The Arctic Ocean could be largely ice-free and open to shipping during the summer in as little as ten years' time, a top polar specialist has said.

Fitch Ratings, an international credit rating agency, has affirmed Ukraine's long-term, foreign- and local-currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at B.

The law "On the amending Ukrainian Law "On the state budget for 2009" and some other Ukrainian laws," which oblige the National Bank of Ukraine to channel UAH 9.8 billion for the preparations for Euro 2012, has taken effect.

November is the starting point for Ukraine to get prepared to preside in the Council of Europe set for 2011.

The Kharkov district court banned the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists from holding a rally in the city in honor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the newspaper Gazeta reported on Wednesday

Two U.S. spacecraft were crashed into a lunar crater on Friday but scientists said it was too early to say whether the mission to search for supplies of water on the Moon had been a success.

SBU together with city prosecution office exposed and terminated the activity of the interregional criminal group in the sphere of drugs business. They were of the working officers of the Ministry of Home Affairs major department in Kharkiv region who

Children can be taught to use their imagination to tackle frequent bouts of stomach pain, research shows.

Michael Jackson's new single "This Is It" began streaming online and playing across the radio airwaves Monday, nearly four months after the "king of pop" died of a prescription drug overdose aged 50.

Elinor Ostrom has become the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics since it began in 1968.