- 22:17 15/07/2009
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to meet with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday for talks aimed at calming tensions between the two nuclear states.
- 21:22 15/07/2009
A U.S. guided-missile destroyer participated in a combined training exercise with Georgian warships near the Black Sea port of Batumi on Wednesday, the Coast Guard press service said.
- 21:17 15/07/2009
A search has begun for the black boxes from a passenger plane that crashed in northern Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board, the country's ISNA news agency reported.
- 20:24 15/07/2009
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Georgia on July 22-23 and meet with the Georgian leadership, the Georgian presidential press service said on Wednesday.
- 18:11 15/07/2009
Nabucco is not a serious rival to Russia's Nord Stream and South Stream gas pipeline projects, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Wednesday.
- 18:07 15/07/2009
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was elected as chair of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at its 15th summit on Wednesday.
- 17:40 15/07/2009
A Nigerian lottery winner gave all her winnings to a street beggar an hour after being given the cheque, Ananova reported.
- 17:38 15/07/2009
The presidents of Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan will discuss the Nagorny Karabakh peace process in Moscow on Saturday, a Russian presidential aide said on Wednesday.
- 17:23 15/07/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet on Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Munich to discuss bilateral trade, economic cooperation, and energy security, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
- 17:02 15/07/2009
A Swiss chocolate company has claimed to have resolved the eternal problem of chocolate that melts in your hands, Germany's Die Spiegel newspaper has reported.
- 16:10 15/07/2009
The death toll following ethnic clashes in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region has risen to 192, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.
- 16:07 15/07/2009
A recent mission involving launches of ballistic missiles from under ice proved the combat readiness of the naval component of Russia's nuclear triad, a high-ranking Navy source said Wednesday.
- 16:02 15/07/2009
The fatal crash of an airliner in Iran on Wednesday is believed to have been caused by a fire in one of the engines, Armenian state television reported.
- 15:54 15/07/2009
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's wild antics in his latest film Bruno, in which he stars as a camp Austrian fashion reporter, have fallen foul of government censors in Ukraine.
- 14:56 15/07/2009
A man in the German town of Duesseldorf set fire to his flat when an inflatable mattress he was trying to mend exploded, national media said on Wednesday.
- 14:16 15/07/2009
A chief military observer with the United Nations mission in Abkhazia has left the former Georgian republic, a source in the mission said.
- 13:57 15/07/2009
Six Ukrainian contract workers died when their helicopter was shot down in south Afghanistan, the helicopter owner said on Wednesday.
- 13:57 15/07/2009
A passenger plane crashed on Wednesday in northwest Iran killing all 168 people on board, Iranian state media reported.
- 13:44 15/07/2009
Russia's oil output (including gas condensate) increased 0.1%, year-on-year, in January-June 2009 to 242 million metric tons (1.77 billion barrels), the Federal Statistics Service Rosstat said on Wednesday.
