lines were disrupted Thursday during a massive strike in France that was expected to give President Nicolas Sarkozy his first real test after five months in office.
Soviet dissident to visit Russia after 15-year break
Vladimir Bukovsky, a former Soviet dissident now living in Britain, who plans to run for the presidency in Russia, will arrive in the country on Tuesday after a 15-year absence.
Timoshenko puts blame for gas explosion in Dnepropetrovsk upon Russian company
Leader of BYT, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Yulia Timoshenko puts the blame for explosion of gas at an apartment block in the city of Dnepropetrovsk upon owners of Dneprogaz Company, a REGNUM correspondent quotes as saying it to reporters yesterday.
Russian `giant` baby feels well
Russia`s heaviest-ever newborn baby, born in the Altai Territory in southern Siberia in September, has been allowed to go home, the chief of the department for infant pathology said Monday.
Putin signs degree on federal border agency
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on setting up a federal agency dedicated to securing Russia`s borders, the Kremlin press office announced on Saturday.
US court sentenced Russian diplomat to imprisonment for money laundering
Former United Nations official Vladimir Kuznetsov has been sentenced in the U.S. to four years and three months in prison for money laundering. Kuznetsov was convicted of laundering $ 300,000 from firms seeking UN contracts.
Russian translation of final Harry Potter book to appear in country`s bookstores tomorrow
Five of Moscow`s leading bookstores will begin selling the Russian translation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, at midnight, on October 13.
Kidnapped uncle of Ingushetia leader released
The uncle of the president of Russia’ s republic of Ingushetia, kidnapped in March, was set free on Thursday without any ransom or conditions, sources from republican law enforcement agencies told Tass.
Russia`s finance minister knows how to fight against inflation
Control over money supply and demand must become a major instrument in the fight against the sharp increase in consumer prices in Russia, the finance minister said.
"Passionate" kiss lands art lover in court
A self-professed art lover stood trial on Tuesday accused of damaging a $2-million painting by kissing it while wearing red lipstick.
Report: African conflicts cost billions
About $18 billion a year has been drained from Africa by nearly two dozen wars in recent decades, a new report states, a price some officials say could`ve helped solve the AIDS crisis and created stronger economies in the world`s poorest region.
Russian authorities "to ensure the country`s sustained demographic development"
Putin approves demographic policy goals through 2025 - 1
Vacations in Russia: Russian travel more, foreign travel less
15 million Russians visited resorts of Krasnodar Territory, Russia, this summer, a third more than last year. In the number of tourists, the domestic tourism to southern Russia overwhelmed overseas travel, which is usually about 5 million Russians.
Nobel Prize in physics goes for nanotech discovery
France`s Albert Fert and German Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for a discovery that lets billions of computer users store reams of data on computer hard drives.
Shoppers bemused by clash between Russia`s wealthiest expats
They were business partners before their relationship soured. Now it seems that the animosity between Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich, two of Russia`s most famous and wealthy expatriates, has reached a new low at a very high-fashion spot - Hermes.
Yuri Chaika: Politkovskaya murder solved
The murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative reporter for Russia’s Novaya Gazeta daily, has been solved, Russian Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika told on the sidelines of the ongoing meeting of the CIS prosecutors-general in Yerevan.
Russia to return Soviet system on fishing quotas
Russia will stop assigning quotas for commercial fishing from January 1, 2008, the head of the fisheries regulator said on Tuesday.
Russia and Kazakhstan disagree on sum of damage from Proton fall
Russia and Kazakhstan could not agree a sum of damage from a Proton-M missile. A compensation sum of the damage will be determined in December 2007, head of Roskosmos (Russian Space Agency) Anatoly Perminov told reporters in Astana on Tuesday.
Georgian ex-defense minister Irakly Okruashvili released on $6 mln bail
A court in Tbilisi released Georgian ex-defense minister Irakly Okruashvili on bail set at 10 million lari (over $6 million), the deputy prosecutor general told the press on Monday.
Crocodile on the run in Ukraine
A crocodile with the nickname Godzilla is on the run in the Southeast of Ukraine and is proving to be a particularly elusive beast. Residents of the city of Mariupol have been desperately trying to catch the escaped reptile for almost five months.
Food price rises were alarming - Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the current rises in the prices of foods as alarming.