Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, on Tuesday on a two-day visit.

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 05:20 GMT

One police officer was killed and another injured in an attack by militants in the Vedeno District of the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya early on Tuesday, a police source said

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 05:26 GMT

Siberia's Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area on Tuesday will lower its flag to half mast in memory of those who died in a fire at a north Siberian oil depository, an administration spokesman told RIA Novosti.

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 05:28 GMT

Russian international Roman Pavlyuchenko is ready to quit Tottenham Hotspur to keep his international career alive, the forward has told Sport Express.

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 06:14 GMT

A methane explosion in a coal mine in north China's Shanxi province has left at least 11 miners dead and three missing, Xinhua news agency reported

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 06:26 GMT

Russian international Diniyar Bilyaletdinov has signed for Everton from Lokomotiv Moscow for an undisclosed fee.

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 06:27 GMT

The Israeli Air Force on Tuesday bombed tunnels used for smuggling between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, killing at least three Palestinians and injuring another nine, a health official told RIA Novosti

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 07:31 GMT

Drug police in the Russian Volga republic of Tatarstan have seized 13 kg of heroin from a group of Afghan drug dealers, the Russian drug control service said

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 07:55 GMT

NASA called off the Discovery shuttle's launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday due to thundershowers near Cape Canaveral.

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 08:21 GMT

Russia and Mongolia signed a deal on Tuesday during President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to the country to set up a joint venture to mine and process uranium.

// Aug. 25, 2009 - 08:40 GMT