Iranian police clashes with protesters in Tehran - media
Iranian riot police have clashed with thousands of opposition supporters in Tehran during a Shiite religious ceremony
// Dec. 27, 2009 - 00:22 GMT
Philippine ferry sinks, 25 people missing - media
Twenty-five people are missing after an inter-island ferry sank off the Philippine coast shortly before midnight on Saturday
// Dec. 27, 2009 - 01:33 GMT
Moscow police officer knifed to death
An unidentified attacker murdered a police officer using a knife early on Sunday in southwestern Moscow
// Dec. 27, 2009 - 02:20 GMT
False bomb threat causes panic at shopping mall near Moscow
A false bomb threat has caused traffic jams and panic among holiday shoppers at a large shopping mall in the outskirts of Moscow
// Dec. 27, 2009 - 04:01 GMT
Road crash kills five in western Kazakhstan
Five people, including a 9-year-old child, have died in a road crash in western Kazakhstan
// Dec. 27, 2009 - 04:50 GMT
Uzbekistan votes in parliamentary election
Uzbekistan is voting on Sunday in elections to the lower house of parliament, with candidates contesting 150 seats in the ex-Soviet republic's legislature.
// Dec. 27, 2009 - 06:13 GMT
Thieves steal $60,000 from cash machine in Russia's Far East
Two unidentified persons stole 1.8 million rubles ($60,000) from an automatic teller machine at a customs academy in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, local police said on Sunday.
// Dec. 27, 2009 - 08:04 GMT
Three people killed in Beirut explosion - media
Saturday's explosion in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killed at least three people and another six were wounded, the Lebanese daily An-Nahar reported on Sunday.
// Dec. 27, 2009 - 08:51 GMT
New metro stations open in Moscow
The first train ran from Strogino to Mitino on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro.
// Dec. 27, 2009 - 09:32 GMT