NEW YORK, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will attend a meeting of six nations to discuss Iran's nuclear program together with diplomats from several Arab countries at the United Nations on Tuesday, the Russian foreign minister said. The Arab

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's industrial output declined 8.7%, year-on-year, in November, but grew 3.7% over the first 11 months of the year, the country's top statistics body said on Tuesday. Compared with October, industrial output contracted 10.8%,

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian naval group led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, en route to the Mediterranean, conducted a series of training flights over the Celtic Sea, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday. Capt. 1st

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will hold several more test launches of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile next year before a final decision to adopt it for service is made, a senior Navy official said on Tuesday. The

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St. Petersburg have granted their unsettled star Andrei Arshavin permission to speak to other clubs, Russia's Sport Express daily said on Tuesday. Arshavin, 27, was linked with a number of clubs, including Barcelona

VOLGOGRAD, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 37 schoolchildren and one nurse have been hospitalized with acute intestinal infection in central Russia's Volgograd Region, a spokesman for the Russian consumer rights regulator said on Tuesday. The 37 children

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Cuts in the numbers of Russian Interior Ministry troops, which started three years ago, has been suspended, the troops commander said Tuesday. Currently the total number of troops is over 170,000 service personnel. "The

NOVOSIBIRSK, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A villager in southwest Siberia is to take legal action against Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, after a rocket fragment fell on his land, a local administration official said on Tuesday. Boris Urmatov, a shepherd

YEKATERINBURG, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - A suspected drunk driver crashed into ten cars near the Urals city of Yekaterinburg on Tuesday as he attempted to escape from police, a police spokeswoman said. The chase began on the Siberian Passage,

Madonna has paid her ex-husband British director Guy Ritchie up to 60 million pounds ($92 million) to settle their divorce after eight years of marriage, her spokeswoman said on Monday.

Italian police say they have arrested nearly 100 people in anti-Mafia raids across the southern island of Sicily and in the central region of Tuscany.

The third Confucius Institute in Ukraine, co-founded by Anhui University of China and the Kharkiv National University, opened Monday on the latter`s campus, Xinhua reported.

Rhys Jones lost his life because of gang warfare

Alcohol, drugs and knives continue to play a role in the number of homicides in Scotland, according to new figures.

Police investigating the murder of a 62-year-old Armagh widow at her home in October arrest a man in the city.

Just 24 hours after it was launched, an early bird train service is cancelled by engineering works.

Police in Italy say they have arrested nearly 100 people in anti-Mafia raids in Sicily and Tuscany.

An NHS doctor has been convicted of plotting to kill people by carrying out car bomb attacks on central London and Glasgow Airport in 2007.

The sights and sounds of an outdoor ice rink

Five sticks of explosive are disabled in a Paris department store, police say, though they reportedly had no timer.