The head of the Russian Orthodox Church's external church relations department has denied reports that a Vatican meeting of the Russian Church leader and the pope is being prepared.

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 00:36 GMT

Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry will hold on Wednesday and Thursday drills to deal with radiation, chemical and biological accidents in Primorye in the Russian Far East

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 01:31 GMT

Russia's judiciary is not yet ready for introduction of the death penalty for drug dealers

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 02:21 GMT

Mediators and observers in the conflict over Moldova's breakaway region of Transdnestr have urged the parties to the conflict to resume talks to find a just and long-term solution

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 03:18 GMT

Ugandan authorities have confirmed the Somali state minister for defense was held in the country's capital Kampala

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 04:01 GMT

The UN Security Council will on Wednesday discuss holding an official session to examine the Goldstone report on the Israeli military incursion into Gaza at the turn of the year, Russian diplomats said.

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 05:27 GMT

The U.S. Senate approved a bill on Tuesday to allocate $626 billion on defense spending in 2010, down from $653.7 billion in 2009.

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 06:23 GMT

Letters written by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh show him to be a rational man rather than a mad genius.

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 06:24 GMT

Beijing hosts a festival attended by hundreds of multiple-birth offspring.

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 06:24 GMT

Russia's emergencies ministry has put farms in Russia's southern Rostov Region under quarantine following confirmation of an outbreak of swine fever, the ministry said in a statement.

// Oct. 07, 2009 - 06:45 GMT