- 22:04 20/08/2008
U.S. agreements on deploying elements of its missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic provoke an arms race and do not provide for European security, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. 
- 22:00 20/08/2008
Spanish authorities have said that 146 people were killed and 34 were injured in a plane crash at Madrid Barajas International Airport, national media said Wednesday.
- 21:11 20/08/2008
Spanish authorities have said that over 100 people died and 34 were injured in a plane crash at Madrid Barajas International Airport on Wednesday.
- 18:52 20/08/2008
The death toll in a plane crash at Madrid Barajas International Airport has reached 40 people, with 20 more reported to have been seriously injured, local media reported Wednesday.
- 18:15 20/08/2008
Iran plans to send its first astronaut into space within the next decade, the head of the Iran Aerospace Organization said on Wednesday.
- 18:13 20/08/2008
Abkhazia's parliament has approved an appeal by the president of the separatist republic for Russia to recognize its independence from Georgia.
- 18:13 20/08/2008
At least seven people were killed and 20 injured when a plane crashed on Wednesday during takeoff at Madrid Barajas International Airport, Spain's national television reported.
- 17:04 20/08/2008
Oil supplies from Azerbaijan to Turkey, cut following a recent fire at the Turkish section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, will be resumed shortly, the Turkish operator said on Wednesday
- 16:54 20/08/2008
The Russian president expressed his condolences on Wednesday to relatives of at least 65 people killed in a series of terrorist blasts in Algeria over the past two days.
- 16:27 20/08/2008
King Abdullah II of Jordan will visit Russia on August 21-24, the Kremlin press service said on Wednesday.
- 16:27 20/08/2008
Russia continues to withdraw its troops from Georgia despite the tense situation in the South Ossetian conflict zone, a senior Russian military official said Wednesday.
- 15:35 20/08/2008
Ukraine will not prevent Russian Black Sea Fleet ships that were involved in a peace enforcement operation in Georgia from returning to their base, Ukraine's defense minister said on Wednesday.
- 15:34 20/08/2008
Russian wrestler Buvaisa Saitiev grabbed gold on Wednesday in the men's 74 kg freestyle event in Beijing becoming three-time Olympic champion.
- 15:13 20/08/2008
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski signed on Wednesday a formal agreement on the deployment of U.S. missile defense elements on Polish soil.
- 14:29 20/08/2008
Russia-NATO cooperation is not at risk and it would be wrong to scale down the strategic partnership between Russia and the West amid global instability, Moscow's envoy to the military alliance has said.
- 14:21 20/08/2008
Authorities in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia said on Wednesday that 1,492 of the province's residents were killed in Georgia's August 8 military offensive, according to revised data.
- 13:28 20/08/2008
Russia's synchronized swimming duo, Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Yermakova, defended their Olympic title on Wednesday winning Russia's 12th gold of the Beijing games.
- 12:50 20/08/2008
The first five days of the conflict in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia cost Russia around 12.5 billion rubles ($508.7 million), a popular daily said on Wednesday
- 12:50 20/08/2008
A senior Russian military officer has been detained in southern Russia on suspicion of spying for Georgia, a spokesman for Russia's security service said on Wednesday.
