Massimo Tartaglia sent Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi a letter apologizing for his 'villainous' Sunday attack on the premier, Italy's media reported late on Monday.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 01:36 GMT
Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, has promised Washington a “second Vietnam” in case the United States shows military aggression in Latin America.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 02:41 GMT
Six people, including two children, died in a house fire in the second largest Russian city of St. Petersburg, a source in the emergencies ministry said on Tuesday.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 03:30 GMT
Two more victims of the horrific fire in a Russian nightclub two weeks ago have died, bringing the death toll to 148, an emergency service in the Perm Region, where the tragedy occurred, said.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 04:24 GMT
A powerful explosion occurred in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul on Tuesday, a RIA Novosti correspondent has reported.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 06:01 GMT
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is on the list of top three CIS leaders whom Russians trust, while Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev are on the first and the second places by Russians' sympathies.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 06:45 GMT
The next test launch of Russia's troubled Bulava intercontinental missile could take place in January, an unidentified Defense Ministry official said on Friday.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 06:46 GMT
The Russian Orthodox Church is ready to fight for Christian values in the West, alongside Catholics and Protestants.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 06:51 GMT
A conscript has killed his colleague and shot himself in the city of Engels in the Volga region, a police source said on Tuesday.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 07:00 GMT
China has put into orbit its first public-welfare mini satellite, Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported.
// Dec. 15, 2009 - 07:17 GMT