Police have identified some of the militants who killed 11 people during an attack on a police post and nearby health center in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan last night.
// Aug. 14, 2009 - 05:53 GMT
New photographs of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro have been released in Cuba showing him in what appears to be good health.
// Aug. 14, 2009 - 06:03 GMT
Energy cooperation and investment projects are set to dominate talks between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in south Russia's Sochi on Friday.
// Aug. 14, 2009 - 06:15 GMT
Clashes occurred in Buenos Aires on Wednesday as police tried to empty a building that had been illegally occupied. Violent clashes erupted between police and social leaders, local artists and even government workers who had taken over the building and established a cultural centre there. The clashes took place after the owner of the building called the police to have the place vacated. Three policemen and journalists covering the events were reported injured. After several clashes police were able to empty the building. Fourteen people were arrested, according to local media.
// Aug. 14, 2009 - 06:25 GMT
August 13 is International Left-Handers Day, with about 850 million people marking it annually. Russia is the country with the most left-handers;so it makes sense that they have stationery specially adapted for their needs.
// Aug. 14, 2009 - 06:41 GMT
The San Francisco Zoo held its annual March of the Penguins on Wednesday and introduced a handful of young penguins to their larger family and a larger pool.Four adolescent penguins were paraded through the zoo grounds to their new home on Penguin Island amid a cheering crowd and some noisy fellow animals.For the first several months of their lives, the four Magellanic chicks attended fish school and were separated from the colony of 54 penguins that live on a man-made rock formation. The zoo says their Magellanic Penguins are the largest and most successful colony in captivity.
// Aug. 14, 2009 - 06:43 GMT
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drop into a local bar to watch the Russian soccer team in action.
// Aug. 14, 2009 - 06:53 GMT
A Russian serviceman in the country's south Urals was responsible for two car crashes in which seven people lost their lives and five more were injured, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti on Friday.
// Aug. 14, 2009 - 07:12 GMT
Four police officers were killed and another four injured in an operation to detain two militants in a town near Chechnya's capital, a police official said on Friday.
// Aug. 14, 2009 - 07:22 GMT