- 22:22 29/07/2009
Global media outlets are increasingly coming under threat from pirate news sites that use original news content without permission, a panel of Russian and U.S. analysts and media representatives said
- 19:30 29/07/2009
A total of 65 people, including two pregnant women and six children, were injured when a bomb-laden truck exploded in the north Spanish city of Burgos early on Wednesday, El Mundo reported.
- 18:02 29/07/2009
A British pensioner, who was found dead under a pile of suitcases filled with goods she had purchased during a 16-year shopping spree, died from natural causes, local media said on Wednesday.
- 16:57 29/07/2009
Russia's Progress M-67 cargo spacecraft successfully docked on Wednesday with the International Space Station (ISS), Russian Mission Control said.
- 15:49 29/07/2009
Court trials will begin on Saturday for 20 demonstrators arrested during last month's post-election riots in Iran, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
- 15:34 29/07/2009
Russia will raise its oil export duty from the current $212.6 to $222 per metric ton from August 1, in line with a government resolution published on Wednesday.
- 15:02 29/07/2009
Moscow will grant a $150 million loan for two years to Cuba to finance deliveries of Russian construction and agricultural machinery and equipment.
- 14:52 29/07/2009
Some 3,000 donkeys are being mobilized to assist in Afghanistan's presidential elections next month, the UN envoy to Afghanistan said on Wednesday.
- 14:47 29/07/2009
Russia's largest gold producer, Polyus Gold, said its gold output declined 14.4%, in January-June 2009, year-on-year, to 14.9 metric tons (479,000 troy ounces)
- 13:53 29/07/2009
Russia's Finance Ministry has submitted a draft budget for 2010-2012 to the government for consideration, a ministry source said on Wednesday.
- 12:58 29/07/2009
A car bomb detonated in the city of Burgos in northern Spain early on Wednesday, leaving 46 people slightly injured, Spanish authorities reported.
- 12:38 29/07/2009
Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin believes the riots that followed April's parliamentary elections will not be repeated after the rerun of the vote on Wednesday.
- 11:34 29/07/2009
Russia's state-controlled oil producer Rosneft said on Wednesday its net profit under Russian Accounting Standards had declined almost 50% in January-June 2009, year-on-year, to 81.32 billion rubles ($2.6 bln).
- 11:29 29/07/2009
Some 50 opposition activists protesting the final results of Kyrgyzstan's presidential elections have been arrested, a Bishkek prosecutor told journalists on Wednesday.
- 11:12 29/07/2009
At least four people died and 50 were injured in a train derailment in southern China on Wednesday, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.
- 10:33 29/07/2009
Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Tbilisi's actions prove Georgia's administration is only thinking about creating military and political hysteria.
- 09:38 29/07/2009
Russia and Nicaragua are to introduce visa-free travel for their citizens under an agreement signed during Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin's visit to the Central American country.
- 08:41 29/07/2009
A car bomb detonated in the city of Burgos in northern Spain early on Wednesday, leaving dozens of people injured, Spanish media reported.
