The head of the company operating Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is stepping down and is taking responsibility for the handling of Japan's nuclear crisis, media reports said Fr

The head of the company operating Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is stepping down and is taking responsibility for the handling of Japan's nuclear crisis, media reports said on Friday.

Libya is ready to comply with UN security council resolutions if Nato ends its air strikes and the rebels cease hostilities, said Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday.

Suzanne, the wife of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, has signed documents to hand over her property to the state, Egypt's MENA news agency said.

Russia plans to host the 2018 Fifa World Cup in 13 cities, but the final decision would be made by Fifa, football's international governing body, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said.

A postmortem photograph of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, killed by US forces in Pakistan on Sunday, will be published, CIA chief Leon Panetta said on Tuesday.

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The Russian military successfully test launched a Sineva ballistic missile Tuesday from a submarine in the Arctic, the Interfax news agency quoted a defence ministry spokesman as saying.

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Former Egyptian interior minister Habib al-Adly appeared before a criminal court on Tuesday on charges of ordering the shooting of civilians during opposition protests in January, the local MENA news

A Kazakhstan official with Unesco was restrained by the crew on a flight from Paris to Rome after he threatened a female flight attendant with a knife and demanded that the plane be diverted to the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

A video showing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dancing to the song 'American Boy' by local pop group Kombinatsia has become a rage on the internet.

The video was added on Youtube April 19.

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