This year's Nobel Prize week opens on Monday with the announcement of winners in physiology or medicine, the Nobel Foundation said in a statement.

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 00:14 GMT

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece Aleka Papariga said on Monday she was disappointed with the results of Sunday's parliamentary election in the country won by the Socialists.

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 01:13 GMT

The number of people diagnosed with swine flu in Russia has risen to 570, Russia's top sanitary official said on Sunday.

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 02:02 GMT

Pyongyang is ready to discuss with foreign mediators the nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula in bilateral and multilateral formats, the official N. Korean news agency KCNA said on Sunday.

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 02:54 GMT

Eurasia's tallest volcano, the Klyuchevskoy, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, has shown signs of intensified activity throwing red-hot rocks to a height of 100 meters (about 330 feet).

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 03:37 GMT

Eurasia's highest volcano, the Klyuchevskoy, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, has shown signs of intensified activity throwing red-hot rocks to a height of 100 meters (about 330 feet).

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 03:37 GMT

A North Korean ship heading for Pakistan was detained and searched by the Indian coast guard, Press Trust of India reported on Monday.

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 04:54 GMT

Indian authorities say medical teams are being rushed to flood-devastated areas in the country's south where about 205 people have died after five days of unceasing torrential rains. K. Rosaiah, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, says more than 450,000 people displaced by the floods are sheltering in 100 relief camps across the state. Nearly a hundred thousand homes have been swept away by flood waters, which have submerged a large swathe of land across southern India.

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 06:07 GMT

A Kyrgyz parliamentary committee will consider draft agreements allowing France and Spain to use the Manas airbase for the transit of troops and supplies to Afghanistan.

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 06:17 GMT

Authorities from the former Georgian republic of Abkhazia will order passports in Russia giving its citizens the ability to travel abroad, a Russian daily reported on Monday.

// Oct. 05, 2009 - 06:28 GMT