Russian task force returns home after anti-piracy mission
The Russian Pacific Fleet's task force led by the Admiral Vinogradov destroyer will arrive on Saturday in the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok after a successful anti-piracy mission off the Somali coast.
// May. 21, 2011 - 13:51 GMT
Middle East settlement
// May. 21, 2011 - 15:37 GMT
Israel rejects Obama's 1967 border agreement call
Israeli Prime Minister has rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's call for an Israeli-Palestinian deal based on the 1967 borders.
// May. 21, 2011 - 15:37 GMT
Denis Lebedev vs. Roy Jones Jr.
Russia's Denis Lebedev will square off U.S. Roy Jones Jr. in a cruiserweight bout on May 21.
// May. 21, 2011 - 16:02 GMT
Giant barge arrives at Fukushima plant to store radioactive water
A giant water-storage barge has arrived at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to store highly radioactive waste water from the basement of a reactor building, Kyodo news reported on Saturday.
// May. 21, 2011 - 17:10 GMT
Andrei Sakharov - deputy and dissident
May 21 will be the 90th anniversary of the birth of Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov. One of the fathers of the Soviet H-bomb and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Sakharov was also a politician and dissident. He died at the age of 68 in 1989, having spent seven years in internal exile.
// May. 21, 2011 - 17:18 GMT
RIA Novosti denies Turkey election survey link
RIA Novosti has denied media reports that it helped carry out a controversial opinion poll ahead of Turkey's general election next month and is considering taking legal action.
// May. 21, 2011 - 17:54 GMT