- 18:16 09/03/2008
Israel and armed Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have reached a ceasefire agreement, an Israeli website said on Sunday, referring to sources in the Palestinian enclave. 
- 17:26 09/03/2008
One person has been killed and five others have been injured after a helicopter with foreign tourists aboard crashed in south-east Tajikistan, the republic's interior ministry said on Sunday.
- 17:00 09/03/2008
Russian energy giant Gazprom could become a sponsor of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, a British newspaper said on Sunday.
- 16:34 09/03/2008
Eighteen persons were killed and over 50 injured after a bus rammed into a passenger train at a rail crossing in Argentina early on Sunday, the Argentine Cronica TV channel reported.
- 15:46 09/03/2008
Iran is ready to negotiate with the European Union over its controversial nuclear program, if these talks were productive, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday.
- 14:43 09/03/2008
Police have detained a person suspected of involvement in the murder of a senior police officer in North Ossetia in Russia's restive North Caucasus region, a local police source said on Sunday.
- 14:00 09/03/2008
Voting started in Spain's general election on Sunday, with the country's 35 million eligible voters set to decide whether to return the ruling Socialists to power.
- 13:00 09/03/2008
A court in the Saratov Region in southern Russia sanctioned the arrest of four persons suspected of involvement in the murder of the regional prosecutor, Russia's Investigative Committee said Sunday.
- 12:06 09/03/2008
A European carrier rocket took off from French Guiana early on Sunday on a mission to bring supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for Russia's mission control said.
