UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned Sunday's terrorist attacks on the Iraqi capital that killed over 140 people.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 00:42 GMT

Hollywood's Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn has left for Havana to take an interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the U.S. entertainment news website TMZ reported.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 01:41 GMT

A Russian Pacific Fleet task force that has been on anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden has completed an official three-day visit to the port of Klang in Malaysia, a spokesman for the fleet said.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 02:55 GMT

At least 12 people were injured after a passenger bus flipped on a highway in Russia's south Urals, a spokesman for the local emergencies service said on Monday.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 03:44 GMT

At least 12 people were injured after a passenger bus capsized on a highway in Russia's south Urals, a spokesman for the local emergencies service said on Monday.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 03:44 GMT

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov has signed a resolution to take out a federal loan of 16.5 billion rubles ($570 mln) to cover the city's budget deficit for 2009, a municipal government source said on Monday.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 06:24 GMT

Legendary goalie Lev Yashin would have celebrated his 80th birthday this year. He was the best football goalkeeper of the 20th century, Olympic champion, European Cup winner, and 5-time USSR champion.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 06:26 GMT

Solar powered vehicles start race across the Australian outback.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 07:16 GMT

A monkey born to elderly parents surprises zoo staff in Latvia.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 07:17 GMT

Enhancing economic and political relations with Russia, settling the territorial dispute and signing a peace treaty are priorities of the new Japanese government, Japan's prime minister said on Monday.

// Oct. 26, 2009 - 07:59 GMT