U.S. and Russian members of parliament will meet in Washington to discuss the ratification of a nuclear arms reduction pact to replace the outdated START treaty after a nuclear summit due in the U.S. capital in April.
// Feb. 05, 2010 - 00:31 GMT
The world's oldest monastery of Saint Antony near Egypt's coast town of Al-Zaafarana has opened its doors for pilgrims after almost five years of renovation.
// Feb. 05, 2010 - 01:52 GMT
The death of Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy was accidental and caused by pneumonia, iron deficiency anemia, and multiple drug intoxication, U.S. media has said.
// Feb. 05, 2010 - 02:20 GMT
North Korean authorities will release a U.S. human rights activist, detained in December last year for illegally entering the country.
// Feb. 05, 2010 - 02:59 GMT
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the country's prosecutor general and the Kremlin administration to investigate the situation in a disputed village within the confines of Moscow, where houses of local residents are being demolished following court rulings.
// Feb. 05, 2010 - 03:53 GMT
Russia's Progress cargo spaceship, launched on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this week, docked with the orbital station in an automatic regime on Friday.
// Feb. 05, 2010 - 04:48 GMT
China has imposed antidumping measures on U.S. poultry imports, the country's trade ministry said on Friday.
// Feb. 05, 2010 - 05:09 GMT
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will arrive in Germany on Friday on a visit that will see talks with his German counterpart and participation in a security conference in Munich.
// Feb. 05, 2010 - 06:03 GMT
Five soldiers were killed and six injured in a clash with militants in Russia's troubled southern republic of Chechnya, a police source said on Friday.
// Feb. 05, 2010 - 06:03 GMT