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Russia's St. Basil's Cathedral turned 450 today after a decade-long restoration that cost nearly 13.8 million dollars.

Five neo-Nazi gang members face life in prison after being convicted of 27 brutal, racially charged murders

Millions of people go whale watching each year in countries around the world, but concerns have been raised that the burgeoning tourist industry could be negatively affecting the whales.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has launched a criminal investigation into the sinking of the Bulgaria, but it will do little to stop further tragedies.

Today, Russia's flamboyant national symbol, St. Basil's Cathedral, turns 450 years old.

Divers searching for victims in a sunken tourist boat in Russia’s Volga River have found approximately 40 children, the highest death toll for children in Russia since a 2004 terrorist attack.

China could begin testing its first aircraft carrier within weeks and is developing more advanced satellites Reuters reports.

Google has commemorated the 450th anniversary of St. Basil's with a Google doodle on its main search page.

Taliban has claimed responsibility for killing Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother Ahmad Wali Karzai and also named the assassin as Sardar Ahmad, Voice of Russia reported, quoting the spokesman of the militant group.

The newest country in the world is set to get its own currency and to join the United Nations.

A 50 year-old cruise ship in Russia's Volga River capsized Sunday, killing at least 50 people

A Russian double-deck cruise cruise ship that sank in Volga River on Sunday claimed more than 100 lives, with several people still missing.

At least 13 people are dead and more than 100 remained missing after a Russian boat sank in the Volgar River on Sunday.

The 2011 Billionaires List (25th annual Ranking) compiled by the Forbes Magazine has broken two records. First, the total number of listed billionaires (1,210) and the combined amount of their wealth ($4.5 trillion).scarlett johansson wallpaper, utorrentbleach wallpaper...

Krokodil or Crocodile in Russian is a homemade substitute of heroin, which is casting deathly shadows over the lives of thousands of Russia's drug addicts. It has a reptilian name because the users' skin starts developing crocodile-like unpleasant scales, over repeated use. And that is arguably the least this deadly drug can do to your body. The scales would give way to decaying sores and gray skin. The flesh would soon start to degenerate and would peel away leaving bones exposed....

The last space shuttle flight does not mean the end of NASA sending humans into space. However, the era of big-ticket space projects that occurred during the Cold War is undoubtedly over, at least until the United States has eliminated its more than $14 trillion national debt.

The 2011 Billionaires List (25th annual Ranking) compiled by the Forbes Magazine has broken two records. First, the total number of listed billionaires (1,210) and the combined amount of their wealth ($4.5 trillion).

Time Inc.'s Fortune magazine released its annual World's largest corporations ranked by revenue that appeared in its annual Fortune Global 500 list.

Thanks to a single, female ancestor -- a brown bear from Ireland, who lived around 20,000 to 50,000 years ago - polar bears can now know where they came from, a study in the latest version of Current Biology shows.

The Irish brown bear is the mother of all polar bears. At least that's what a study in the latest version of Current Biology shows.

With the final U.S. space shuttle mission set to blast off on Friday, Russian vehicles will be the only option for American astronauts.