Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered a total of 5 billion rubles ($165 million) to be disbursed from the federal budget to the central Russian areas worst affected by wildfires, his spokesman said on Friday.
A hacker accused of creating one the world`s biggest ever viruses - which infected up to 12 million computers, including those of banks and major corporations - has been arrested.
Officials have said more than 150 people were killed when a passenger plane crashed in dense forest on the outskirts of Pakistan`s capital Islamabad.
More than 600 photographs of the British royal family will be placed on photo-sharing website Flickr, British media said.
A 15-year-old teenagers miraculously survived after he fell 16 floors down of an apartment block in Auckland, New Zealand Herald reported.
Russia`s MiG-35 Fulcrum-F jet fighter corresponds to all the requirements of an Indian tender aimed at acquiring a series of fighter jets, a department head for Russia`s state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Monday.
More than 9,000 passengers have become stranded at the Chengdu Airport because of heavy rains over the last two days, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
Russia will most likely continue holding a second place on the global market of new multirole fighter jets until at least 2013, a Russian arms trade expert said.
Argentina has become the first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage.
British immigration officials have been denying charity holidays to Belarusian and Ukrainian children from areas affected by the Chernobyl disaster, Britain`s The Independent newspaper has said.
U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. has agreed to provide the Russian government with source codes for the latest Microsoft products, a Russian business daily said on Wednesday.
Kyrgyz authorities will demand again the extradition of ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev from Belarus, a senior interim government official said Wednesday.
The Russian lower house of parliament and the Communications Ministry have prepared separate draft laws to regulate the use of the Internet in Russia, a respected business daily said on Wednesday.
France is on the verge of becoming the first European nation to ban traditional Muslim dress in public places - a measure likely to cause angry protests in the Muslim world, including immigrant communities across Europe.
Two Russian sailors from the North Spirit ship who were captured off Cameroon in mid-May and released on Saturday said on Tuesday they felt well despite a serious loss of weight in captivity.
A fire at a transformer station left almost 240,000 people without power in Canada`s largest city of Toronto, and threatened to disrupt a state dinner planned by the Canadian government for Queen Elizabeth II.
Nine miners died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a coal mine in Henan province, in central China, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
Kyrgyzstan plans to use its own resources to recover from a wave of violence that hit the country in June, the country`s new president said on Monday.
More than 20 people were killed and 19 injured when a bus caught fire in eastern China, Xinhua cited local authorities as saying on Monday.
BP has spent a total of $3.12 billion on cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said in a press release on Monday.
The current political crisis in Kyrgyzstan was caused by a power struggle between domestic drug clans, the head of Russia`s Federal Drug Control Service said.
Russia wants an explanation from the United States over the arrest of a group of suspected Russian spies, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
Russia has proposed hosting the G20 summit in 2013 and the decision will be made this fall, a top Russian presidential aide said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev believes the G8 still has a future and is too early "to scrap."
The leaders of major economies that gathered in Toronto, Canada, for a G20 summit on Saturday and Sunday, agreed on the next steps to create sustainable and balanced growth and to reform and strengthen financial systems.