Russia and NATO will try to work out a joint position on fighting drug trafficking in Afghanistan during a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council at the ambassador level, which will take place in Brussels on March 24.
// Mar. 19, 2010 - 00:47 GMT
Russia's cross country skier Irek Zaripov took his fourth gold at the 2010 Paralympics in Canada's Vancouver after winning the Men's 10 km, Sitting.
// Mar. 19, 2010 - 01:35 GMT
U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who earlier postponed his visit to the turbulent region amid a row between the U.S. and Israel over plans for new settlement construction in east Jerusalem, would travel to the Middle East on the weekend.
// Mar. 19, 2010 - 02:30 GMT
Germany's Wolfsburg has beaten Russia's Rubin 2–1 in a struggle for a place in the Europa League quarterfinals at Volkswagen Arena.
// Mar. 19, 2010 - 03:15 GMT
Russian police have arrested four top officials of the Eurasia Logistics company, Russia's major industrial and warehouse property developer, on charges of complicity in embezzling some $2 billion of Kazakh investments.
// Mar. 19, 2010 - 04:10 GMT
Greek Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias has said he would not run for the second term if the did not manage to reach progress in a dispute with the Turkish Cypriots over the island by the end of his term in 2013.
// Mar. 19, 2010 - 04:55 GMT
A large herd of hungry elephants has taken over part of the Indonesian village of Petani on the island of Sumatra, forcing villagers to flee their homes, the country's Antara news agency reported on Friday.
// Mar. 19, 2010 - 06:30 GMT