The U.S. is concerned by the detention of human rights activists, who gathered for an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow on Sunday, a spokesman for the Department of State said.
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 00:55 GMT
China seized 28.8 tons of drugs and arrested some 91,000 people, including 5,560 foreigners, on drug-related charges in 2009, Xinhua news agency reported.
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 02:41 GMT
Beijing warned U.S. President Barack Obama that in case he decides to meet with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, during his visit to China this month relations between the countries may deteriorate.
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 03:44 GMT
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss economic and humanitarian ties with Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday, a Kremlin source said on Monday.
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 04:33 GMT
A single-engine plane reporting on traffic made an emergency landing on a turnpike in the US state of New Jersey on Monday, inadvertently causing a morning rush-hour jam. No injuries were reported.
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 07:21 GMT
Irina Sharipova, 18, won the title of Miss Tatarstan 2010 and a traveling accommodation to Turkey at the 12th republican beauty contest, which finished in Kazan, Tatarstanâ™s capital, in the deep of night of January 31. </p>
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 08:00 GMT
Kazakhstan will not name Russia as a privileged supplier of satellites and will announce international tenders after the launch of its KazSat-2, the head of the Kazakh space agency said on Tuesday.
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 08:00 GMT
Residents of the southeastern Siberian city of Shelekhov had to put on facemasks to protect themselves from possible airborne contaminants after a blaze at a local aluminum plant killed at least one person.
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 08:07 GMT
Russia's presidential envoy arrived to the country's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad shaken by a large-scale anti-government protest rally last week, a Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday.
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 08:15 GMT
A twelve-year-old bullfighter from Mexico was gored twice by a bull during his bullfight on Sunday in Colombia.
// Feb. 02, 2010 - 08:17 GMT