Ukraine's Vitali Klitschko retained his WBC heavyweight title on Saturday night after beating previously undefeated challenger Kevin Johnson of the United States (22–1-1, 9 KOs).

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 00:30 GMT

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic arrives in Moscow on Sunday for a two-day working visit.

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 01:46 GMT

A 27-year-old man died in a Georgian hospital after he was diagnosed with A/H1N1 virus, becoming the first citizen of the former Soviet state to die of swine flu 

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 02:47 GMT

Venezuela and Cuba have signed agreements on 285 joint projects totaling about $3.16 billion at the summit of the regional ALBA trade bloc in Havana.

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 03:59 GMT

Kazakhstan is checking information on a cargo plane full of North Korean weapons detained in Thailand after an emergency landing at Bangkok airport, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 06:20 GMT

The death toll from last week's nightclub fire in a Russian Urals city has risen to 146, after one more person died in hospital, the Perm administration said on Sunday.

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 06:38 GMT

The Copenhagen police have released almost all protesters detained during a mass climate change rally in the Danish capital, the BBC reported on Sunday.

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 07:27 GMT

Robbers have seized 3 million rubles ($100,000) from a businessman in east Moscow, police said on Sunday.

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 08:28 GMT

A private plane crashed in the Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals, killing all eight people on its board, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday.

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 09:07 GMT

Abkhazia's incumbent President Sergei Bagapsh has won presidential elections in the first round, with 59.4% of votes cast in his favor, the Central Election Commission said on Sunday.

// Dec. 13, 2009 - 09:59 GMT