India will have to wait for much longer than it had hoped to play kitty party with the group of five emerging economies and draw support from a common currency pool.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh walks into the summit meeting of the world’s 20 most powerful economies in the Baltic port city of St.

In a potential direct challenge to the IOC and the Olympics, judo federation chief Marius Vizer plans to organise a global world championships every four years for all international sports federations

For years, kopek-pinching Soviets sat down in a cheap restaurant in a former mansion of the nobility for plain meals, unaware of the treasure secreted nearby.

Workers restoring the building this week

A St. Petersburg woman barricaded herself in her apartment, throwing glassware and spraying tear gas at bailiffs who arrived to take her 11 dogs away and let her parents return home, authorities said.

A very rich dog, which inherited $12 million from US hotelier Leona Helmsley, has died, a spokeswoman for the deceased hotel mogul’s trust said. Helmsley, who owned the Helmsley hotel chain, left $12 million to care for her beloved Maltese named Trouble when she died in 2007. A judge reduced the amount to $2 million.

The people of Russia's St. Petersburg city on Sunday celebrated Easter by serving a three-tonne Easter cake known as ‘kulich’.

Kulich is an important part of Russian Easter dinner, along with coloure