Myanmar announced Tuesday it is delaying a crucial constitutional referendum in areas badly hit by a cyclone that killed more than 10,000 people and may have left as many as a million homeless. Officials feared the death toll could soar.
BOSTON - A study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers. Youths who lived in towns with strict bans were 40 percent less likely to become regular smokers than those
KHARTOUM, Sudan - An Al-Jazeera cameraman released from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay returned home to Sudan early Friday after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide protests. Sami al-Haj, along with two other Sudanese released from Guantanamo prison in
Travelling with babies and children has never been easy, and dealing with Russian officialdom is rarely straightforward either. When you combine these two factors you have the recipe for some nightmarish times. Fortunately, Moscow airports - with the introduction of
The last-known member of the circle of plotters who failed in a 1944 attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler has died. Family cook Margrith Schmitz confirmed a report Friday in Germany's Frankfurter Allgmeine Zeitung newspaper that Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager died
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - Traffic in a number of streets in the center of Moscow will be restricted on Wednesday while Dmitry Medvedev is inaugurated as President of the Russian Federation. This is to guarantee security for the event, a
Pushkin Descendants To Meet in Moscow Next Year MOSCOW (MN, RIA Novosti) - One year from now, descendants of Alexander Pushkin will assemble in Moscow for the first international meeting of the poet's descendants, a source in the city administration
Five policemen were killed by a bomb explosion in the Chechen capital city of Grozny on Sunday night. The blast occurred at 11:10 p.m. local time as a team of 10 policemen was passing by. Russian news agencies originally put
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - Airplanes of the Russian Air Force and specialists of the Federal Hydro-Meteorological Service (RosHydromet) guarantee clear air over Moscow on Victory Day, May 9, Colonel Alexander Drobychevski, the assistant to the Russian Air Force Commandant, told
It has been a long time since tanks have rumbled through the city and into Red Square to thrill crowds and flex Russia's military might. On May 9, Victory Day events will again feature large numbers of troops, tanks and
Russian and U.S. officials signed an important agreement on civilian nuclear power on Tuesday that will give the U.S. access to Russian technology and could hand Moscow lucrative deals for storing spent fuel. The deal, signed on the eve of
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - A recent survey shows overwhelming support for this year's use of heavy military vehicles and weapons in the May 9 parade. Seventy percent of Russians are in favor of heavy artillery returning to the parades on
U.S. officials on Tuesday announced they had charged alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout on four counts of terrorism for seeking to sell millions of dollars of weapons to Colombian rebels. The Department of Justice officially unsealed the indictment against
An event which will likely be marked as unique in future Russian history books took place in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow at noon on May 7th. For the first time, a President of the Russian Federation stepped down
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry confirmed Tuesday that British soccer fans traveling to Moscow for the Champions League final between Chelsea FC and Manchester United will not need a visa. >>
