A powerful aftershock from Monday's earthquake in the southwest Chinese province of Sichuan hit the regional capital Chengdu on Tuesday, official news agency Xinhua reported.

In Britain, a law to allow human and animal material to be combined in embryos, to help find cures for disease, has passed its first parliamentary hurdle.

Ukraine has taken 76th place among 177 countries in 2007 according to Human Development Index. (In 2006 Ukraine took 77th place among 177 countries of the world.

The most powerful earthquake to hit China in 30 years has killed at least 10,000 people in south-western Sichuan province, with thousands more trapped.

At least 22 people have been killed and at least 150 injured after deadly tornados ripped through three Midwest U.S. states, national media reported on Monday.

Microsoft has appealed against a 899m euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.

There will be no early parliament elections in Ukraine, as Victor Yushchenko stated today in the Verkhovna Rada hall.

Iryna Zhuravska won the final of Miss Ukraine 2008 to end in Kyyiv. She received the crown worth 500 thousand dollars.

Tiny copy of Lastochkino Gnezdo (Swallow Nest) to be traditionally considered the symbol of the Crimea, will be made in the capital of Latvia Riga.

There is a "real possibility" that the Beijing Olympics will be attacked by terrorists, the head of global police body Interpol has warned.

A notorious drugs baron, who escaped from a Moroccan jail last December, has been recaptured, the Spanish authorities say.

At least 16 people were killed and 40 were wounded when a blast ripped through a packed commuter bus during the evening rush-hour in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, a police spokesman said.

American jazz on Lenin’s birth day. Tuesday stars of world jazz performed in Kharkiv. Bill Evans’s quintet Soulgrass. All in all the musicians possess about a dozen Grammys together with Sting, Mick Jagger, Miles Davis and Joan Osborn. Three years

External independent testing has started in Kharkiv today. More than 18 thousand high school students were taking it. 11 thousand of them are those finishing school. Another 7 those who had finished school a couple years ago. Today is the

Preparations for the Winter Olympic Games 2014 would be one of the most difficult, but Russia has chances for success, head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission Jean-Claude Killy said on Tuesday.

A Moscow court has sentenced a US pastor to more than three years in jail for illegally importing hunting rifle ammunition into Russia.

Birth rate is getting higher and higher in Ukraine. During the first four months this year birth rate has increased by 6 thousand people more comparing the same period last year.

Nineteen sportsmen in Kharkiv region are to take part in 29th summer Olympic Games, as a governor deputy of the regional state administration Yaroslav Yushchenko/ To his information, 13 sportsmen more also received licenses to participate in the 13th Paralympic

A man often described as a "bishop of the poor", former Roman Catholic prelate Fernando Lugo, has won Paraguay's Presidential election.

Police have broken up a fist fight between Greek and Armenian orthodox clergy at one of Christianity's holiest sites in Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses say the scuffles broke out at the city's Church of the Holy Sepulchre after an Armenian priest pushed