Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine reported heavy casualties on Tuesday after a second day of fighting with government forces, as authorities in Kiev vowed to continue the military offensive "until not a single terrorist" was left.
A French serviceman has been arrested on charges of having planned an attack against a mosque in Lyon in southern France.
According to Spanish local media, an alleged planning error left the unfinished InTempo apartment towers with lifts for 20 floors.
When Shandong Yongtai Chemical Group bought the British firm Covpress Ltd last month it marked one of China's biggest investments in Britain.
Chinese armored forces advance during the Peace Mission-2013 China-Russia joint military drill in Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Aug 9, 2013.
Syria, arms control and missile defense headline what are expected to be chilly talks between US and Russian officials, a sit-down tainted by the case of US National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
Tian Tian, the Chinese female panda in Edinburgh Zoo, may be pregnant, the zoo revealed on Friday.
No separate meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama was planned at the upcoming Group of Twenty (G20) summit, a Kremlin aide said Friday.
The female panda Tian Tian may be pregnant, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said on Friday.
British retail giant Tesco announced Friday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the China Resources enterprises (CRE) to create a leading multi-format retailer in China.
Balandin says he does not use blueprints and designs the parts as he works on them.
Russia's granting of temporary amnesty to former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden should not be allowed to affect Moscow-Washington ties, a Russian lawmaker said Thursday.
A tourism plane crash has killed three people in Puy-de-Dome, center France, local media reported Thursday.