Syria's state news agency said today that a bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed 16 people, at least half of them women and children.

Russia on Wednesday lost the ability to send commands to most of its satellites and its segment of the International Space Station following a power cable failure near Moscow.

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Russian divers have located the sunken cargo ship Amurskaya which was carrying a 700-tonne cargo of gold ore, rescuers from the Yuzhsakhalinsk centre said Wednesday.

The ship had sunk near the Shanta

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday fired defence minister Anatoly Serdyukov over a corruption scandal, the most dramatic change to the government since he returned to the Kremlin for a third term.

Indian athletes have seldom caught the eye in Olympics and other international events but the country has ignominiously topped the charts in the doping arena.

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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that he believed that punk band Pussy Riot should not be in prison, after two members convicted of hooliganism began two-year terms in camps.

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Russian President Vladim­ir­ Putin’s visit to India for the 13th annual India-Russ­ia­ summit has been postp­o­n­ed.

Slated to be in India on November 1, the Russian leader will only be here now on

Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India, which was expected around October-end, has been deferred to December 24.

The external affairs ministry on Monday tersely announced that Putin will p

The two members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two-year terms in a Russian prison camp accused the husband of one of them of falsely acting as their spokesman, in a new sign of a split

The Russian defence ministry is planning to raise and scrap two sunken nuclear submarines in the northern Barents and Kara seas in order to prevent potential radioactive pollution of the area.

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