An Ariane-5 rocket has orbited two satellites, one civilian and one military, from the Kourou space center in French Guiana, the French satellite launch firm Arianespace said.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 00:09 GMT
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is arriving in Abkhazia on a two-day visit Friday to discuss the latest round of Geneva discussions on the situation in the Caucasus and meet with the Russian military.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 01:10 GMT
The U.K. Department for International Development said it is sending a team of rescuers and search equipment to Indonesia hit by two earthquakes that killed at least 1,100 people and injured many more.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 01:41 GMT
New NASA chief Charles F. Bolden will arrive on Friday at Russia's Mission Control to watch a Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft dock with the ISS and hold talks with Russian space agency Roscosmos head Anatoly Perminov, Roscosmos said.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 03:30 GMT
Egypt has set the signing of a reconciliation pact between the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas for October 22, an Egyptian newspaper reported.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 04:10 GMT
China has allocated $500,000 in aid to Indonesia hit by two earthquakes that killed at least 1,100 people and injured many more, Chinese media cited on Friday the Foreign Ministry as saying.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 04:18 GMT
Seven militants have been killed in the mountains of Chechnya during a special operation led by President Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic's interior minister said on Friday.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 05:11 GMT
Russian customs officials in the southern Urals city of Orenburg on Friday morning arrested two drug mules from Tajikistan with 225 capsules of heroin in their stomachs, a spokeswoman said.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 05:44 GMT
China continued to celebrate 60 years of communist rule with a gala and fireworks display in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Thursday night. In scenes reminiscent of last year's opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, thousands took part in the colourful spectacular which featured dancers, drummers and singers.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 05:54 GMT
Russia's Central Bank said Friday the country's narrowly defined money supply (M1) was 4 trillion 26.8 million rubles ($133.8 million at the current exchange rate) as of September 28, down 28.6 billion rubles ($950 million) in the week since September 21.
// Oct. 02, 2009 - 06:06 GMT