Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev had an informal dinner at the Russian presidential residence at Gorki on Monday evening, where they were joined by first ladies Svetlana Medvedeva and Michelle Obama.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 04:46 GMT

Around 1,000 people took to the streets on Tuesday demanding the release of relatives arrested during inter-ethnic riots in China's Muslim Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinhua said.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 05:25 GMT

Nigerian gunmen boarded a tanker and took six crewmembers, including two Russians and a Ukrainian, hostage, the Sovfracht Maritime Bulletin confirmed on Tuesday.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 05:41 GMT

The Obamas have dinner with the Medvedevs at their Gorki residence.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 05:43 GMT

Chinese security forces are reported to be back in control of the country's restive western region of Xinjiang after one of the deadliest outbreaks of ethnic violence left scores dead.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 05:46 GMT

U.S. President Barack Obama began his first meeting with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday morning at the Russian prime minister's country residence outside Moscow.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 06:15 GMT

The UN Security Council has condemned a series of North Korean missile launches carried out over the weekend in defiance of UN resolutions.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 06:19 GMT

A top forensic expert at Ingushetia's Interior Ministry received head injuries when his vehicle was attacked Tuesday morning, an investigator in the Russian southern republic said.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 06:34 GMT

Russia's upper house of parliament has called Japan's renewed claims on the Kuril islands an “insult to the Russian people,” and called for the visa-free travel regime between the islands and Japan to be ended.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 07:36 GMT

Tokyo has overtaken Moscow to become the world's most expensive city for expatriates, according to a survey by an HR and financial consultancy.

// Jul. 07, 2009 - 07:44 GMT