Rosneft, Russia's largest oil producer has asked for more than 2 trillion rubles from the country's National Wealth Fund.
China is seen as North Korea's principal backer at the UN, but its backing is far from assured, according to a leading UN investigator.
The incident occurred just days after a mysterious foreign vessel was spotted in Swedish waters.
McDonald's Chief Executive Officer Don Thompson owned up to some corporate image problems on Tuesday after it posted a nearly one-third drop in quarterly profit and warned its global restaurant sales would fall again in October.
A late penalty from CSKA Moscow salvaged a 2-2 draw with Manchester City in the Russian capital.
They're banned by half the world, but both Ukraine and separatists, to a less degree, used the indiscriminately destructive weapons.
The deal aims to resume Russian gas flows to Ukraine after Moscow turned off the taps in June.
Iran has diluted about 9,000 pounds of enriched uranium down to the level of natural uranium, the IAEA reportedly said.
The collision occurred minutes before midnight Moscow time as de Margerie's Dassault Falcon jet was taking off for Paris.
Poland's parliamentary speaker, Radoslaw Sikorski, has been quoted as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland's then leader in 2008 that they divide Ukraine between themselves.
Miss Ostland 2014, a beauty contest hosted by a pro-Hitler group on VKontakte, was suspended Sunday.
The missile used by pro-Russian separatists to hit the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was seized from Ukraine's army, says a German report.
Talks on resolving the Ukraine conflict go nowhere as fighting around the Donetsk airport intensifies.
The Swedish military has been searching the Baltic Sea since Friday, following “credible information” about foreign underwater activity.
Britain's future in the 28-country trading bloc has been thrown into question by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Up to 200 members of Sweden's military are scouring the waters near Stockholm for suspected 'foreign underwater activity'.
Russia cut off gas supply to Ukraine in mid-June following more than two years of dispute on the price.
The credit of Russia's government is hovering just above "junk" status as rich Russians dump the ruble for stronger currencies.
European leaders, at a EU-Asia summit, urged Russia to do more to end constant, deadly violations of a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that he met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Europe summit on Thursday in Milan.
The biggest oil producer in the Middle East can stop the Islamic State group from becoming richer. Here's how.
The demonstration was another of the activist group's trademark topless protests.