Global oil prices may fall to $60 per barrel within the next three years for a period of about six months, which will have a strong negative impact on the Russian economy as it heavily depends on world energy prices, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Wednesday.
Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, will voluntarily meet with British police to discuss a European arrest warrant, the Guardian said Tuesday citing his lawyers.
China is not going to take either side in the standoff on the Korean Peninsula, but says dialogue is the only way out as tensions mount between the two Koreas.
A school in England has banned hot drinks from a coffee morning.
Flu vaccination campaign in Russia successfully continues in Russia both at the expense of the federal budget and private employers, the country`s chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said.
Poland hopes to make public a technical report on the April plane crash, that killed the Polish president and 95 others near Russia`s Smolensk, next year in January, the Polish interior minister said.
Estonia plans to get rid of street telephone booths and cancel the use of telephone cards intended for them starting Wednesday, country`s Elion telecommunications company said in a statement.
The United States hopes to finalize an agreement on child adoptions with Russia this week and sign it in the nearest future, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of State said.
Representatives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signatory countries will on Monday gather in Mexico`s Cancun for a summit to draw out a plan to curb global warming.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will on Monday hold a meeting of the commission on economy modernization and technological development.
A bill imposing harsher punishments for attacks on journalists has been submitted to the lower house of Russia`s parliament, a lawmaker said on Friday.
The number of least developed states (LDCs) has almost doubled in the past 40 years, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in its annual report.
Russia plans to take a number of steps to ease visa requirements for high-profile foreign professionals who work in the country, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Friday.
An outbreak of cholera in the Caribbean state of Haiti has claimed the lives of some 1,415 people, the country`s health ministry reported on its website.
Russia is searching for 1,535 criminals through Interpol channels and needs more bilateral extradition agreements with foreign countries, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
The future for Europe`s monetary union looks increasingly bleak as ever more Eurozone nations ask for bailouts to cope with their mounting debts. Greece is nearly bankrupt, and in Ireland the threat of national insolvency is taking its toll on the country`s top politicians.
Kim Jong-un, son of and heir-apparent to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is one of the world`s least well known national political figures. Even his exact date of birth is not known for sure, with North Korea first saying 1983, then 1982.
North Korea opened artillery fire at a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing one soldier and provoking a retaliatory attack from the South, Seoul`s YTN television reported.
Russian vehicle maker GAZ Group and German car giant Daimler AG plan to invest more than 120 million euros in the production of Mercedes vans in Russia, while the group`s management has requested the government to provide exclusive benefits for the project, Kommersant business daily reported on Tuesday.
TNK-BP announces that today, as part of its strategy to expand its business internationally, the company has signed a cooperation agreement with the Vietnamese state corporation PetroVietnam outlining the further steps and activities to be undertaken as part of the companies` long-term cooperation.
North Korea is likely to prepare a new underground nuclear test explosion, the Russian Trud daily said on Thursday citing Japanese Kyodo news agency.
The death toll from Haiti`s cholera epidemic has topped 1,100 people, the Caribbean`s country health ministry said.
Russia is planning to launch two Nigerian satellites into orbit in December, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Russia should find and bring to justice those guilty of the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a pre-trial detention center, the U.S. State Department said.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Wednesday that a possible visit to the disputed Kuril Islands, called the Northern Territories by Japan, deserved careful consideration.