The U.S. senate confirmed the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Hispanic and only the third woman to be appointed to the country's highest court.
// Aug. 07, 2009 - 05:40 GMT
NATO and US officials say that foreign forces were not involved in the deaths of four civilians in a village on the outskirts of Kandahar City, Afghanistan.
// Aug. 07, 2009 - 05:58 GMT
An effigy of Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister, is place in medieval stocks and pelted with fruit and eggs after being voted Britain's top villian by visitors to a London tourist attraction.
// Aug. 07, 2009 - 06:19 GMT
Russia's top investigation committee announced on Friday that the number of Russian service personnel killed during the brief military conflict with Georgia in August last year now stands at 67.
// Aug. 07, 2009 - 06:24 GMT
One person was killed and 30 people injured when a bus collided with a truck in southern Russia's Krasnodar Territory early Friday morning, the local emergencies ministry said.
// Aug. 07, 2009 - 06:25 GMT
The European Union can not turn its back on direct dialogue with the former Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia's envoy to the EU said.
// Aug. 07, 2009 - 07:11 GMT
Floods triggered by a new wave of heavy rains have hit China's Chongqing and Jiangxi provinces, killing at least ten people, China's state media reported on Thursday.
// Aug. 07, 2009 - 07:15 GMT
Japanese based scientists have developed new technology to steer a wheelchair by detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.
// Aug. 07, 2009 - 07:22 GMT
Prized San Diego Zoo panda Bai Yun gave birth on Wednesday to her fifth cub after a 130-day pregnancy that zookeepers said ended with an apparently pleasant labour. The cub born to 17-year-old Bai Yun (White Cloud) became just the 14th panda in the United States, five of which are in San Diego.
// Aug. 07, 2009 - 07:32 GMT