- 21:39 04/10/2009
Greece's Socialist opposition party PASOK is leading in Sunday's parliamentary election in the Mediterranean country with 43.1% of the vote, the Interior Ministry said.
- 21:07 04/10/2009
Greece's Socialist opposition party PASOK is leading in Sunday's parliamentary election in the Mediterranean country with 41-44% of the vote and will be able to form a one-party government, exit polls showed.
- 16:37 04/10/2009
The ex-head of Russia's now defunct state electricity monopoly said on Sunday that the findings by the industrial safety watchdog fully reflected technical causes of a recent disaster at the country's largest hydropower plant.
- 15:27 04/10/2009
Eight U.S. soldiers were killed in an attack by the radical Islamic Taliban group in eastern Afghanistan, the press office of the NATO-led coalition forces said on Sunday.
- 14:37 04/10/2009
Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will inspect Iran's new uranium facility in the second half of October, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Sunday.
- 13:52 04/10/2009
A Greek sailor has died after two freight ships collided in the Aegean Sea and one of the vessels sank, the Greek Merchant Marine Ministry said on Sunday.
- 13:19 04/10/2009
A policeman was killed in an attack by unidentified assailants in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya, the republic's interior ministry said on Sunday.
- 12:18 04/10/2009
The ratification of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, whose chances were boosted by the results of a referendum in Ireland, will contribute to developing Russia-EU relations, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
- 11:05 04/10/2009
The international airport in Brazil's largest city, Rio de Janeiro, which won the bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, will be privatized and modernized to prepare for the Olympics, the authorities said.
- 09:45 04/10/2009
A former Japanese finance minister who was forced to step down after appearing to be drunk at a G7 news conference in February was found dead in his home on Sunday, police said.
- 09:19 04/10/2009
Russia could borrow from $2 billion to $4 billion from the World Bank next year to ease the effects of the economic crisis, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Sunday.
- 07:48 04/10/2009
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in North Korea on a three-day official visit on Sunday.
- 07:31 04/10/2009
A confidential report by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that Iran had had enough information to produce a nuclear bomb.
- 06:55 04/10/2009
Early parliamentary elections will be held in Greece on Sunday.
- 05:35 04/10/2009
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the decision of the Russian government to relocate Olympic facilities in Sochi from an environmentally protected area.
- 04:19 04/10/2009
Rescue teams from 17 countries, including Russia, have arrived at the Indonesian island of Sumatra to help deal with the aftermath of Wednesday's quake.
- 03:00 04/10/2009
Over 67% of voters in Ireland have cast their ballot in favor of the Lisbon Treaty setting out rules for decision-making in the European Union.
- 01:55 04/10/2009
Russian sailors, who have been stranded in Panama since early April, are unable to come ashore "for financial reasons".
- 00:29 04/10/2009
