South Ossetia's ruling Unity Party has garnered 44.58% of the vote in parliamentary elections according to initial figures, the former Georgian republic's top election body said on Monday.
// Jun. 01, 2009 - 05:13 GMT
Seven people have died in two separate fires in the Urals district of Sverdlovsk, the regional Investigative Committee said on its website on Monday.
// Jun. 01, 2009 - 05:14 GMT
The second round of full-format Russia-U.S. talks on a new strategic arms reduction agreement to replace the START 1 treaty, which is set to expire on December 5, 2009, will be held on June 1–3 in Geneva.
// Jun. 01, 2009 - 05:20 GMT
Russia's Dinara Safina and Nikolai Davydenko underlined their current good form with straight set wins in Paris at the weekend with unseeded Maria Sharapova continuing her tennis comeback following surgery.
// Jun. 01, 2009 - 06:05 GMT
South Ossetia's ruling Unity party has won parliamentary elections, garnering 46.38% of the vote, local election authorities said on Monday citing preliminary results after 100% of ballots had been counted.
// Jun. 01, 2009 - 07:15 GMT
A blonde parade will be held annually in the Latvian capital at the end of May, the country's Chas news website reported on Monday.
// Jun. 01, 2009 - 07:33 GMT
North Korea has transported an intercontinental ballistic missile to a new launch site, and has ordered troops on its west coast to double ammunition stocks, South Korea's Yonhap agency said on Monday.
// Jun. 01, 2009 - 08:06 GMT
A blonde parade will be held annually in the Latvian capital at the end of May, the country's Chas news website reported on Monday.Some 1,000 people participated in the first blonde parade held on Sunday under the motto: Make the world a brighter place.
// Jun. 01, 2009 - 08:23 GMT
Millvina Dean, the last known surviving passenger of the legendary Titanic ocean liner, which sank nearly a century ago, has died at the aged of 98 in a care home in Hampshire, British media said on Monday.
// Jun. 01, 2009 - 08:24 GMT