Some 700 employees of struggling carmaker AvtoVaz took part in a protest rally in Russia's Volga area city of Tolyatti on Saturday, police said.
Oil output in Azerbaijan reached 37.9 million tons (278.6 mln bbl) metric tons in the first nine months of 2009, the Caspian state's industry and energy minister was quoted as saying on Saturday.
Hacker group Anonymous on Friday took down the website of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), online publication PC Magazine reported.
The Greek cabinet has approved a pack of new austerity measures requested by the Eurozone and the International Monetary Fund to secure a 130-billion euro ($170bln) bailout to avoid default, the Greek national television reported on Saturday.
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin on Friday doubted that Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout deserves solitary confinement as a specially dangerous criminal, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom.
The Iranian Navy has commissioned two Ghadir class diesel-electric submarines to boost Iran’s naval capability, official IRNA news agency reported.