Russia lost an ally in the death of Kim Jong-il on Saturday and gained an uncertain friend in his son, Kim Jong-un.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, revered at home by a propaganda machine that turned him into a demi-god and vilified in the West as a temperamental tyrant with a nuclear arsenal, has died, North Korean state television reported Monday.
Angry MPs forced parliament to close on Monday and protesters gathered outside a Russian consulate over a Siberian trial calling for one of Hinduism's most holy books to be put on a list of banned literature.
The book is also central to the global Hare Krishna movement.
An oil-drilling rig with 67 crew members on board capsized and sank off the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin when it ran into a storm while being towed, and 51 of the crew were unaccounted for, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.
The World Trade Organization closed its biennial ministerial conference on Saturday with its chairman citing an improved atmosphere in the 153-member club but no concrete moves forward on the Doha round of world trade talks.
Gold found a bottom to bounce off Friday as investors, especially those focused on bullion, responded to the bargains emerging from this week's huge price drops.
Credit rating agency Fitch told the Eurozone on Friday it thinks a comprehensive solution to the bloc's debt crisis is beyond reach, as it put an number of the bloc's economies including Italy on watch for potential downgrades.
The killings occurred on the 20th anniversary of the Central Asian republic’s independence from the former Soviet Union.
Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's head of space operations said on Thursday.
Russian customs officials stopped a man carrying radioactive materials from boarding a plane to Iran.
The draw for the knock-out rounds of the Uefa Champions League has thrown-in some enticing fixtures, with the clashes between English and Italian sides especially intriguing.
Russia has offered the United Nations Security Council a new draft resolution on the violence in Syria after having previously vetoed resolutions proposed by the European council members.
U.S. overspending on the military has diverted resources from civilian / social investments, including public goods, weakening the U.S. economy, and, by extension weakening the nation. If it doesn’t substantially cut defense spending, the U.S.’s empire will likely share the fate of two other empires that overspent on the military -- the British Empire and the Soviet Union.
McCain himself seemed pleased with Putin’s tirade.
Of course, when a leader is pressed by domestic trouble, his thoughts turn immediately, as they do for all leaders, to distracting the population with a foreign enemy. And today, that would be us.
More than 100 Beluga whales are currently trapped in the Bering Sea, held in place by thick ice floes.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Thursday deflected opposition allegations that fraud helped his ruling party win a parliamentary election, saying the result reflected the views of the population.
After Lindsay Lohan's Playboy photos leaked on the Internet causing a stir, the names of other stars who have done similar racy shoots became trending topics. The terms Kim Kardashian Playboy and Charlize Theron Playboy are heating up in searches going head-to-head with the former child star.
Boris Gryzlov, the 60-year-old speaker of the Duma, the lower house of Parliament, has quit.
Morgan Stanley has returned $700 million to investors after its main real estate fund performed weaker than expected, reported the Wall Street Journal.
Scientists at the CERN physics research centre said on Tuesday they had found signs of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe after the Big Bang.
