California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger showed his sense of humor in a message attached to a bill he recently vetoed, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 00:26 GMT

The presidents of Russia and Ecuador, Dmitry Medvedev and Rafael Correa, will discuss energy, oil production and military cooperation at talks in Moscow on Thursday.

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 01:45 GMT

The second Russian industrial exhibition entitled Expo-Russia Armenia will be held in Yerevan October 29–31.

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 02:30 GMT

The relatives of those who died in Monday's crash of a Russian business jet near Minsk airport are expected in the Belarusian capital on Thursday.

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 03:53 GMT

Russia hopes the U.S. administration will lift the economic embargo on Cuba, a deputy Russian envoy told the UN General Assembly.

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 04:27 GMT

The Russian-crewed and Maltese-flagged vessel at the center of a mysterious hijacking case has approached Maltese territorial waters, where negotiations on its handover are due to begin.

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 04:50 GMT

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 04:50 GMT

Five people were killed in a road accident in Kazakhstan's western Aktyubinsk Region, the ex-Soviet state's Emergencies Ministry reported Thursday

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 05:27 GMT

A woman has died of swine flu in the Siberian Krasnoyarsk region, bringing Russia's death toll in the pandemic to five people, the regional health minister said on Thursday.

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 06:33 GMT

Eleven people were killed and 17 injured in a bus crash in the eastern Chinese Zhejiang Province, the Xinhua news agency reported Thursday.

// Oct. 29, 2009 - 07:05 GMT