South Korea's government is considering measures to be taken if North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's health continues to deteriorate, Seoul's Yonhap news agency said on Wednesday.
// Sep. 10, 2008 - 05:35 GMT
Russia is due to launch a Progress M-65 spacecraft on board a Soyuz-U rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday to deliver supplies to the ISS, a Russian space agency spokesman said.
// Sep. 10, 2008 - 06:02 GMT
Russia circulated a draft UN Security Council calling resolution for an embargo on arms sales to Georgia, after the United States announced measures to rebuild the South Caucasus country's military.
// Sep. 10, 2008 - 06:35 GMT
The missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, will return to its base in Sevastopol later on Wednesday following its peacekeeping mission near Abkhazia, a fleet source said.
// Sep. 10, 2008 - 06:51 GMT
The U.S. trade secretary has cancelled a visit to Nicaragua citing a change in “circumstances” just days after the Central American country recognized Georgia's breakaway regions, the U.S. envoy told local media.
// Sep. 10, 2008 - 07:00 GMT
Hurricane Ike moved towards the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after leaving at least four dead in Cuba and forcing 1.3 million people from their homes, local meteorologists said.
// Sep. 10, 2008 - 07:06 GMT
Russia wants to work more closely with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), a deputy prime minister said ahead of an OPEC session on Wednesday.
// Sep. 10, 2008 - 07:25 GMT
A top North Korean official denied on Wednesday reports that the country's leader, Kim Jong-il, has fallen gravely ill, and said the rumors are part of a conspiracy to weaken the country's leadership.
// Sep. 10, 2008 - 08:16 GMT