The eight-year presidency of Vladimir Putin will come to an end today according to a carefully scripted scenario as his successor Dmitry Medvedev is sworn into office. Mr Putin is almost certain to be named as Prime Minister tomorrow, and

One of the most fashionable residential pockets in London was the scene last night of a gun battle which culminated in the killing of a lone gunman.

Prison life is all about gangsters and Radio 4, Pete Doherty declared as he walked free from Wormwood Scrubs yesterday.

Southeast Europe is one of the most earthquake-prone parts of the continent, but so far a cross-regional approach to assessing its geohazards has been lacking. A new mapping project seeks to change that.

A new pilot project in Bulgaria will furnish wireless internet access to major schools in the country. Also in news this week: Turkish scientists discover the world's oldest temple.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- Thousands of Bosnian Serbs gathered in the Jasenovac concentration camp on Sunday (May 4th) to commemorate...

Presidential press service disclosed this in a statement.

On May 7, partly cloudy weather, no precipitations, and northeastern wind of 5-10 m/s are expected in Kyiv. Temperature will stand at +4...+6 C at night and +11...+13 C in the daytime.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry made this statement.

Tihipko announced this in an interview with the Internet-based Ukrainska Pravda newspaper.

She expressed this concern when opening a meeting on this problem.

The press service of the Russian Agriculture Ministry announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.

As she put it, Yuschenko will give an assessment to economic, political and international events, and will outline strategic directions of the country development in contemporary conditions.

Anatolii Holubchenko, the first deputy head of the city administration, told this to the press, while accompanying Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi during the inspection of Andriivskyi Uzviz.

Chernovetskyi said this to the question of Ukrainian News during his visit to Andriivskyi Uzviz Street.

He gave his position in an interview with the Hlavred Internet newspaper.

Last night on the Lenin Square in the center of Donetsk some evildoers poured out white paint upon the boots of the monument to the leader of the world proletariat.This morning, the utilities service employees re-painted 'white art' into black.

Thirty four people were mortally injured due to traumas got at Ukraine's enterprises in the period from 21 April to 4 May, according to the press service of Gosgorpromnadzor (State Industrial Supervision)22 were mortally injures at Crimean enterprises, 3 -

In Moscow, in the Museum of personal collections of Pushkin State Art Museum, an exhibition was opened 'On the Altar of Time': sculpture and peoples' icons of XIX century from the collection of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, said

In Kramatorsk, a thief who specialized in breaking plastic windows was arrested, according to the State Guarding Service administration of militia in the Donetsk oblast.The infringer was caught at one of wholesale bases in Kramatorsk. The guard who was patrolling