Russia's Dima Bilan won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, beating 24 contestants to claim his country's first win in the event with his heartfelt ballad “Believe.”

// May. 25, 2008 - 08:10 GMT

A sixth Russian Emergencies Ministry plane carrying 30 tons of humanitarian aid for quake-stricken southwest China took off on Sunday from an airfield near Moscow, a ministry spokesman said.

// May. 25, 2008 - 09:37 GMT

Iran will continue transparent cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its controversial nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Sunday.

// May. 25, 2008 - 10:39 GMT

Two people were killed after a light plane crashed in the Moscow Region, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday.

// May. 25, 2008 - 10:49 GMT

Residents of Ukraine's capital are voting in a poll on Sunday to elect a mayor and city council, with 70 candidates running for the mayor's post.

// May. 25, 2008 - 11:13 GMT

Lebanon's parliament is expected to elect a new president on Sunday to end a political crisis that has threatened a new civil war in the country.

// May. 25, 2008 - 12:15 GMT

// May. 25, 2008 - 12:49 GMT

A senior police officer was killed in the Republic of Daghestan in Russia's restive North Caucasus region, a police source said on Sunday.

// May. 25, 2008 - 13:46 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved the composition of the Security Council of Russia, the Kremlin press office said on Sunday. The Security Council will be chaired by Medvedev.

// May. 25, 2008 - 14:49 GMT

Lebanon's parliament elected army commander General Michel Suleiman as the country's president on Sunday. All of Lebanon's warring political leaders earlier agreed to vote for Suleiman under a deal brokered in Qatar on Wednesday to end a 19-month political crisis, which led to the worst violence the country has seen since 1990.

// May. 25, 2008 - 14:57 GMT