Russian Prime Minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin will meet US President Barack Obama if he goes to a G8 summit at Camp David, US, in May, Putin's spokesman said.

The G8 summit will be held M

Moscow has not told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to leave Syria and take refuge in Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"Nobody invited him to Moscow," Lavrov said, answering a question o

Japan will deploy missile interceptors on a southern island chain ahead of a planned North Korean satellite launch in April, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported on Tuesday.

The defense ministry will ta

A Russian court on Tuesday reserved its verdict till Wednesday on the ban on a translated version of the Bhagvad Gita for being ‘extremist’, a case that drew a flurry of criticism from Hindus across t

The Japanese armed forces could shoot down North Korea's satellite, planned to be launched next month, if the need arises, a Japanese daily has quoted the country's Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka as sa

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will allocate 28 billion euro (over $36 billion) to support Greece's economic programme over the next four years, the IMF has said.

The Washington-based fund sai

Questions are emerging over Vladimir Putin's famous encounter with a tigress three years ago.

Environmentalist Dmitry Molodtsov says the animal that Putin shot with a tranquilizer gun and tagged with

A Russian man took a woman hostage and demanded a lethal injection to die in front of TV cameras in a bid "to fight dark forces in the underworld", police said.

The incident took place Tuesday in Mar

Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow NATO use of a southern Russian air base as a hub for transport of supplies to Afghanistan and suggested it was premature to withdraw

Unidentified gangsters have stolen 5.6 million roubles intended for the salary of workers of the territorial election committee in south-eastern Moscow, a source in the Moscow law enforcement agencies