- 14:36 02/09/2009
At least 23 people, including a deputy intelligence head, were killed and some 35 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan's eastern Laghman province on Wednesday, a local police source told RIA Novosti.
- 13:46 02/09/2009
Abkhazia's president has ordered that force be used against Georgian vessels violating the former Georgian republic's maritime border.
- 12:03 02/09/2009
Gazprom is planning to boost its offshore gas reserves by 5.6 trillion cubic meters to 10 trillion cubic meters by 2020.
- 11:41 02/09/2009
The Czech Constitutional Court has postponed the country's early parliamentary polls scheduled for October 9-10 after a complaint by a member of parliament.
- 11:26 02/09/2009
China will display five new types of domestically produced missiles at a National Day military parade on October 1, local media said on Wednesday citing military sources.
- 10:29 02/09/2009
Taro Aso's Liberal Democratic Party is ready to delegate power to the center-left Democratic Party of Japan led by Yukio Hatoyama that won elections with a landslide victory, a government spokesperson said.
- 09:45 02/09/2009
Two U.S. astronauts from the current STS-128 space mission to the International Space Station (ISS) have successfully completed their first spacewalk removing a heavy ammonia tank from the cooling system.
- 07:47 02/09/2009
Two U.S. journalists, detained by North Korea in March and released in early August, have admitted entering the North Korean territory, but said border guards apprehended them on the Chinese soil.
- 06:31 02/09/2009
Presidential elections in Honduras are "the only solution" to the current political crisis, the country's interim leader Roberto Micheletti said in a televised address on Wednesday, urging the nation to vote.
- 02:42 02/09/2009
The White House said in a statement on Wednesday that last week's assassination attempt on Saudi Arabia's anti-terrorism chief was a "cowardly attack."
- 01:34 02/09/2009
Indian President Pratibha Patil will pay a state visit to Russia on September 2-6, India's foreign ministry said.
- 00:03 02/09/2009
