- 22:00 12/08/2009
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- 18:38 12/08/2009
An Israeli town has offered a $1 million reward to anyone who can prove the existence of a mermaid said to live in nearby coastal waters, the Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday.
- 18:24 12/08/2009
The death toll of Typhoon Morakot has risen to 67 people in Taiwan as of Wednesday, with 45 injured and 61 missing, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
- 16:49 12/08/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Abkhazia on Wednesday for a one-day working visit, confirming Moscow's pledges of financial aid to the former Georgian republic.
- 16:32 12/08/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's claims that Kiev was responsible for deteriorating relations with Moscow were aimed at President Yushchenko, not the entire country, a senior Kremlin official said on Wednesday.
- 16:27 12/08/2009
Narcotic officers in Siberia have made a massive seizure of 200 kg (440 lbs) of drugs worth $12 million, cutting off a major supply route for the trafficking of raw opium from Central Asia to Russia, a senior drug police official said on Wednesday.
- 14:59 12/08/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Abkhazia on Wednesday for a one-day working visit.
- 14:14 12/08/2009
Russia's leading combat aircraft manufacturers Sukhoi and MiG will exhibit their most advanced aircraft, the Su-35 Flanker and the MiG-35 Fulcrum-F multirole fighters at the MAKS-2009 air show in Russia.
- 14:13 12/08/2009
Kiev said on Wednesday that claims by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that Ukraine was responsible for deteriorating relations were aimed at the entire country, rather than President Yushchenko.
- 13:44 12/08/2009
The official dollar rate set by the Russian Central Bank for August 13 is 32.6926 rubles, up 94 kopeks, the Central Bank said on Wednesday.
- 13:21 12/08/2009
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered measures to track a Finnish-owned cargo ship crewed by Russians, which was last sited off Portugal's Atlantic coast on August 1 and may have been hijacked, the Kremlin said.
- 12:51 12/08/2009
Russia will allocate 15-16 billion rubles (over $465 mln) in 2010 to boost security along Abkhazian borders, the Russian prime minister said on Wednesday.
- 12:00 12/08/2009
Russia's budget deficit totaled an estimated 923.82 billion rubles ($28.9 billion) or 4.3% of the country's GDP in January-July 2009, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.
- 11:46 12/08/2009
A Russian astronomer said that over 100 meteor particles per hour are expected to light the night sky at the height of the annual Perseid meteor shower on August 12.
- 11:18 12/08/2009
A police chief and two police officers were killed when Taliban militants attacked a district police headquarters in the country's northern Kunduz Province, an afghan police spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 11:05 12/08/2009
Moscow's electric producer Mosenergo said on Wednesday its net profit calculated to Russian Accounting Standards grew 350%, year-on-year, in January-June 2009 to 6.38 billion rubles ($198 million).
