- 21:14 31/07/2009
A Norwegian-registered cargo ship with six Russian and Ukrainian crew sank in a heavy storm in the North Sea off Sweden on Friday.
- 20:41 31/07/2009
The Palestinian Hamas movement organized a mass wedding of 450 couples and engagement ceremony for another 100 couples in Gaza City's main square on Friday as thousands looked on.
- 20:32 31/07/2009
The space shuttle Endeavour touched down at 10:48 a.m. EDT (14:48 GMT) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said on Friday.
- 20:18 31/07/2009
Concert organizers are pulling out all the stops to ensure Madonna's one stop in Russia for her Sticky & Sweet tour goes off without a hitch, including taking steps to prevent rain falling on the day.
- 19:11 31/07/2009
Panic broke out during an international flight from Abu Dhabi to Cairo when a small crocodile was discovered scuttling around the cabin, Egyptian media reported
- 17:49 31/07/2009
Redundant workers at a plant in France ended on Friday their protest and dropped plans to blow up the car parts factory in favor of 12,000 euros (about $17,000) of extra compensation for each, a French radio said.
- 17:43 31/07/2009
At least 46 people were injured on Friday in an explosion at a bell factory in northern France, France Info radio reported.
- 17:37 31/07/2009
The leader of South Ossetia has demanded Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili be tried in court as a war criminal for giving orders to attack the republic's capital, Tskhinvali.
- 15:57 31/07/2009
New Zealanders began voting on Friday in a postal referendum on whether parents should have the right to physically discipline their children.
- 14:40 31/07/2009
Russia's ban on kangaroo meat imports is likely to deal a heavy blow to certain rural communities in Australia, and could lead to a dangerous rise in kangaroo populations, a farming lobby group has warned.
- 10:01 31/07/2009
Russia's energy minister Sergei Shmatko said on Friday he would pay a visit to Iraq in early August to discuss oil and energy cooperation.
- 10:01 31/07/2009
One of the Ukrainian diplomats to be expelled by Russia as part of the tit-for-tat row has been named as Igor Berezkin, a source in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was cited by the UNIAN news agency as saying on Friday.
- 09:33 31/07/2009
Today, Europe is the venue of both integration and separatist processes. Experts have calculated that in the 21st century more than 10 new states may emerge in Europe.
