Two police officers and one militant were killed overnight in a shootout in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a local Interior Ministry official said on Monday.
// Aug. 10, 2009 - 05:40 GMT
Two truck bombings left at least 25 people dead in north Iraq's Mosul, and another 16 people were killed by two car bombs in Baghdad on Monday, international media reported.
// Aug. 10, 2009 - 06:08 GMT
At least 12 people have died in torrential rains and floods in western Japan which was hit by typhoon Etau, the Kyodo News agency said on Monday citing local police.
// Aug. 10, 2009 - 06:17 GMT
The number of officially registered unemployed people in Russia declined by another 6,000 in the first week of August and stood at 2,140,000, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said on Monday.
// Aug. 10, 2009 - 07:15 GMT
An explosion caused by a road-side bomb killed one border guard and wounded another in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a local Interior Ministry official said on Monday.
// Aug. 10, 2009 - 07:20 GMT
Typhoon Morakot slammed into China's east coast Sunday just hours after nearly one (m) million people evacuated the area. It earlier lashed Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the island's worst flooding in 50 years and left dozens missing and feared dead. Taiwan's CTV television network broadcast dramatic pictures on Sunday as flood waters from Typhoon Morakot undermined an entire hotel building causing it to topple over.
// Aug. 10, 2009 - 08:06 GMT
Investigators will conduct a new probe into the death last October of Russian hockey star Alexei Cherepanov, an investigative committee spokesman said on Monday.
// Aug. 10, 2009 - 08:23 GMT
More than 500,000 people are expected to visit the MAKS-2009 air show outside Moscow on August 18–23, the organizers said on Monday.
// Aug. 10, 2009 - 13:06 GMT
Polish prosecutors have begun investigations into the disappearance of 30,000 carrier pigeons during a long-distance race, Poland's TVN24 has reported.
// Aug. 10, 2009 - 13:38 GMT