Three militants and a special unit officer were killed in an operation in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Daghestan on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 04:55 GMT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in South Ossetia on Monday on his first visit to the former Georgian republic, recognized as independent by Russia last August.

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 04:59 GMT

Russia has successfully test-launched a Sineva sea-based ballistic missile, a source in the Defense Ministry confirmed on Tuesday.

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 05:01 GMT

The Transshelf semi-submersible open dock vessel has delivered two decommissioned Victor III class nuclear submarines from a Russian Pacific Fleet base in Kamchatka to the Zvezda shipyard in the town of Bolshoi Kamen in Russiaâ™s Far East for scrapping. </p>

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 05:09 GMT

The launch of space shuttle Endeavour has been put back once again until Wednesday due to bad weather around the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, NASA said.

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 05:18 GMT

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a coup in late June, has said he will consider talks with interim leaders a “failure” unless he is reinstated in the next round of negotiations.

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 05:26 GMT

A 105-day experiment to simulate a flight to Mars will be concluded on Tuesday at the Institute of Medical and Biological Studies in Moscow.

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 05:52 GMT

Freestyle motocross star Robbie Maddison performs spectacular backflip over an open Tower Bridge.

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 05:54 GMT

Japanese scientists have released a report that says people who were born before the 1918 flu pandemic have immunity to swine flu.

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 05:54 GMT

At least seven people died and another 15 went missing after a flash flood swept a passenger bus off a bridge in east India, the Times of India said on Tuesday.

// Jul. 14, 2009 - 06:02 GMT