- 21:48 11/12/2009
A contract to deliver armaments to Iraq is the largest one since Ukraine became independent after the fall of the Soviet Union, a deputy head of the state's arms trader Ukrspetsexport said Friday.
- 20:47 11/12/2009
Judicial authorities have evicted world famous Brazilian football striker Romario from his luxurious $4.7-million apartment after it was sold for tax debts, a court spokesman said on Friday.
- 20:21 11/12/2009
Some 800 people died from the À/H1N1 virus in the first week of December, bringing the death toll to 9,596, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Friday.
- 17:35 11/12/2009
North Korea will not agree to resume six-party talks on its nuclear program until the United States agrees to a peace treaty, a pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan said Friday.
- 17:31 11/12/2009
Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya should leave the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa before his term expires on January 27, Brazil's Globonews TV channel said on Friday.
- 17:04 11/12/2009
Poland and the United States signed Friday a status of forces agreement (SOFA) laying out the conditions for the deployment of U.S. troops on Polish soil.
- 16:28 11/12/2009
Over eight million people in Chile will vote in Sunday's presidential and parliamentary elections.
- 15:39 11/12/2009
Russia currently has no plans to sell its greenhouse gas emission quotas, the Kremlin climate change adviser told reporters on Friday.
- 15:35 11/12/2009
A pear-shaped diamond went under hammer for more than $5.4 million at Christie's in New York, the famous auction house said on its website on Friday.
- 14:46 11/12/2009
The body of the former Greek Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos was stolen from his grave on Friday, national television reported.
- 12:46 11/12/2009
Washington's point man on the North Korean nuclear issue will visit Moscow next week for talks with Russian diplomats, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
- 11:53 11/12/2009
Russia and the United States will continue talks on a new nuclear arms reduction deal to replace the expired START 1 treaty in Geneva next week, a Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.
- 11:33 11/12/2009
All 19 miners underground at the time of a gas explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey were killed, national media reported on Friday, citing Turkish Labor Minister Omer Dincer.
- 10:58 11/12/2009
Countries taking part in a UN climate change conference in Denmark are looking to a meeting of leaders later this month to advance a solution to cuts in carbon emissions, a senior Russian delegate said.
- 09:24 11/12/2009
At least six miners have died and another 13 are still trapped under the debris after a gas explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey, national media reported on Friday.
- 09:13 11/12/2009
North Korea said after a visit to Pyongyang by U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy that six-party talks on its nuclear program should restart.
- 08:42 11/12/2009
A letter addressed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to the Communist leader of the Mongolian People's Republic has been put up for auction at Sotheby's, the auction house said on its website.
- 06:38 11/12/2009
Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko will discuss with his Bulgarian colleagues the implementation of Russian-Bulgarian joint energy projects during his visit to Sophia on Friday, the ministry's press service said.
- 05:48 11/12/2009
Brazil will spend some 900 million reals ($530 million) to assure security during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, the country's justice minister has said.
