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 ...

New York, Oct 21 (RIA Novosti) The Russian delegation to the UN has submitted two draft resolutions on confidence-building measures and on the prevention of arms race in space. The resolution has to ...

Kiev, Oct 20 (RIA Novosti) Ukraine's parliament will discuss Tuesday the allegations about involvement of its three unnamed members and others in child sex abuse at a well-known holiday camp, a report ...

Simferopol, Oct 20 (RIA Novosti) More than 5,000 inhabitants of the Crimean city of Feodosia were evacuated from their homes Tuesday morning as a World War II mine was removed from a ...

Baghdad, Oct 17 (RIA Novosti) A military delegation from Iraq will visit Moscow soon to discuss the purchase of Russian weaponry, an Iraqi parliament member has said. "A large delegation from the Iraqi ...

Tbilisi, Oct 14 (RIA Novosti) The head of Georgia's Labour party Tuesday urged Washington to investigate the involvement of some US officials in "bankrolling" Georgia's "rose revolution" in 2003. Labour Party leader Shalva ...

Moscow, Oct 13 (RIA Novosti) Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after talks with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday that neither country is seeking to impose sanctions against Iran ...

Beijing, Oct 13 (RIA Novosti) Contracts worth $3.5 billion have been signed at a Russian-Chinese business forum here, Russia's deputy prime minister said Tuesday. The bilateral business forum coincided with a visit to ...

Moscow, Oct 13 (RIA Novosti) US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is expected to focus on Iran's nuclear programme and the replacement of the current arms reduction treaty between Washington and Moscow ...

United Nations, Oct 13 (RIA Novosti) Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom has been appointed by United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) as its Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his commitment to children's rights, a ...

Moscow, Oct 11 (RIA Novosti) The re-entry capsule of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft has landed safely in Kazakhstan's steppe Sunday, officials said. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, NASA's (US space agency) Michael Barratt ...

Moscow, Oct 10 (RIA Novosti) The decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama was hasty and premature, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday. The Nobel ...

Brussels, Oct 7 (RIA Novosti) Finland, which earlier raised environmental concerns over the proposed 1,200-km long Nord Stream gas pipeline project, is set to give its approval to the project, a report ...

Paris, Oct 6 (RIA Novosti) The world-famous Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris celebrates its 120th anniversary Tuesday. The Moulin Rouge was opened in Paris Oct 6, 1889, by Catalan-born impresario Joseph Oller. The ...

Moscow, Oct 1 (RIA Novosti) Six countries Russia, Britain, China, France, Germany and the US are meeting Iran in Geneva later Thursday for talks on Iran's nuclear programme and its second uranium ...

Moscow, Sep 29 (RIA Novosti) Trade between India and Russia could reach $10 billion in 2010, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said Tuesday. "Trade is forecast to reach $8.4 billion in 2009, ...

Seoul, Sep 26 (RIA Novosti) Hundreds of North and South Koreans separated by the Korean War (1950-53) met north of the border Saturday in the first such reunion in two years, a ...