Reaction to Wednesday's announcement by Premier League champions Manchester United that manager Alex Ferguson will retire at the end of the season:
David Gill, Manchester United chief executive, in a statement: "We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by (...)
Zenit dominated for much of the match but Eto'o's goal on 61 minutes, combined with some notable saves by Anzhi goalkeeper Vladimir Gabulov helped Guus Hiddink's team prevail.
Anzhi will play CSKA Moscow, who beat Rostov 2-0 on Tuesday, in the final on June 1 in Grozny, capital of the Chechnya (...)
A delegation of Egyptian ministers has headed to Moscow this morning ahead of the Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's visit to the country within the upcoming days.
The delegation includes ministers of Investment Dr. Osama Saleh, of Petroleum Eng. Osama Kamal alongside of Agriculture Dr. Salah Abdel (...)
Bolt will compete against French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre in the ninth leg of the Diamond League. It will be the fourth time in five years Bolt has run in the meet, although he missed last year.
He beat Lemaitre at the meet in 2011.
Bolt, the 200 world record-holder, has won the last two world (...)
U.S. stocks finished slightly lower Monday on the lightest volume trading day of 2013, as energy and retail shares underperformed and investors reassessed a rally that's lifted benchmark indexes 6% this year.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average never rose above its Friday close and ended down 21.73 (...)
Premier League side West Brom rejected Queens Park Rangers' request to acquire the services of team's Nigerian striker PeterOdemwingie during this winter transfer window.
The Nigerian striker, who is linked with West Bromuntil 2014, has expressed his desire to leave the Baggies as he wants to leave (...)
Gunmen shot dead an Islamic cleric in the internal Russian republic of North Ossetia, investigators said on Thursday, an attack that suggests militant Islamist violence in Russia's southern Muslim provinces is spreading to nearby regions.
Shootings and bomb attacks on police and officials are a (...)
Benfica missed out on a place in the last 16 of the Champions League when they were held to a 0-0 draw by a weakened Barcelona to finish third behind Celtic in Group G on Wednesday.
Celtic won 2-1 at home to Spartak Moscow to finish with 10 points, three behind already qualified Barca. Benfica had (...)
A weapons designer at a Russian defense industry enterprise that makes rifles, grenade launchers and other arms was shot dead on a city street in a contract-style killing, law enforcement authorities and media reports said.
The deputy chief designer at the research and production facility in Tula, (...)
Lionel Messi scores two more to make it 80 goals in 2012 as holders Chelsea are on brink of being kicked out of the Champions League
Barcelona eased to a 3-0 win at Spartak Moscow, with Dani Alves and Messi doing the job for the Catalans.
In Turin, Juventus produced a stunning display to thrash (...)
Barcelona fullback Daniel Alves opened the scoring in the 16th minute in Moscow and Messi added two more in the space of 12 minutes before halftime with his 79th and 80th goals during this calendar year.
The Spaniards, who now have 12 points from five games, controlled the tempo with their passing (...)
A drunken man racing at 200 kilometres (125 miles) per hour through Moscow traffic killed seven children on Saturday after slamming into a bus stop and dragging it a part of the way down the block.
The emergencies ministry said all the victims -- three boys and four girls -- were teenagers who were (...)
Tens of thousands of Russian opposition supporters thronged the streets of Moscow on Saturday to keep up the momentum of their challenge to Vladimir Putin's rule four months into his new mandate.
A diverse sea of protesters brandishing the red flags of socialism, nationalist tricolours or liberal (...)
Seven Russian soldiers were killed in a brawl in Russia's region of Dagestan in the northern Caucasus on Tuesday.
A soldier, in a Russian special forces unit based in the southern city of Derbent, committed what is known as fragging, when he turned on six of his fellow soldiers, killing them and (...)
MOSCOW: he conviction of three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot on August 17, 2012, is inappropriate and disproportionate, Human Rights Watch said today. The three women were convicted on charges of hate-motivated hooliganism and sentenced to two years in prison.
The three women (...)
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin named several trusted former cabinet ministers to Kremlin posts on Tuesday, asserting his authority in a move likely to weaken Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's new government and undermine its mandate for change.
Bluntly showing who is in charge, Putin (...)
Some 200 activists have camped out in central Moscow to protest the election of Vladimir Putin and arrests of opposition leaders.
Activists on Friday were distributing white ribbons, the protest symbol, and settling in at a plaza on a central boulevard.
Street protests in Moscow erupted on (...)
Protesters against Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin have clashed with police in the capital Moscow, ahead of Putin's inauguration on Monday for a third term.
The protest was peaceful until a small group of demonstrators tried to break through the lines of riot police.
Reports say opposition (...)
Russian scientists have developed a "mind-reading" machine that converts thoughts into actions. The device is already being used to help paralyzed patients.
“This technology helps people who are paralyzed to communicate with the outside world”, Aleksandr Kaplan, a psychophysiologist, explains.
The (...)
Muscovites visited Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum on Sunday to lay flowers at the tomb of the Russian Bolshevik leader amid celebrations of his birthday – 22 April.
Communist Party representatives and others carried red flags, flowers and posters to the mausoleum.
Sociologists note that the number of (...)
Opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov started a hunger strike on Thursday after being sentenced to 10 days in jail for disobeying the police following a rally against Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Another Moscow court handed fellow protest leader Alexei Navalny a 1,000-rouble ($34) fine for refusing (...)
MOSCOW (dpa): Police were out in force on the streets of Moscow on Saturday ahead of an expected mass demonstration in protest at alleged vote-rigging in Vladimir Putin's presidential election victory.
Officials erected crush barriers and installed metal detectors in the area near the Kremlin (...)
MOSCOW (dpa): Moscow police detained a political activist during an opposition rally on Saturday after he called for demonstrators to move to a square in the city not on the official protest route.
Sergei Udaltsov, one of the rally organizers and head of the Left Front movement, was held for (...)
Moscow City Hall has authorized up to 50,000 opposition activists to rally on the downtown Novy Arbat Street on Saturday to protest the results of the March 4 presidential elections, leftist leader Sergei Udaltsov said on his Twitter on Wednesday.
Between 14,000 and 20,000, according to various (...)
The Vostok research base in Antarctica is located in the coldest place on Earth.
Ice cores drilled at the site provide valuable information on the Earth's climate history.
“The main research was to drill the glacier ice; as deep as possible to get these tiny bubbles of air, which was preserved for (...)