Mexican tycoon Carlo Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth, according to the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 02:45 GMT
At least 11 people were killed when a bus fell off a bridge in southern China.
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 03:03 GMT
NATO has extended the mandate of its anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia until the end of 2012, the alliance's spokesman James Appathurai has said.
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 03:58 GMT
Drug addiction, which has spread significantly across Russia over the past decade, poses a serious threat to the country's security.
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 04:55 GMT
Two suspected armed robbers died while celebrating a successful raid when a grenade went off in an apartment in east Siberia's Irkutsk Region, police said on Thursday.
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 05:43 GMT
Two people were killed as a private helicopter crashed in Russia's northern republic of Karelia, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 05:50 GMT
Police investigating Tuesday's deadly fire in a downtown Moscow nightclub are looking into the possibility that the blaze was started deliberately, investigators said Thursday
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 06:01 GMT
The Indian government's security committee has approved the allocation of $2.3 billion to retrofit the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier (INS Vikramaditya), the IANS news agency reported Thursday.
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 07:02 GMT
Russia has voiced concerns about Israeli plans to build 1,600 homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, fearing they may damage peace efforts ahead of the Mideast Quartet's meeting in Moscow, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 08:09 GMT
Yulia Tymoshenko has been elected leader of the united democratic opposition. This opposition movement gathered at the Taras Shevchenko monument in Kiev where they announced their decision and their newly-elected leader called for them to fight against everything anti-Ukrainian. </p>
// Mar. 11, 2010 - 08:15 GMT