- 20:53 25/12/2009
Ukraine denied on Friday allegations that a cargo plane loaded with illegal weaponry from North Korea was charted by a Ukrainian company.
- 18:46 25/12/2009
Georgian airline Airzena announced on Friday it has canceled its proposed charter flights to Moscow on December 26-27.
- 18:39 25/12/2009
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has congratulated Pope Benedict XVI and all those who celebrate Christmas on December 25 in line with the Gregorian calendar.
- 17:55 25/12/2009
Thai police have arrested 14 suspects from its wanted list after sending them fake 'letters of happiness' according to which they allegedly won lotteries, local television said on Friday.
- 16:34 25/12/2009
Pope Benedict XVI urged people worldwide on Friday to abandon violence and coexist peacefully in his Christmas address on Friday.
- 16:00 25/12/2009
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below the month-by-month review of 2009 continues, with June.
- 14:37 25/12/2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for an end of Christmas "consumption insanity" and replace presents for children with stories about national independence hero Simon Bolivar, local media reported.
- 14:14 25/12/2009
A 25-year-old woman from Switzerland, who rushed at Pope Benedict XVI and knocked him down at St. Peter's Basilica during the Christmas Eve service, has been hospitalized, the head of the Vatican Press Office said on Friday.
- 13:12 25/12/2009
A new U.S.-Russian strategic arms reduction treaty should be signed in the very near future, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 12:42 25/12/2009
Pope Benedict XVI is feeling well after being knocked down at St. Peter's Basilica during the Christmas Eve service, the head of the Vatican Press Office said on Friday.
- 12:20 25/12/2009
The implementation of a project to develop a vast gas field in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea is being delayed further, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said Friday.
- 11:32 25/12/2009
The Russian coast guard has detained a Cambodian-flagged vessel with 25 metric tons of live crab on board in the Sea of Okhotsk, a spokesman for the regional Coast Guard said on Friday.
- 09:12 25/12/2009
Japan's giant carmaker, Toyota Motor Corp., is recalling about 43,000 of its cars produced at company's plants in China due to engine defects.
- 07:18 25/12/2009
Brazilian rescuers have recovered the bodies of 14 people, who were killed in a ship accident in the Amazon River
- 06:48 25/12/2009
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has pardoned two Egyptian doctors, sentenced last year to lengthy prison terms and 1,500 lashes for prescribing narcotic painkillers
- 04:42 25/12/2009
Belarus will create a new concept of national security in 2010, the presidential press service has said.
- 03:31 25/12/2009
A total of 41 people were killed and 26 injured when a bus rolled over the edge of a cliff in Peru
- 02:53 25/12/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama failed to meet the expectations of the global community, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said in an interview with U.K. Channel 4.
- 01:35 25/12/2009
Pope Benedict XVI was knocked to the floor while walking to the altar of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican to begin the traditional Christmas Eve service.
