Washington, Nov 21 (RIA Novosti) US President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped below 50 percent for the first time since he took office, according to the latest Gallup poll. Gallup's ...

Kaliningrad (Russia), Nov 18 (RIA Novosti) A Russian shipyard will float out the first of three frigates for the Indian Navy Nov 27, a company spokesman said. The Yantar shipyard in Russia's ...

Yekaterinberg (Russia), Nov 17 (RIA Novosti) A Russian police officer from the Urals city of Severouralsk killed himself after accidentally shooting his female colleague dead, an official said Tuesday. Pavel Limonov, 26, accidentally ...

Kabul, Nov 15 (RIA Novosti) A traditional Buzkashi sport competition is scheduled here next week in honour of President Hamid Karzai's inauguration, an official said. The competition, which will be held Nov ...

Perm (Russia), Nov 14 (RIA Novosti) A 25-year old man was killed, dismembered, eaten and body parts sold to a fast-food stall here in the Ural region of Russia, officials said Friday. Investigators ...

Ulyanovsk (Russia), Nov 14 (RIA Novosti) One person was killed and 35 others were missing after a fire broke out at a military ammunition depot here in the Volga region of Russia, ...

Tokyo, Nov 14 (RIA Novosti) US President Barack Obama and Japan Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama are at odds on a US military base in the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. Obama ...

Grozny (Chechnya), Nov 14 (RIA Novosti) Russian security forces have killed at least 20 militants in the restive North Caucasus republic of Chechnya Friday, an official said. Most of the bodies could not ...

Moscow, Nov 13 (RIA Novosti) An Australian Army sniffer dog has been found alive and well after spending 14 months in the Afghan desert, media reports said. Sabi, a four-year-old black Labrador, ...

Moscow, Nov 13 (RIA Novosti) A pencil that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin supposedly used at a recent news conference has gone on sale on the Internet auction site eBay, a media ...

Moscow, Nov 13 (RIA Novosti) A drunken military officer threw two eight-year-old girls out of an eighth-floor window of their mother's apartment here, the police said Thursday. "Today (Thursday) at about 1.00 a.m. ...

Brussels, Nov 13 (RIA Novosti) The European Union (EU) is hoping that Russia will not abolish the moratorium on the death penalty, an official of the 27-member block has said. Russia undertook ...

Beijing, Nov 13 (RIA Novosti) China has urged the US to stop supporting the Dalai Lama and to show support for its territorial integrity, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday. "We ...

St Petersburg, Nov 12 (RIA Novosti) A Russian advanced nuclear submarine has started sea trials following its lengthy modernisation at the Zvezdochka shipyard in northern Russia, the company said. The overhaul of Delta-IV ...

Moscow, Nov 10 (RIA Novosti) Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, turned 90 Tuesday. Then-Soviet soldier Kalashnikov was inspired to design the weapon after being wounded in 1941 during ...

Kiev, Nov 9 (RIA Novosti) The swine flu toll in Ukraine has risen to 155, the health ministry said Monday. Most of the deaths occurred in the western regions of Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk, ...

Moscow, Nov 2 (RIA Novosti) A carrier rocket with two European satellites has been successfully launched from the Plesetsk space centre in northwest Russia, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said ...

Moscow, Nov 1 (RIA Novosti) A Russian nuclear submarine has successfully test-fired a ballistic missile, authorities said Sunday. "On Nov 1, the Northern Fleet's nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine, Bryansk, successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic ...

Vladivostok, Nov 1 (RIA Novosti) A Russian interior ministry plane with 11 crewmembers on board crashed several minutes after taking off in Yakutia, authorities said Sunday. "All 11 people died in the air ...

Moscow, Oct 31 (RIA Novosti) A 112-year-old Somali man has married a 17-year-old girl in central Somalia. The wedding took place in the village of Guriceel in central Somalia, one of the ...

Moscow, Oct 31 (RIA Novosti) The US rhythm and blues queen Beyonce will perform here Monday as part of her world tour. Beyonce will bring a crew of 100 dancers, singers, hairstylists, ...

Moscow, Oct 31 (RIA Novosti) The world's largest cruise liner Oasis of the Seas has begun her maiden voyage after leaving Finland Friday. The 1,200 feet ship is worth nearly $1.5 billion. The ...

Moscow, Oct 30 (RIA Novosti) The Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf said Friday that the country is reviewing a draft legislation to restrict the number of patients allowed to undergo euthanasia to ...

Buenos Aires, Oct 30 (RIA Novosti) The Venezuelan parliament has passed a law holding as illegal the production, import and sale of toy weapons and violent video games, a media report Friday ...

Moscow, Oct 28 (RIA Novosti) The UN secretary general has said that disbanding militias in Lebanon, particularly Hezbollah, is 'of vital importance'. "The threats posed by the existence of militias outside the control ...

Minsk, Oct 27 (RIA Novosti) No survivors were found at the crash site of a Russian business jet carrying at least five people near the Minsk airport, an official in Belarus said ...

Moscow, Oct 25 (RIA Novosti) Four UN nuclear inspectors arrived in Iran early Sunday to inspect the country's second uranium enrichment facility. The delegation from the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy ...

Moscow, Oct 23 (RIA Novosti) UN nuclear inspectors are expected to arrive in Iran Saturday to inspect the country's second uranium enrichment facility near the city of Qom, a media report said. Iran's ...

Washington, Oct 23 (RIA Novosti) The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has put Ukrainian-born businessman Semion Mogilevich, an alleged organised crime boss, on its 10 most wanted list. Mogilevich, who holds several ...

Havana, Oct 22 (RIA Novosti) Cuban rum producers intend to increase supplies to Russia to more than a million litres a year, a vice-president of a rum producing company said. Cuba's current rum ...