- 22:03 09/07/2009
South Korea could host a G20 summit in 2010, a Russian presidential aide said Thursday.
- 21:27 09/07/2009
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that commitments made by the G8 industrial nations to tackle climate change did not go far enough.
- 21:05 09/07/2009
A total of 336 people were injured and some 2,700 buildings damaged in a powerful earthquake that struck southwest China's Yunan Province on Thursday, the Xinhua news agency said.
- 20:29 09/07/2009
Moscow is to host the first European parliamentary games on October 1-5, a Russian MP said Thursday.
- 20:21 09/07/2009
China's Communist Party promised on Thursday to "severely punish" the instigators of recent deadly riots in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
- 19:49 09/07/2009
Hollywood star George Clooney flew into G8 host city L'Aquilla on Thursday by helicopter to take part in a cinema opening ceremony in the quake-stricken Italian province.
- 18:54 09/07/2009
The wreckage of the Air France airliner that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1 killing all 228 people on board has been sent to France for further analysis, the Radio France Internationale said.
- 18:31 09/07/2009
Russia's Air Force chief dismissed on Thursday Georgian claims that Russia was spying on its territory using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
- 18:29 09/07/2009
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's Bedouin tent has been erected on a soccer field in Italy's L'Aquila, the venue for the three-day Group of Eight summit.
- 16:43 09/07/2009
The G8 has not yet become obsolete as a forum for the leaders of the world's most industrialized economies, Russian presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said on Thursday.
- 16:26 09/07/2009
Americans are continuing to get fat with around 80 million people out of a population of 306 million now classed as obese, a new study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said.
- 16:12 09/07/2009
Participants in the G8 summit in Italy have unanimously backed recent Russian and U.S. agreements to conclude a new strategic arms reduction deal by the end of the year, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Thursday.
- 15:55 09/07/2009
Moscow is confused over an initiative by some PACE members to try and deny Russia the right to vote during assembly sessions, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 15:35 09/07/2009
Russia's broadly defined monetary base expanded 5.4% to 4.968 trillion rubles ($155.25 bln) as of July 1 from 4.712 trillion rubles ($147.25 bln) on June 1, the Central Bank reported on Thursday.
- 15:33 09/07/2009
os Angeles authorities spent a total of $1.4 million on the memorial service for the late pop star Michael Jackson, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
- 15:26 09/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday that parliament's decision on Kuril Islands did not foster an atmosphere of trust, a presidential aide said.
- 14:44 09/07/2009
Russia welcomes a proposal to hold a second Group of Eight summit in the central Italian town of L'Aquila later this year, a Kremlin aide said on Thursday.
- 14:08 09/07/2009
The Nigerian authorities are providing every assistance to Russian diplomats working for the release of two Russian sailors taken hostage last Sunday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 13:54 09/07/2009
Russia believes the EU has no legal grounds to unilaterally review conditions for issuing Schengen visas to Russian nationals, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
