- 20:51 27/12/2009
French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, injured during the Christmas Mass, has undergone surgery in the Gemelli hospital in Rome and is in good condition, hospital officials said Sunday.
- 19:38 27/12/2009
Poles would invite President Lech Kaczynski to their Christmas table, according to a poll conducted by Polish television.
- 18:40 27/12/2009
Uzbek President Islam Karimov said Sunday's parliamentary election in the country will be transparent.
- 17:37 27/12/2009
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday had lunch with the poor and homeless at a soup kitchen in downtown Rome.
- 16:00 27/12/2009
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below the month-by-month review of 2009 continues, with August
- 15:50 27/12/2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will attend the ceremony of launching the East-Siberia - Pacific Ocean oil pipeline during his visit to the region on December 28-29, the government press office said on Sunday.
- 15:14 27/12/2009
South Korea has signed a $20 billion agreement with the United Arab Emirates on building four nuclear power plants in the oil-rich Middle East country, the news agency Yonhap reported on Sunday.
- 14:52 27/12/2009
Iranian security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in the capital, killing at least three people, opposition websites said.
- 13:06 27/12/2009
Uzbekistan's top election body declared Sunday's parliamentary elections in the ex-Soviet republic valid, with more than 50% of registered voters casting their ballots.
- 12:54 27/12/2009
The Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow's Alexander Garden to honor the dead of the Great Patriotic War was temporarily relocated on Sunday due to repairs.
- 11:51 27/12/2009
Saturday's explosion in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killed at least three people and another six were wounded, the Lebanese daily An-Nahar reported on Sunday.
- 11:04 27/12/2009
Two unidentified persons stole 1.8 million rubles ($60,000) from an automatic teller machine at a customs academy in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, local police said on Sunday.
- 09:13 27/12/2009
Uzbekistan is voting on Sunday in elections to the lower house of parliament, with candidates contesting 150 seats in the ex-Soviet republic's legislature.
- 07:50 27/12/2009
Five people, including a 9-year-old child, have died in a road crash in western Kazakhstan
- 04:33 27/12/2009
Twenty-five people are missing after an inter-island ferry sank off the Philippine coast shortly before midnight on Saturday
- 03:22 27/12/2009
Iranian riot police have clashed with thousands of opposition supporters in Tehran during a Shiite religious ceremony
- 02:30 27/12/2009
A 23-year-old Nigerian man has been charged with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines aircraft on Christmas Day
- 01:39 27/12/2009
Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon has been re-elected leader of the ruling People's Democratic Party
- 00:50 27/12/2009
An explosion on Saturday in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, targeted a Hamas leader and killed at least one person
