- 23:27 04/09/2009
The number of children hospitalized with food poisoning in Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea has risen to 144, local health authorities said on Friday.
- 22:14 04/09/2009
Finance ministers comprising the BRIC union - Brazil, Russia, India and China - urged the international community on Friday not to curb anti-crisis strategies amid the unstable global economic situation.
- 20:32 04/09/2009
A Georgian journalist and his family, who earlier criticized Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's political regime, have requested political asylum in South Ossetia, the foreign minister said on Friday.
- 19:44 04/09/2009
More than 3,200 people have died from swine flu worldwide, with the total number of officially confirmed cases reaching 271,000, Russia's consumer watchdog said on Friday citing a World Health Organization report.
- 19:04 04/09/2009
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church said Friday he plans to visit churches in the Middle East within the next two years.
- 17:07 04/09/2009
Chinese police used tear gas to disperse protests that began on Thursday in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
- 17:03 04/09/2009
Gazprom confirmed on Friday that Ukraine had paid for Russian natural gas deliveries to the country for August.
- 16:49 04/09/2009
A senior legislator said on Friday that Russia may be forced to "take a break" from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe if a Georgian proposal to deprive Moscow of its voting rights goes ahead.
- 14:57 04/09/2009
A crew of Indian submariners will take part in sea trials of a Russian nuclear submarine in mid-September.
- 14:55 04/09/2009
Police have begun an investigation into a series of explosions that killed at least seven people overnight at an ammunition factory in central Serbia.
- 14:51 04/09/2009
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is set to make another attempt to return to his homeland "in the next few days"
- 13:51 04/09/2009
More than 25.000 people were left homeless after an earthquake which shook the southern part of Indonesia's West Java earlier this week.
- 12:59 04/09/2009
At least eight people have committed suicide in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state after the death of Chief Minister Yedugoori Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash.
- 12:16 04/09/2009
The pop singer Michael Jackson, who died in June at the age of 50, has been buried in the Forest Lawn cemetery in the Los Angeles suburb.
- 11:23 04/09/2009
Two astronauts completed on Friday an almost seven-hour spacewalk to secure a new fully loaded tank of space station coolant to the International Space Station (ISS).
- 11:10 04/09/2009
Up to 90 people died in north Afghanistan when two fuel tankers exploded after they were hit by a NATO airstrike,the governor of the Kunduz province said on Friday.
- 10:01 04/09/2009
Scores of people were killed in north Afghanistan when a fuel tanker exploded after it was hit by what is believed to have been a NATO airstrike, regional media said.
- 09:14 04/09/2009
North Korea has begun the final stage of uranium enrichment, a method of producing nuclear weapons.
- 07:21 04/09/2009
Latvian human rights ombudsman Roman Apsitis appealed to the country's president with a request to broaden rights for 'non-citizens' in Latvia
