- 23:10 17/10/2009
Around a million people are estimated to have participated in an anti-abortion rally in Madrid on Saturday, Spanish media said.
- 22:33 17/10/2009
Brazilian drug dealers shot dead the pilot of a police helicopter in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, causing it to crash to the ground and explode.
- 21:54 17/10/2009
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit on Saturday, the Tolo TV station said.
- 21:22 17/10/2009
U.S. authorities on Saturday extradited a Russian national wanted at home on charges of assault with intent to rob, Russia's Prosecutor General's Office said.
- 19:53 17/10/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Belgrade on October 20 will help deepen Russian-Serbian ties, Serbia's president has said, as quoted by national media.
- 18:27 17/10/2009
Three U.S. soldiers have died in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) spokesperson said on Saturday.
- 16:53 17/10/2009
Pakistan forces began on Saturday an offensive against Taliban militants in the country's South Waziristan area, regional media said.
- 14:50 17/10/2009
President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed Russia's closer cooperation with an alliance of Latin American and Caribbean countries, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday.
- 12:10 17/10/2009
The Russian tourists thought to be missing in China have never been lost and will fly back home on Tuesday, a senior official at the Russian Tourism Federation said on Saturday.
- 11:26 17/10/2009
The U.S. extradited on Saturday a Russian citizen facing charges of robbery, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said on its website.
- 10:24 17/10/2009
A joint border committee has signed a deal demarcating the border between Kosovo and Macedonia, the Kosovar media said on Saturday.
- 09:25 17/10/2009
Talks on a post-coup crisis in Honduras have reached deadlock with the de facto Honduran president refusing to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya, the former Honduran foreign minister has said.
- 07:53 17/10/2009
At least 32 people were killed and 10 injured in an explosion following a fire at a wholesale firecracker shop in southern India
- 07:19 17/10/2009
A death toll from a recent suicide bombing in a Sunni Mosque in northern Iraq rose to 14 with over 90 people injured
- 06:14 17/10/2009
The U.S. Department of State has granted a senior North Korean government official and his delegation a permission to attend two international conferences in the United States.
- 05:19 17/10/2009
No suspects in a recent terrorist attack in the center of Moldova's capital have been apprehended so far
- 04:17 17/10/2009
Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov starts on Saturday a tree-day Middle East tour, which will take him to Syria and Lebanon.
- 03:17 17/10/2009
Both rival Palestinian factions have hailed the UN endorsement of a report of an international investigation mission, which holds both Israel and Palestinian militants responsible for war crimes in Gaza.
- 02:21 17/10/2009
Police in Venezuela have seized a total of 500 kg of marijuana, which was illegally brought into country from the neighboring Colombia
