A Proton-M rocket with a Chinese telecommunications satellite will be launched on Tuesday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federal Space Agency said.
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 05:15 GMT
Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who is facing extradition from Thailand to the United States for alleged illegal arms trafficking, said on Tuesday he was hopeful of a “fair” verdict.
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 06:03 GMT
Coroners have finished the autopsy report in the death of Michael Jackson, but it will not be released while detectives continue their investigation, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 06:43 GMT
The bodies of the head of a humanitarian organization and her husband were found in Grozny early on Tuesday, a spokesman for Chechen investigators said.
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 07:25 GMT
Russian DIY enthusiasts enter their homemade flying machines in the Red Bull Flugtag Pilots Day competition. A selection of the most unusual constructions took off from the six metre-long pier on the Stroginsky Beach. </p>
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 08:01 GMT
Clinton bristled on Monday when – as she heard it – a Congolese university student asked what her husband thought about an international financial matter. Clinton arrived in the Congolese capital Kinshasa on part of her 11-day journey through Africa to promote development and good governance and underscore the Obama administration's commitment to the world's poorest continent.
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 08:04 GMT
Fire crews in the US city of Santa Clara, California, rescued two dozen people after a roller coaster ride got stuck on Monday.
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 08:06 GMT
Authorities have been unable to contact the freighter Arctic Sea for over a week. The vessel, with a Russian crew, disappeared off the coast of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean under suspicious circumstances.
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 08:09 GMT
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced on Tuesday he was holding off sending Russia's new ambassador to Ukraine over Kiev's anti-Russian policies.
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 08:20 GMT
The president of the south Russian republic of Ingushetia, who survived an assassination attempt in June and was released from a Moscow hospital on Monday, plans to resume work in a month.
// Aug. 11, 2009 - 08:33 GMT