RUSSIA

In Syria, anti-government protesters continue undeterred as President Bashar al-Assad intensifies his forceful crackdown against demonstrations. Over the last five days, at least 76 people have been killed in the northern cities of Homs and Hama and in the southern Daraa region, according to activist reports.

This week, China has plans to launch its first prototype of a future space station. Being the third nation to send a person to space, China leaves the rest of the world anxious for their launch event.

Kudrin has warned that runaway spending will endanger the whole Russian economy, which he had overseen since 2000.

Vladimir Putin confirmed he will seek the Russian presidency in an election next March.

Typhoon Nesat slammed the Philippines on Tuesday, flooding parts of the capital of Manila and killing at least 12 people nationwide.

European government officials and financial institutions are starting to make dramatic steps needed to manage their way through a debt crisis that threatens to drag the world economy into recession.

Putin, who leads the dominant United Russia Party, is almost guaranteed of victory .

Particles that were blasted by the sun during a powerful solar flare on Saturday have reached Earth, which will illuminate the Northern Lights in some regions and may also interrupt radio and GPS signals.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's proclamation that he will again run for President has angered his longtime Finance Minister, Alexei Kudrin. On Saturday, Kudrin responded by saying that Putin's decision will not allow me to be a part of the new government.

A group of five leading emerging economies that has banded together to increase their global clout is again struggling to find common ground.

Even as G-20 leaders grapple with the global financial crisis, a larger, over-arching concern is limiting GDP growth in the U.S., and, to a lesser degree, in other developed economies and, by extension, decreasing the capacity of the these nations to counteract the crisis: inadequate wage growth.

Vladimir Putin confirmed he will seek the Russian presidency in an election next March.

Ahmadinejad said Iran and Russia are “neighbors” and that “neighbors must be friends with one another.

Ending the ongoing speculations in Russia over the next presidential candidate from the ruling United Russia party, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday accepted President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to stand for president in March 2012.

Facts about GOP contender Gary Johnson.

There was a new face at the Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. on Thursday: Gary Johnson. But who is this presidential candidate who has remained out of public sight for so long?

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have increased by 45 per cent in the past two decades and reached an all-time high in 2010, says a report.

Washington D.C. is owed $340,000

A global banking crisis will erupt unless Europe properly deals with Greece's debt problems, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday, notably hardening his criticism of European authorities.

Don't have the time to pour over U.S. economic data and related reports? Well, for a quick-read on the U.S. economy, monitor the price of oil and General Electric's (GE) stock price.

A meeting of emerging economies on Thursday will consider a Brazilian proposal to buy European bonds to help crisis-hit euro zone countries, South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday.