Two members of the Polish opposition Law and Justice party have arrived in the United States to ask the country for help in investigating the Polish plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, Poland`s TVN24 channel said on Wednesday.
At least eight Taliban fighters have been killed in a failed bid to bomb the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.
Haiti`s cholera outbreak has spread to the capital Port-au-Prince, putting the lives of millions of homeless people at risk.
British companies are interested in participating in Russia`s hi-tech hub, Skolkovo, a source in the Russian delegation at the G20 summit said on Friday.
A beauty contest for the best Guinea pig will be held on Friday in the Russian central city of Tula some 120 miles outside Moscow, a city zoo official said.
About 40% of Russians, or almost 57 million people, drink to excess, a Health Ministry top specialist told Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Friday.
Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in coma for nearly five years, was transferred to his home, the Sheba Medical Center said on Friday.
Russia has no plans to use its sovereign assets to help bale out Ireland, which is facing financial and economic difficulties, presidential economic adviser Arkady Dvorkovich said on Friday.
Japan has delayed signing an economic cooperation deal with Russia in protest to the recent visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to a disputed island in the Kuril Islands chain, Kyodo news agency said on Friday.
G20 leaders have agreed to avoid excessive currency volatility and abstain from devaluations to prop up the competitiveness of their economies, in an agreement signed by the group on Friday said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday welcomed the British government`s intentions to improve soured relations with Moscow.
China is interested in developing Russian language as a school subject, Russia`s deputy Education Minister said on Wednesday.
Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday called on South Korean businesses to invest in Russia.
Russia has introduced to the UN a draft resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism and the desecration of World War II monuments.
The Russian government has commissioned the renewal of the "Caspian Sea Monster," the legendary ground effect vehicle (GEV). Only 30 such crafts were built in the Soviet Union over two decades.
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A former CIA agent serving a 23-year prison term in the United States for spying for Russia has confessed that he has been maintaining contacts with Moscow, BBC Russia said on Tuesday.
China has launched a new meteorological satellite, Xinhua reported.
No one survived in a plane crash in Cuba occurred on Thursday night in Santi Spiritus province, Cuban media said.
People are being evacuated from temporally shelters in Haiti, which is still devastating after a January earthquake, as Hurricane Tomas approaching the country, world media said.
A total of 13 people, including four Russians, accused of spying, were arrested in Georgia, Georgian Interior Ministry said Friday.
Russia`s consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor rejected 655,000 liters of imported Moldovan wine in October due to safety reasons, the Russian chief sanitary doctor said.
The United States backs Japan in its dispute with Russia over the Kuril Islands and keeps on calling on both countries to reach a compromise, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of State said.
Prosecutors in Russia`s volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan are investigating the murder of an imam in the city of Khasavyurt.
The living conditions on the Kuril Islands will someday be like those in central Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday.