// Sep. 09, 2008 - 04:55 GMT

Two police officers were killed and another wounded after their car came under fire in the southern Russian republic of Daghestan on Tuesday, a police source said.

// Sep. 09, 2008 - 04:56 GMT

At least four people died and another four were injured on Tuesday in a blast at a petrol station in eastern China, local media said.

// Sep. 09, 2008 - 05:16 GMT

The death toll from a massive rock fall in a densely populated Cairo shanty town has risen to 51, local media said on Tuesday.

// Sep. 09, 2008 - 05:22 GMT

U.S. President George Bush has frozen a civilian nuclear cooperation deal with Russia amid the current Georgia crisis.

// Sep. 09, 2008 - 06:00 GMT

The Russian space freighter Progress M-64 reentered the atmosphere and was 'buried' early on Tuesaday at a 'spaceship cemetery' in the southern Pacific, a Mission Control spokesman said.

// Sep. 09, 2008 - 06:00 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il on the communist state's 60th anniversary, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.

// Sep. 09, 2008 - 06:34 GMT

A Tu-154 aircraft bound for Salonika in Greece with 135 passengers on board safely landed at Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg after a technical failure, an airport official said on Tuesday.

// Sep. 09, 2008 - 06:35 GMT

A new cultural center â“ a museum of retro and unique automobiles from private collections called Autoville â“ opened in Moscow on City Day. </p>

// Sep. 09, 2008 - 07:42 GMT

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili gave a cautious welcome on Tuesday to a new deal on the withdrawal of Russian forces from the South Caucasus state.

// Sep. 09, 2008 - 07:48 GMT