- 22:13 10/08/2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said at a South American summit in Quito on Monday that the presence of U.S. servicemen in Colombia could provoke a war.
- 22:10 10/08/2009
Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai instructed the country's police force on Monday to prevent a march through Budapest by neo-Nazis, the Index website said.
- 21:15 10/08/2009
A Russian maritime expert said on Monday that "something extraordinary" must have happened to a cargo ship that went missing off Portugal's Atlantic coast.
- 19:49 10/08/2009
Hamas hopes to resolve all its disputes with Fatah before inter-Palestinian talks scheduled for August 25, Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar said in Cairo.
- 19:25 10/08/2009
Ten people, including two police officers, were killed on Monday as Taliban militants and security forces clashed near the Afghan capital of Kabul, a spokesman for the governor of the Logar Province said.
- 17:38 10/08/2009
Michael Jackson has been buried in the Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles Hollywood Hills, British TV channel Sky News reported on Monday, quoting the Jacksons' family lawyer.
- 17:38 10/08/2009
Polish prosecutors have begun investigations into the disappearance of 30,000 carrier pigeons during a long-distance race, Poland's TVN24 has reported.
- 17:06 10/08/2009
More than 500,000 people are expected to visit the MAKS-2009 air show outside Moscow on August 18-23, the organizers said on Monday.
- 16:25 10/08/2009
Police in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada have arrested a local waitress on charges of polygamy, the Almasry Alyoum newspaper reported on Monday.
- 16:10 10/08/2009
Russia's president said on Monday he had submitted a bill to parliament on the procedure for sending troops to fight outside the country's borders.
- 16:03 10/08/2009
A typhoon and a tropical storm have killed at least 34 people and caused massive damage across the Pacific region, Asian media reported on Monday.
- 15:48 10/08/2009
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Monday that by increasing its military presence in Colombia the United States was seeking to establish control over the region's economic resources.
- 14:40 10/08/2009
North Korea said on Monday it will closely watch the international reaction on South Korea's planned launch of a carrier rocket with a satellite on board following criticism of a similar launch conducted by Pyongyang.
- 13:47 10/08/2009
Israel's air force destroyed on Monday a Palestinian smugglers' tunnel connecting Egypt and the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces' press service said on Monday.
- 13:11 10/08/2009
Ford Russia has resumed production at its Vsevolozhsk plant near St. Petersburg after three weeks of scheduled vacations, a company spokeswoman said on Monday.
- 11:15 10/08/2009
The number of officially registered unemployed people in Russia declined by another 6,000 in the first week of August and stood at 2,140,000, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said on Monday.
- 10:47 10/08/2009
Russia's Central Bank announced on Monday it was cutting its key lending rate for the fifth time this year, by 0.25 percentage points to 10.75% per annum, following a slowdown in consumer price growth
- 10:17 10/08/2009
At least 12 people have died in torrential rains and floods in western Japan which was hit by typhoon Etau, the Kyodo News agency said on Monday citing local police.
- 10:08 10/08/2009
Two truck bombings left at least 25 people dead in north Iraq's Mosul, and another 16 people were killed by two car bombs in Baghdad on Monday, international media reported.
