The U.S. administration has announced that it would suspend the transfers of detainees from a prison in Guantanamo Bay to Yemen due to the unstable security situation in the Arab country.
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 00:23 GMT
At least one Palestinian militant was killed and four other were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the central Gaza Strip, as the death toll in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict starts its count in 2010.
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 01:25 GMT
A group of Russian journalists has been rescued from a snow trap following an avalanche in the mountains in Northern Caucasus
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 02:12 GMT
A false bomb threat forced on Wednesday an emergency evacuation of 409 passengers on board a Russian train in a Belarusian city of Orsha
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 03:15 GMT
The Russian authorities have pledged to transfer the full authority over the famed Novodevichy Convent in Moscow to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2010.
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 04:15 GMT
Bodies of at least 18 workers have been found so far after a recent fire at a coal mine in central China's Hunan Province
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 04:44 GMT
The death toll in a recent fire at a coal mine in central China's Hunan Province has risen to 25 workers, China Daily reported on Wednesday.
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 05:58 GMT
At least five police were killed and another ten wounded in a blast near a traffic police post in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, local law-enforcement bodies said on Wednesday.
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 06:29 GMT
The death toll from the swine flu outbreak in India has exceeded 1,000 people, the Indian Health Ministry reported on Wednesday.
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 07:04 GMT
A suicide bomber struck an army barracks in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir on Wednesday, killing at least three soldiers and wounding 11 others, local media reported, referring to army sources.
// Jan. 06, 2010 - 07:28 GMT