India has successfully tested the latest land attack version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile at a firing range in Pokhran in the Rajasthan Desert, a source in the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
Russia will donate food, medication, armored vehicles and civilian helicopters to the Palestinian National Authority to help rebuild the Gaza Strip, Russia`s foreign minister said on Monday.
The Russian government will give emergency humanitarian assistance to Zimbabwe, which is suffering from economic meltdown and a massive cholera epidemic, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez believes that high hopes should not be placed on the new U.S. administration or on President Barack Obama, national media said on Friday.
Ukraine`s first president Leonid Kravchuk has urged the current president, Viktor Yushchenko, to step down as head of the country on Ukrainian television.
A Turkish Boeing 737-800 with 127 passengers and seven crewmembers onboard crashed upon landing at Amsterdam`s Schiphol Airport on Wednesday.
Russia`s two main stock exchanges, MICEX and the RTS, opened on Wednesday with their key indexes going up after comments by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
President Barack Obama takes center stage on Tuesday to try to sell the American people on his broader agenda for jolting the United States out of deep recession and confronting long-term economic challenges.
More than 36 million U.S. viewers watched Sunday`s song-and-dance Oscars on television, lifting the glitzy film awards show from record low ratings in 2008, according to national ratings figures on Monday.
Russia has expressed its regret over the deaths of eight Chinese and Indonesian sailors whose ship was fired on by Russian forces.
MOSCOW, February 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is due to meet with his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon near Moscow on Tuesday to discuss key bilateral and regional issues.
Iran will start up its Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant for a test on February 25, a spokesman for the country`s Atomic Energy Organization (AEO) said, according to Iranian media reports.
Two major Georgian opposition groups, the Republican Party and the New Right party, merged on Monday to form the Alliance for Georgia with Tbilisi`s former ambassador to the UN, Irakly Alasaniya.
MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will make a state visit to Spain on March 1-3 at the invitation of King Juan Carlos I, the Kremlin said Friday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday the United States and China can pull the world out of economic crisis by working together and made clear this took precedence over U.S. concerns about human rights in China.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The nearly complete skeleton of a massive Columbian mammoth who died during the last ice age has been dug out of a construction site near the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown Los Angeles, a remarkable find even in the fossil-rich area, scientists said Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - If fashion shows are staged to publicize designers, what then to make of the "Project Runway" show on Friday that presented the designs of the hit television show finalists under a veil of anonymity?
TEHRAN, February 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian-Iranian trade turnover rose to $3.7 billion last year, Russia`s deputy foreign minister said on Friday.
With the opening of the first liquefied natural gas, or LNG, plant on Sakhalin Island in Russia`s Far East, Gazprom is staking a bigger claim to world energy dominance - and signaling a shift toward conquering key Asian markets.
MOSCOW, February 19 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian embassy in North Korea said on Thursday it was attempting to resolve the situation around a Russian ship earlier seized by North Korean authorities.
BEIJING, February 19 (RIA Novosti) - Beijing urged Russia on Thursday to conduct a thorough probe into the sinking of a Chinese cargo ship off Russia`s Pacific Coast over the weekend, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
GENEVA, February 18 (RIA Novosti) - The health crisis in Zimbabwe, which has suffered from food shortages, an AIDS epidemic and its worst cholera outbreak in decades, has deteriorated with over 500,000 requiring urgent medical treatment, local media said.
PRIGORODNY (Sakhalin), February 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia unveiled its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Sakhalin on Wednesday opening up new energy markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
KIEV, February 17 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine has warned Russian Ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin that he could be expelled from the country over "unfriendly and extremely undiplomatic assessments, comments and statements regarding Ukraine and its leadership."
MINSK, February 16 (RIA Novosti) - Police in the Belarusian capital of Minsk are to begin bussing drunks and other wayward elements of society to church to hear sermons, a police spokesperson said on Monday.