Beijing, preparing to host the 2008 Olympics, has ordered hotels to provide condoms in all bedrooms in a bid to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS after cases of infection soared 54 percent in the first 10 months of this year.
The United States on Wednesday submitted a formal proposal to Russia for cooperation on missile defense in eastern Europe, seeking to defuse an issue that has increased tensions between the two countries.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with his Serbian counterpart in Moscow. The visit comes at a sensitive moment in talks between Belgrade and Pristina. Expectations are high for a breakthrough in negotiations on the future status of Kosovo.
Crude oil prices were steady above $97 a barrel Thursday after failing to break above $100 as a U.S. weekly inventory report showed crude oil stocks rose at a key oil terminal.
Russia is to construct a new space centre launch site in the far eastern region of the country, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Wednesday.
More than 3,000 people jailed under emergency rule have been released, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday, the latest sign that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was rolling back some of the harsher measures taken against his opponents.
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned that Moscow would not remain indifferent to NATO`s "muscle-flexing" and said Russia`s nuclear forces would be ready for an adequate response to any aggressor.
Relief workers and the Bangladesh military on Tuesday reached the last remaining pockets of the country devastated by a cyclone that killed nearly 3,500 people along the Bay of Bengal.
The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother`s wife and fathered a child by her.
Saudi Arabia`s crown prince is to travel to Russia on Wednesday for talks that could pave the way for Riyadh to buy Russian weapons for the first time, a Russian diplomat said Monday.
Civil servants, from teachers to air traffic controllers, began a mass walkout Tuesday, the seventh day of a transport strike that has wreaked havoc on French rails. But the government said it would not cede on planned reforms.
American and Russian officials have reached an agreement on how to safely dispose of 34 metric tons of Russian weapons-grade plutonium, overcoming a major hurdle in a joint nuclear nonproliferation effort that at times has been close to falling apart.
Estonia is planning a beauty contest with a difference to mark its 90th birthday, according to a report Monday: the winner will be the world`s prettiest language.
Russia has increased by 75 the number of international monitors invited to attend the December 2 parliamentary elections, a senior lawmaker said on Monday.
Some 272 cases of cholera, including eight deaths, have been detected since the beginning of September in a northeastern district of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a WHO official said Friday.
A mysterious fever has killed at least 14 people and infected two dozen others in western Uganda over the past three weeks, a health ministry official said Friday.
England`s bid to qualify for next year`s European Championship is still alive. Israel beat Russia 2-1 Saturday night, preventing the Russians from climbing past the English into second place in Group E with one game remaining.
OPEC heads of state converged on Riyadh for a rare summit opening Saturday with the organisation divided over the falling US dollar and attempts to give a political impetus to the oil-exporting cartel.
Military ships and helicopters on Saturday were trying to reach thousands of survivors of a super cyclone that killed at least 900 people and pummeled the impoverished country with mighty winds and waves.
A decision by Europe`s top election observer body not to monitor Russia`s parliamentary election overshadowed the start of early voting in remote areas of the world`s biggest country Friday.
A tense Kosovo voted Saturday to elect a government that would lead the troubled province to independence as demanded by majority Albanians but fiercely resisted by Serbs.
The European Commission voiced regret Friday at the cancellation of an OSCE mission to observe Russian elections and urged President Vladimir Putin to ensure that the polls would be "democratic."
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will make a visit to Russia on November 22 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin press service said on Friday.
Russia`s lower house of parliament ratified on Friday an intergovernmental agreement on restructuring Cuba`s $166 million post-Soviet debt to Russia.
North and South Korea agreed Friday to launch rail service across their heavily armed border for the first time in more than half a century, a move symbolizing the growing reconciliation between the two sides.