Four people were killed and another injured in a road accident involving a motorcycle in southern Moscow, a traffic police spokesman said on Saturday.

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 08:08 GMT

Russian troops detained two cars carrying ammunition via a humanitarian channel into the Georgian breakaway republic of South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official said Saturday.

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 09:40 GMT

Russia supports Abkhazia and South Ossetia in their decision against the presence of Georgian peacekeepers on their territories, a senior Russian military official said on Saturday.

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 10:29 GMT

Two Russian pilots downed last week during the conflict in South Ossetia are alive, but wounded and in a Georgian hospital, a Russian General Staff spokesman said on Saturday.

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 10:30 GMT

Russia's Dinara Safina and Yelena Dementyeva will meet on August 17 in the final of women's tennis event of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 11:00 GMT

Iran will launch its first satellite in the nearest few days, the country's president said on Saturday.

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 11:11 GMT

Ukraine may integrate its early warning missile system with Europe or propose other countries use its missile defense capabilities, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Earlier in the year Russia and Ukraine had withdrawn from an 

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 12:05 GMT

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 12:15 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed on Saturday a French-brokered plan on resolving conflicts in Georgia, aggravated following Tbilisi's assault on its breakaway South Ossetia on August 8.

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 13:00 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed on Saturday a French-brokered plan on resolving conflicts in Georgia, aggravated following Tbilisi's assault on its breakaway South Ossetia on August 8.

// Aug. 16, 2008 - 13:47 GMT