- 18:30 13/06/2008
- 18:13 13/06/2008
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich reportedly paid troubled British singer Amy Winehouse, a recovering crack addict, around $2 million to perform at the opening of his girlfriend's art gallery.
- 17:21 13/06/2008
Ukraine will contribute to the NATO Response Force as a partner country, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Friday.
- 16:42 13/06/2008
The administration chief of a district in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya where militants killed three civilians in a raid denied on Friday reports that hostages were taken.
- 15:35 13/06/2008
Russia's defense minister said after talks with NATO counterparts on Friday that disagreements over the CFE treaty and U.S. missile shield plans continue to hold back Russia-NATO relations.
- 15:21 13/06/2008
The death toll has risen to four following a natural gas supply explosion in a food store in Nazran, a city in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, investigators said on Friday.
- 15:16 13/06/2008
- 14:27 13/06/2008
Russia's defense minister will meet with his NATO counterparts in Brussels on Friday for talks expected to focus on Russia's role in the Georgian rebel region of Abkhazia and U.S. missile shield plans.
- 14:17 13/06/2008
Forty-three miners were left trapped underground after a coal mine blast in northern China Shanxi province on Friday, news agency Xinhua reported.
- 13:44 13/06/2008
United States President George W. Bush met with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican on Friday, two months after the pontiff's trip to Washington.
- 13:26 13/06/2008
Three civilians were killed, one injured and several abducted when a group of around 60 militants attacked a village in eastern Chechnya in the North Caucasus, a local police source said on Friday.
- 12:53 13/06/2008
Israeli troops killed three militants in the north of the Gaza Strip on Friday, local radio reported.
- 12:44 13/06/2008
A quartet of Russian billionaires owning half of oil company TNK-BP issued a statement on Friday on the start of legal proceedings against co-owner BP, condemning 'illegal' steps by the British company.
- 11:44 13/06/2008
- 10:50 13/06/2008
One person was killed in a bomb blast in the center of Makhachkala, the capital of the North Caucasus Republic of Daghestan, the local security service said on Friday.
