A total of 240 Russian tourists, including five children, have returned to Moscow on Monday after they had to cut short their vacations in Tunisia over the tense situation in the country.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is confident that holding the 2018 Soccer World Cup in Russia will give a powerful boost to infrastructure development in the European part of Russia.

Thirty-one amateur fishermen carried away on an ice block into the Curonian Bay were rescued, Kaliningrad emergency situations department spokesman Alexei Baranov said.

A Russian tourist went missing in Israel on Saturday as he was swimming in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Ilyushin Il-76 of Georgian private sunways airlines, which crashed in Pakistan on Sunday, was in good condition, airline representatives said here.

The former adversaries —Russia and Nato —have made a historic step to be closer to each other, German chancellor Angela Merkel said at the Nato summit in Lisbon.

First of its kind international conference on differently abled with participation from more than 40 tourist companies, health resorts, rehabilitation centres and hotels from 13 countries will be held

October will become the longest month of 2010 when several countries across the globe will adjust their clocks one hour backward a week from now.