The University of Alberta Pandas Women's hockey team celebrate their win over the McGill University Martlets after the CIS 2010 Womenâ??s Hockey Championship gold medal game at St. Francis Xavier...

GEORGIA'S opposition has accused the government of being behind a fake prime-time news report that Russian tanks had entered the capital at the call of the opposition, causing widespread panic. For...

USA (inside lane) on their way to gold in the Men's 4 x 400m Relay DOHA, Qatar â?? Nine medals and two American records. Team USA brought the team medal count to 17 Sunday night to win the medal...

Outraged Georgians on Sunday slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's president was dead....

Bulgaria received a special prize at the fifth annual Intourmarket (ITM) expo in Moscow, Russia. The prize was awarded to Bulgaria by the organizers for its participation and support for the forum,...

KUALA LUMPUR/LONDON DEVELOPING-NATION stocks climbed, sending the MSCI Emerging Markets Index to its fifth weekly gain, on rising commodities and increased speculation that Greece will get bailed out...

MOSCOW - RUSSIA'S top public health official called on Sunday for a ban on retail sales of alcohol after 9 pm as part of a Kremlin-led campaign to crack down on alcohol abuse, state-run news agency...

The ceremony of signing of the Agreement about cooperation in 2010 between the company 'Gazprom dobycha Noyabrsk' and the administration of Purovskiy district took place in the town Noyabrsk....

The second International gas-chemical forum IGCF'10 is opened in Khanty-Mansiysk. Experts of gas-chemical processes, investors, legislators, manufacturers of equipment, design and construction...

INDIAN WELLS, California (AFP) Andy Murray, trying to improve on a runner-up finish last year, booked his third-round berth at the BNP Paribas Open Sunday with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Italian Andreas...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia scored most votes in the eight regions but in six of those its support fell by between nine and 24 percentage points compared to national elections in...

The spoof was broadcast on Imedi, one of Georgia's biggest TV channels, and most viewers missed a brief announcement at the start of the 30 minute broadcast explaining that the news bulletin was a...

AFP/File â?? Russian blogger Alexander Malyutin as he speaks in his office in Moscow in 2009. While the docile, state-dominated â?¦ MOSCOW (AFP) â?? It started with a golden bed and African...

More than three months late, Obama and Medvedev dive for the finish line in a bid to maintain momentum on disarmament Apologies if you have read this somewhere before many times, but Washington and...

David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters Georgian opposition supporters using loudspeakers in central Tbilisi on Sunday to protest a fake news report aired on pro-government Imedi...

Olimpstroi -funded construction site in Sochi have not been paid in months, with some complaining that they are going hungry after giving up their passports as collateral to get food at grocery...

Ilya Naymushin / Reuters A woman leaving a voting booth during a district election Sunday in Verkhnyaya Biryusa, just south of Krasnoyarsk. Early official figures indicated a high turnout Sunday...

Manish Swarup / AP Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for talks in New Delhi on Friday. Prime...

Moscow's top doctor said Friday that smoking-related diseases were growing and warned that teenage smoking was leading to a "national catastrophe." Dr. Leonid Lazebnik painted a grim...

Aeroflot passengers complained Sunday that they had to sleep on the floor and chairs at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after bad weather delayed their flight by more than 24 hours. An...

Kommersant FM radio starts broadcasting in the capital. The station will operate on the 93.6 frequency in an all-news format with a focus on business and financial information, spokeswoman Galina...

The Russian paralympic team won the most gold medals on the first day of competitions Saturday in Canada, in stark contrast with the recent disappointing results of the country's regular Olympians. ...

Vladimir Bogdanov has said the company will hang on to its 21 percent stake in Hungarian oil and gas producer MOL, despite a shareholder rights dispute. “We are satisfied. The shares are...

With a rebounding economy, resurgent commodity prices and a strengthening currency, Russia is beginning to cast itself in a more favorable light to foreign funds, which rapidly decreased their Russia...

Dmitry Rogozin , has sharply criticized the alliance's battle with drug trafficking in Afghanistan, saying it has led to a surge in heroin smuggling that is endangering Russia's national security. ...

Dmitry Kozak accused environmentalists on Friday of taking an "unconstructive" position over preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. As the four-year countdown to the games...

Peter Andrews / Reuters NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaking at a conference Friday in the Polish capital, Warsaw. NATO...

Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych addressing ministers in the newly formed government in Kiev on Friday. BRUSSELS — New Ukrainian...

Anatoly Ustinenko / Reuters An overturned vehicle lying in debris Saturday after a flood in Kyzyl-Agash, a village 400 kilometers north of Almaty. ALMATY, Kazakhstan — The death toll from a...

Mikhail Klimentyev / RIA-Novosti / AP President Dmitry Medvedev working at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow on Wednesday night. ...

The Foreign Ministry indignantly dismissed U.S. criticism of Russia's human rights record Friday, saying the United States was guilty of its own abuses from Afghanistan to "the streets of...

Vladimir Pronin , who was fired by the Kremlin after a police officer went on a shooting rampage last year, has a new job as an aide to Deputy Mayor Vladimir Resin, who oversees the city's...

Novatek , the country's second-largest gas producer, reported a 13.7 percent year-on-year rise in its 2009 full-year net profits Friday, beating analysts' estimates on the back of rising output and...

LONDON — European fuel oil, used mainly as shipping fuel, traded close to the lowest in more than eight months on Friday as Russia increases exports. Fuel oil in the Mediterranean traded at a...

Vladimir Putin said Friday, touting the two countries' potential for cooperation on high-technology projects. "We need to identify priorities for our joint work in space," Putin said...

PhosAgro , Russia's largest producer of phosphate-based fertilizers, said Friday that it agreed on a $1.5 billion three-year supply deal with India to compete with North American producers. PhosAgro...

Manish Swarup / AP Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for talks in New Delhi on Friday. NEW DELHI — Indian Prime...

Opel workers demanded reassurances Friday that their European brand would not be disadvantaged at the expense of sister brand Chevrolet, after Opel lost responsibility for the Russian region to an...

Ruben Vardanyan said in an interview. AvtoVAZ needs to increase the liquidity of its publicly traded shares to attract investors as it struggles to return to profitability, he said Thursday in...

CHICAGO — Some 42,000 years after, scientists say, she fell into mud near a river and suffocated, an intact baby woolly mammoth from the Ice Age is to go on display for the first time in the...

DOHA, Qatar -- Pole vault world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva came up short at a second straight major meet, finishing out of the medals Sunday at a world indoor championships highlighted by Teddy...

MOSCOWThe ruling United Russia party appeared headed for an expected victory in regional elections Sunday, according to partial results, although many disgruntled voters threw their support behind...

Outraged Georgians have slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's president was dead. The...

KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) Israel's ambassador to Poland Sunday deplored the desecration of a Holocaust memorial in southern Poland and criticized world leaders who deny Israel's right to exist. 'This...

Kenyan-born American Bernard Lagat rolled back the years to win the men's world indoor 3000m crown on Sunday, six years after his last gold when he was running for the country of his birth. The...

Russians traditionally shy away from public protests and rallies not backed by local authorities often struggle to attract more than a few dozen people. But 10,000 people took to the streets of the...