- 18:26 17/08/2008
Russia's Gulnara Galkina-Samitova won an Olympic gold medal in the women's 3000m steeplechase at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday, setting a new world record. 
- 18:07 17/08/2008
Iran has successfully launched its first domestically built satellite, the news agency of the Islamic Republic reported on Sunday.
- 17:55 17/08/2008
Israel approved on Sunday the early release of some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the press office of the Israeli cabinet said.
- 17:13 17/08/2008
The armed conflict between Georgia and Russia over breakaway South Ossetia wiped $7 billion off the Russian stock market, Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Sunday.
- 15:28 17/08/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday during a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that Russian troops would start their pullout from Georgia on August 18.
- 15:06 17/08/2008
Three miners were killed following an accident at a coal mine in southwest Siberia, a local representative of Russia's industrial safety watchdog said on Sunday.
- 14:46 17/08/2008
Russia rejected on Sunday the Georgian authorities' statements that Russian peacekeepers had allegedly occupied the Georgian villages of Khashuri and Akhalgori.
- 13:29 17/08/2008
Russia's Yelena Dementyeva has won the gold medal in the final of women's tennis event of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, after beating her compatriot Dinara Safina 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.
- 13:07 17/08/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks for larger role of Europe's main security and human rights watchdog in the Georgian-South Ossetia conflict zone, the Kremlin press office said on Sunday.
- 12:48 17/08/2008
The political fate of Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia must be decided by South Ossetians themselves, Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said on Sunday.
- 12:06 17/08/2008
The international community will provide all necessary aid to refugees from war-torn South Ossetia following Georgia's assault on its breakaway republic, Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said on Sunday.
