986 Stories, most recent news story added Tue Nov 24, 5:07 pm ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development plans to invest $400 million in Georgia next year, including a project to improve a port bombed during the former Soviet republic’s August 2008 war with Russia.
At the annual Eurovision contest for 10- to 15-year-olds, Europe's powerroles are reversed -- the former Soviet republics are the top dogs and theWest finds itself totally upstaged
BY SHAHIN ABBASOV First came oil. Now comes space. Flush with energy revenues, Officials in Baku are intent on launching Azerbaijan's first satellite by 2011.
GAINESVILLE — A delegation of physicians from Russia recently visited Northeast Georgia Medical Center to learn more about the hospital’s perinatal services provided through the Labor & Delivery, Mother Baby and Neonatal Intensive Care units.
Nordqvist captures LPGA Tour Championship ... Djokovic wins; Soderling again tops Nadal ... Syracuse marks big rankings move ... Rams' Bulger out with broken shinbone ... Sports news from United Press International.
VIOLENT NATURE The U.S. ambassador to Greece worries that countries along the western region of the Balkan Peninsula are still a boiling caldron of unrest 10 years after wars ravaged the area and changed the political landscape. "While enormous progress has been made, the Western Balkans remains one of the last regions in Europe where there is potential for people to turn to violence to solve ...
A French navy ship of the type that Russia hopes to buy arrived Monday for a visit to St. Petersburg, fueling concern in Georgia and other ex-Soviet nations that it may be used to intimidate its neighbors.
We know that the surface of the earth is approximately 197 million square miles, 70 percent of which is covered by water, and another 5.5 million square miles represented by icebound Antarctica.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men AP Top Twenty Five Record Pts Pvs 1. Kansas (56) 3-0 1,613 1 2. Michigan St. (7) 4-0 1,538 2 3. Texas (1) 2-0 1,439 3 4. Villanova 5-0 1,397 5 5. Kentucky 4-0 1,333 4 6. Purdue 3-0 1,314 7 7. Duke 4-0 1,163 9 8. West Virginia 1-0 1,133 8 9. Tennessee 4-0 1,040 10 10. Syracuse (1) 4-0 1,013 – 11. North Carolina 4-1 914 6 12. Butler 3-0 872 11 13. Connecticut 3-0 850 12 14 ...
A French navy ship of the type that Russia hopes to buy has arrived for a visit to St. Petersburg. The Mistral amphibious assault ship docked Monday on the Neva River downtown, close to the Hermitage museum.
CHICAGO----
For the second consecutive year, a University undergraduate is among the nationally selected recipients of the George J. Mitchell Postgraduate Scholarship. Stephen Dorner, an Honors student from Alpharetta, will use his fellowship to earn a master's degree in global health at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland during the 2010-2011 academic year.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Three men from the Slovak Republic and two U.S. residents were arrested and accused of conspiring to procure weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, the U.S. Justice Department said today.
CHICAGO----Fitch Ratings has placed its 'D' Individual ratings for Bank of America Corp. and its operating subsidiaries on Rating Watch Positive. Fitch has affirmed the Issuer Default Ratings of BAC and its subsidiaries, which are derived from U.S. government support and continue to carry a Stable Rating Outlook.
The Nabucco pipeline is a planned natural gas pipeline from Caspian and the Middle East region to Turkey and finally to Austria. The aim of this pipeline is diversifying the current natural gas suppliers and delivery routes for Europe. The project is backed by several European states and the United States. -Bahman Aghai Diba
Moscow (UPI) Nov 20, 2009 - Russia's Strategic Missile Forces will begin operating a second regiment armed with Topol-M mobile missile systems by the end of the year.
Open slideshowAFP/Pool/File
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
