RUSSIA

What do Vladimir Putin, a real Don, and Herman Cain, a real Godfather Pizza Don, have in common? The connection is psychological, maybe even Dostoevskian. But it isn't about depression, unless it's ours, the voting public. It's about delusion.

Vladimir Putin's ruling party suffered a serious blow in a parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed, as voters signalled growing unease with his domination of Russian politics before a planned return to the presidency next year.

The U.N.'s climate chief said that she believes countries can snap the deadlock that has lasted for years and sign up to fresh and binding commitments to cut greenhouse gases.

The head of an independent Russian election watchdog was detained for 12 hours at a Moscow airport Saturday as part of attempts to stop it monitoring Sunday's vote for a new parliament, the group's lawyer said.

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The Euro 2012 draw took place Germany, Netherlands and Portugal all tied together in the so-called 'Group of Death' while reigning champions Spain faces a Italy in Group C.

A group of students at Georgetown University started this as a homework project, but after analyzing China's huge network of tunnels for storing missiles for as long as three years under their professor, a former top Pentagon official, they made the conclusion that China's nuclear arsenal may be many times larger than previously estimated.

The final preparations are underway at the eight lucky venues, across Poland and Ukraine, to host the 2012 UEFA European Championships, which will kick off on June 8 next year.

Russia's MMC Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest palladium producer, will sharply cut sales from its stockpile in the next two years before ending them altogether in 2014, a company executive said Thursday.

In a rare peaceful transition of presidential power, Kyrgyzstan inaugurated a new president Thursday, marking the first time the former Soviet Central Asian nation chose a successor through votes at the ballot box, not the streets.

Tatyana Limanova, the Russian broadcast news reporter who was fired for a rude hand gesture supposedly aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama, while on air, has accused her critics of lacking a sense of humor and that she was fired only when the video went viral online.

Severstal, Russia's biggest steelmaker, is set to spin off its Nord Gold unit and could list the standalone business in London, less than a year after being forced to pull a planned $1.5 billion public offering.

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India's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than two years, according to the recent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers which shows the country's economy rose 6.9 percent in the July-September quarter.

Drogba rejected to sign the latest contract offer from Chelsea.

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) banned Vityaz Chekhov's Canadian forward Jeremy Yablonski for the rest of the season on Tuesday, effectively ending his playing career in Russia.

The two countries have already significantly downgraded diplomatic and financial ties.

Svetlana had fallen in love with Brajesh Singh, an Indian Communist in Moscow. She eventually became his common-law wife in 1964

French film and stage actor Alain Delon sold a thousand bottles of his wine collection on Saturday with a big Chinese buyer pushing the auction results well above pre-sale estimates.

Lana Peters, only daughter and last surviving child of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, died last week of colon cancer at the age of 85.