Police in the Western Siberian city of Tyumen are investigating who replaced 16 kg of pure heroin with salt at the city's main police department.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 00:15 GMT

FC Moskva has become the first football club ever to withdraw from the Russian Premier League.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 01:08 GMT

The president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, will visit Russia on Saturday, on the first such visit in the history of bilateral relations.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 01:42 GMT

Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has said in a statement it would file charges related to Michael Jackson's death on Monday.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 02:34 GMT

A Russian frigate, the Neustrashimy (Fearless), took part in an operation to thwart a pirate attack on Slovenia's Ariella cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 03:20 GMT

North Korea's authorities have released a U.S. human rights activist who was detained on December 24 while crossing the country's borde.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 03:52 GMT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the ten U.S. missionaries, charged with attempting to take 33 children out of Haiti, will be tried in a Haitian court.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 04:41 GMT

At least 25 people have been killed and over 100 injured by two subsequent blasts in Pakistan's financial capital, Karachi, local media reported on Saturday.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 06:07 GMT

Ukraine's border control service stopped on Saturday a group of CIS observers from Russia, a deputy mission chief said.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 07:04 GMT

At least one person has been killed and thousands have been evacuated as a cyclone has hit French Polynesia, according to Euronews television channel.

// Feb. 06, 2010 - 08:10 GMT