Former Ukrainian foreign minister Konstantin Grishenko has been appointed ambassador to Russia, the Kommersant business daily quoted the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as saying.
// Jun. 03, 2008 - 05:06 GMT
The U.S. Discovery space shuttle docked with the International Space Station on Monday afternoon, delivering a bus-sized Japanese research lab that will be linked to the orbital station on Tuesday.
// Jun. 03, 2008 - 05:17 GMT
China is likely to experience earthquakes measuring 7 or higher on the Richter scale over the next 15 years, a national newspaper said on Tuesday, citing Chinese experts.
// Jun. 03, 2008 - 05:33 GMT
Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin will join the second day of negotiations with Saudi Arabia on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization on Tuesday.
// Jun. 03, 2008 - 05:50 GMT
Iran will start work this year to build a pipeline as part of the Western-backed Nabucco project designed to pump gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe bypassing Russia, an Iranian oil official said.
// Jun. 03, 2008 - 06:03 GMT
Ford has closed a $2.3 billion deal to sell its Jaguar and Land Rover luxury brands to Tata Motors, India's largest automotive company, the U.S. company said on Tuesday.
// Jun. 03, 2008 - 07:07 GMT
The Kazakh parliament has ratified an agreement on establishing a customs union within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec), a spokesman for the upper house of parliament said on Tuesday.
// Jun. 03, 2008 - 07:25 GMT