* Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said that with the bodies of another five miners found at a goldmine in southern Siberia hit by fire on Thursday, the death toll there had risen to 21
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 06:04 GMT
NOVOSIBIRSK, September 10 (RIA Novosti) – The bodies of the last four miners were found Sunday in a gold mine in southern Siberia bringing the death toll after a major fire to 25, the local emergency situations ministry said.
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 06:44 GMT
WASHINGTON D.C., September 10 (RIA Novosti) – Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova won her first U.S. Open title Saturday night after beating second seed Justin Henin-Hardenne 6–4, 6–4.
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 07:10 GMT
Better on the biggest points all night, the third-seeded Sharapova beat No. 2 Justine Henin-Hardenne 6–4, 6–4 in the U.S. Open final Saturday to add a follow-up championship to her breakthrough title at Wimbledon in 2004.
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 07:45 GMT
MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) – The international community can fight terrorism effectively only by consolidating its efforts, the speaker of the lower house of Russia's parliament said Sunday.
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 07:47 GMT
North Korea is having a new medicine clinically-tested on two subjects in Russia for leader Kim Jong-Il who is suffering from diabetes and hearth disease, according to a news report.
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 07:55 GMT
The final death toll from a fire at a remote Russian gold mine reached 25 as rescuers found the bodies of four men, the last of the miners trapped deep underground three days earlier.
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 08:07 GMT
Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attack against the United States, Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov urges the world community to consolidate efforts in the fight against terrorism.
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 08:19 GMT
Honorary president and founder of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Arkady Volsky died Saturday after a long illness at the age of 74, the RSPP
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 08:31 GMT
MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II awarded the economics minister with a Russian Orthodox Church order, the minister's aide said over the phone Sunday.
// Sep. 10, 2006 - 08:55 GMT