The United States insisted Saturday that its decision to sell arms to Taiwan is right despite severe criticism from China.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 00:03 GMT

The court of Kinshasa in the Congo has acquitted seven Ukrainians and one Russian detained as part of an investigation into a murder.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 00:59 GMT

At least 10 people died and 82 were injured when two buses collided head-on in southeastern Bolivia.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 01:53 GMT

Some 10,000 residents of Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad took part in a protest rally in downtown Kaliningrad Saturday.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 03:16 GMT

The speaker of the legislature in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar died in a car accident Saturday.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 03:55 GMT

A consortium led by Russia's largest independent crude producer LUKoil is expected to sign a contract with Iraq on Sunday to develop the West Qurna-2 oil field.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 04:52 GMT

A plane carrying Russian doctors who treated residents of quake-hit Haiti took off Saturday and is expected to land Sunday morning at Ramenskoye airport near Moscow, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 05:09 GMT

Over 200 children, most of them younger than three years, have been hospitalized with acute intestinal infection in the Magadan Region in the Russian Far East, Rossiya TV channel reported on Sunday.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 06:59 GMT

At least one person was killed and eleven others were injured in an earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan province, news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 07:38 GMT

The death toll in heavy flooding in southern Peru where thousands of tourists visiting the Inca city of Machu Micchu were trapped has risen to 20, the BBC reported on Sunday.

// Jan. 31, 2010 - 08:49 GMT