China has lifted a quarantine blockade on a remote northwestern town where pneumonic plague killed three and sickened twelve people, Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 08:00 GMT
Nine people are feared dead after a small plane and a tourist helicopter collided Saturday near New York City and plunged into the Hudson River, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday.
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 08:47 GMT
A cargo ship with Russian crew has gone missing off Portugal's Atlantic coast, the Russian maritime journal Sovfrakht reported on Sunday.
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 09:38 GMT
The number of people missing and feared drowned in the Tonga ferry disaster has risen to 93, local police said on Sunday.
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 11:36 GMT
On August 9, 1999, Russiaâ™s first president Boris Yeltsin introduced to the nation his successor, a man who he said could consolidate society and ensure the continuation of reform in Russia. </p>
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 12:28 GMT
On August 9, 1999, Russiaâ™s first president Boris Yeltsin introduced to the nation his successor, a man who he said could consolidate society and ensure the continuation of reform in Russia. </p>
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 13:19 GMT
Saudi Arabia has closed the Jeddah office of a Lebanon-based TV station after it broadcast an interview with a Saudi man who boasted about his sexual conquests, a government official said on Sunday.
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 13:20 GMT
The Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility on Sunday for a series of bomb attacks in June and July that killed three people, CNN reported.
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 14:01 GMT
On the anniversary of the start of the Russia-Georgia war, President Dmitry Medvedev said that Moscow would not revise its decision to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 14:35 GMT
The Russian Orthodox Church is celebrating on Sunday the day of St. Panteleimon the Healer, who cures the sick and is the patron saint of physicians.
// Aug. 09, 2009 - 16:35 GMT