Another scandal connected with the struggle for the rights of homosexual individuals is gathering pace in the United States. The Supreme Court of California upheld the ban on gay married on May 26. The verdict was based on the results of the referendum conducted in November 2008. The amendment, which the Californians approved, banned gay marriage and defined ‘family’ as a union between a man and a woman.
Scottish singer Susan Boyle`s unexpected defeat in the finals of "Britain`s Got Talent" reality show Saturday has helped U.K. bookmakers make a fortune, British TV channel Sky News reported Sunday.
Twenty-two Russian students are still being held in police custody in Egypt and the date of their release is unknown, Russian Vice-Consul in Cairo Timur Agametov said on Sunday.
The United States’ biggest car maker General Motors is preparing to file for bankruptcy next Monday. Many analysts believe that following government intervention it is inevitable. RIA Novosti caught up with Lee E. Ohanian professor of economics at UCLA to find out his views on GM and the prospects for its bankrupcy.
Experts from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are to present a package of measures to tackle the global economic crisis at a St. Petersburg forum in June, a deputy SCO secretary general said.
An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale hit the Caribbean Sea early on Thursday morning, killing at least one person and destroying homes in Honduras and Belize, regional media said.
Belarus has turned down a new loan tranche from Russia worth $500 million, insisting that it be denominated in dollars rather than Russian rubles, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Thursday.
Russia and Cuba have agreed to renew their cooperation in nuclear research with Cuba`s Nuclear Energy Agency, head of Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko said on Wednesday.
According to the World Health Organization`s latest update, a total of 13,398 people in 48 countries worldwide have been officially diagnosed with the A/H1N1 influenza virus, with a total of 95 deaths.
Brazil`s state visit to China has set the chins wagging. Will an agreement be struck to invoice their bilateral trade in their own currencies rather than the dollar? Brazilian President Lula had made some allusions to this last month around the G20 meeting.
By David Hunkar
Russian billionaire, the former owner of Moscow’s renowned Cherkizovsky Market, Telman Ismailov, surprised the whole world on Saturday (May 23) as he opened his luxury hotel - Mardan Palace in Antalya, Turkey.
Many analysts said that the Islamic financial system would suffer least from the financial crisis. Islam bans the interest rate, which is the basis of wealth and the source of trouble for the traditional world of money.
The Church of Scientology went on trial in a Paris court on Monday on charges of fraud, following a suit filed by a woman who says the church manipulated her into parting with her savings.
China`s official foreign exchange manager is still buying record amounts of U.S. government bonds, in spite of Beijing`s increasingly vocal fear of a dollar collapse, the Financial Times reported.
A destroyer from Russia`s Pacific Fleet, which was escorting six merchant vessels through the Gulf of Aden, fired warning shots at Somali pirates as they tried to seize a ship, a Navy spokesman said on Monday.
A 57-year-old Indian preacher died and 17 others were injured, many seriously, after men brandishing guns and knives attacked people in a Sikh temple in Vienna, Austrian radio said.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested four men accused of planning to blow up a synagogue in New York, along with other terrorist attacks.
The United States will give Pakistan $100 million to help refugees, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday.
A 65-year-old Australian citizen Geoff Ostling leaves his tattoo-covered skin to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
Law-enforcement authorities have arrested warehouses of one of the biggest foreign shock absorber producers - Kayaba Industry, because a Russian inventor who received a patent for an absorber construction claims a 30-million-dollar compensation. Lawyers suppose that the intellectual property right case may take several years at court.
Europe’s economy contracted at the fastest pace in at least 13 years in the first quarter as companies cut output and jobs to survive the worst global slump in more than six decades.
With overall global economic growth slowing to a near standstill this year, 2009 will be the most challenging year for economies since World War II, according to an International Monetary Fund report.
An New York middle school assistant principal who was hospitalized with the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, died Sunday apparently from flu complications, a hospital spokesman said.
Chile`s health minister confirmed on Sunday the country`s first cases of the H1N1 flu virus in two Chilean women who had returned from a trip to the Dominican Republic.