Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will not recognize opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych as president and has hinted that a third round of election could be held, a Ukrainian online edition said on Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said the Latin American state would allocate some $1 billion to maintain the country`s energy sector and avert the threat of a devastating power collapse, a local newspaper has said.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during his talk with students of Chuvashia State University on Monday said that all current Haitian students in Russia will receive state funding from the federal budget for their tuition fees.
Polish pianist Romuald Koperski got a thunderous ovation after he finished his 101-hour piano recital in Poland`s northern city of Gdansk, setting a new world record for the longest piano playing.
U.S. President Barack Obama`s budget proposal for 2011 to be released on Monday will predict a record $1.6 trillion budget deficit in the current fiscal year, a U.S. administration source has said.
A 21-year-old Moscow resident was detained on Thursday in western Moscow after she attempted to sell four African women into sexual slavery. Aiguyn Azizova accepted nearly $2,000 from an undercover police officer posing as a pimp, in exchange for the women, who came from Nigeria and Ghana.
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Warren Buffett has built a $1 billion stake in Munich Re, boosting his insurance holdings by taking a 3 percent stake in the world`s biggest reinsurer.
At least 18 people have been killed and another 80 injured in a suicide bomb attack at a police crime laboratory in Baghdad, Aljazeera news agency reported on Tuesday.
The UN World Food Program (WFP) has prioritized women in Haiti food aid distribution to ensure that the most vulnerable get access to aid, the WFP executive director told a news conference on Tuesday.
The Russian electricity sector requires a colossal injection of funds in the next decade to repair and modernize dangerously outdated equipment, auditors said.
More than 50% of the world`s computer hacking crimes were carried out from China in 2009, a leading Russian computer security company said in a report on Tuesday.
North Korea has shut down ports on its western coast and could be readying to test-fire missiles, South Korea`s Yonhap agency said on Tuesday, citing a military official.
The fuselage of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off Lebanon yesterday has been discovered in the Mediterranean and is being retrieved, a Lebanese TV channel said on Tuesday.
Motley Crue rocker Nikki Sixx has ended his romance with TV tattoo artist Kat Von D. The pair began dating in 2007, following Von D`s divorce from fellow tattooist Oliver Peck.
Google, the world`s most popular search engine, said last week it was thinking of pulling out of the world`s biggest Internet market after reporting it had been hit by a "sophisticated" cyber-attack on its network that resulted in theft of its intellectual property.
Ukraine`s opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, supported by more than a third of the voters in the country`s presidential election, has said Ukraine will never join a military alliance.
The Ukrainian opposition Party of Regions led by Viktor Yanukovych was "surprised" by a claim of a Georgian female journalist who said she had been beaten by Yanukovych`s bodyguards while trying to ask him a question, a party spokeswoman said on Monday.
Russian doctors in Haiti treated more than 100 earthquake survivors over the weekend, and Emergency Situations Ministry representative said on Monday in Moscow.
Sir Paul McCartney`s friends warned him not to appear on Simon Cowell`s "The X Factor" - but he decided to go ahead after superstar Beyonce Knowles performed on the U.K. talent show. The Beatles legend played two tracks on the live reality competition last month, December 10, but admits he had to carefully consider Cowell`s offer after his pals urged him to turn it down. McCartney insists it was the "Crazy In Love" singer, as well as former X Factor winner Leona Lewis, who inspired him to perform on the show.
Thousands of people are feared dead after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti`s capital, leaving tens of thousands homeless and buried beneath rubble.
A 32-year-old Italian woman has given birth to sextuplets in the southern Italian city of Benevento, the head of the maternity ward where the babies came into the world told journalists on Monday.
Egyptian archaeologists discovered tombs of the workers who built the great Pyramid of Cheops at El Giza, Egypt`s Culture Minister Faruq Hosni said on Sunday.
At least 86 people have been killed by the drug mafia in Mexico over the past few days, the local Excelsior newspaper has said.