On July 2, President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise (Sevmash Shipyard) production association in Severodvinsk and chaired a meeting on the future development of the Russian Navyâ™s submarine force. </p>
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 05:12 GMT
Two troops have been killed and another five wounded in a series of explosions in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a local police source said on Friday.
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 05:15 GMT
A Russian photographer who spent a month living alone in a Siberian nature reserve said on Friday he had proved there was no need to cull the park's bear population.
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 05:57 GMT
The death toll in a gas explosion at a railroad station in northern Italy has risen to 20 people after a man and a woman with severe burns died in a hospital overnight, a local health spokesman said on Friday.
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 06:09 GMT
Two days before his death Michael Jackson had been rehearsing for a giant series of comeback shows in London. The video, which was shot on 23 June, shows an energetic Jackson singing and dancing with a team of back-up performers as they run through a routine for his song 'They Don't Care About Us'.
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 06:16 GMT
A landslide caused by heavy rains has killed six people and destroyed 3,800 homes in central China, the Sina news agency reported on Friday.
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 06:20 GMT
Russia's Central Bank said Friday the country's narrowly defined money supply (M1) was 3 trillion 988 million rubles ($127.7 billion at the current exchange rate) as of June 29, down 0.47% in the week since June 22.
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 06:23 GMT
Model aircraft enthusiasts converge on the shores of the Dead Sea in Israel, for the International Jet World Masters Championship.
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 06:25 GMT
Scotland hosts the World Cup of swamp soccer as nearly 50 international teams get stuck in to compete for the top prize.
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 06:39 GMT
Two troops have been killed and another five wounded by explosions in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, while three police were injured by a roadside bomb in Daghestan, police sources said on Friday.
// Jul. 03, 2009 - 07:10 GMT