A car bomb in the Croatian capital Zagreb has killed Ivo Pukanic, the owner of a leading weekly newspaper, and his colleague.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to offer a $16.5bn (£10.4bn) loan to Ukraine and has agreed an as yet undisclosed package with Hungary.

The first officially sanctioned sale of ivory in southern Africa for almost a decade opens on Tuesday.

Russia and Vietnam will sign on Monday a major package of bilateral documents on cooperation, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.

The head of the University of Central Arkansas said Monday "our campus is safe" after a shooting left two students dead and a third person wounded. Police said there was no ongoing threat and that they were questioning two people.

The Kyiv Central Geophysical Observatory at the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency has publicized results of its study into air pollution in the Ukrainian capital.

A Russian communist group has attacked the newest Bond girl, Olga Kurylenko, for her "moral and intellectual betrayal" in starring in a film about the "enemy of the Soviet people."

A Soyuz-TMA-12 space capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American space tourist landed in north-central Kazakhstan at 9.37 a.m. (03:37 GMT) on Friday.

At least 135 people have been killed after an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude hit Balochistan province in south-western Pakistan, officials say.

Saltovske tram depot is on strike.

The U.S. intelligence budget rose more than 9 percent in fiscal 2008 to total $47.5 billion from $43.5 billion the year before, the director of national intelligence said on Tuesday.

Pilgrimage to Sitenko Kharkiv pathology institute. Here an off-cite attendance of child surgeon from Saint-Petersburg was taking place. A real queue is standing at his cabinet: people from Lugansk, Mariupol, Kharkiv and even Russian Belgorod.

Three of the world's leading internet companies have agreed on a code of conduct to help determine the kind of information they should be sharing with governments and protect the rights of individuals.

The Beatles' songs are to feature in a video game for the first time.

The value of worldwide U.S. arms deals soared nearly 50 percent last year to $24.8 billion from $16.7 billion in 2006, according to a newly released report for the U.S. Congress.

A new film depicting the life and times of the Prophet Muhammad is to begin shooting soon, its producer has said.

Rescue workers have pulled 23 bodies from a mine in northern China wrecked by a gas explosion and are still searching for another 6 missing men, state media said on Friday.

Twenty people died and 21 others were hospitalized in an accident on board a Russian nuclear submarine in the Sea of Japan, the Navy said on Sunday.

A group of Muscovite explorers have warned that Red Square and the Kremlin could sink into the earth due to large underground cracks, Russian media reported on Friday.

Armed gunmen in speedboats have kidnapped and threatened to kill 10 crew members from an oil vessel off the West African state of Cameroon.