Germans looking to drown their sorrows over skyrocketing gas and food prices are going to have to think again: beer prices are going up, too

Russia's emergencies ministry says a helicopter has crashed in Siberia, killing nine of the 16 people aboard

USA’s major media outlets started paying a lot of their attention to Mongolia recently. The Washington Post published an article in its June 25 issue about Russia’s interest in Mongolian natural resources. The article said that Washington was interested in developing cooperation with Mongolia – a large supplier of uranium. US journalists acknowledged that the ongoing growth of oil prices made the USA look for alternative sources of energy, nuclear sources, first and foremost

More helicopters, surveillance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles are needed in Afghanistan to support the armed forces there

A top German economist on Wednesday said he believes the U.S. dollar's poor performance against the euro could continue for at least two years

A Palestinian bulldozer driver went on a deadly rampage on a busy Jerusalem street Wednesday, plowing into a string of vehicles and pedestrians, killing at least two

An officer wounded in a knife attack at a police station in Shanghai has died, raising the death toll from the violent rampage to six

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has outstripped its rival, Intel, on the market of microprocessors during the first quarter of the current year

The Williams sisters, who between them have won six of the last eight Wimbledon titles, are one round away from a third Wimbledon title matchup and seventh Grand Slam championship showdown

Two four-year-old twin boys, Ilfat and Rifat Zarimovs, were hospitalized for the operation of ritual circumcision. The children were thoroughly examined prior to the operation. Doctors operated Ilfat first, and the operation went through successfully. Rifat died as a result of the operation. “It is a great shock for our hospital,” a senior spokeswoman for the Children’s Republican Hospital of Kazan, Damira Galeyeva said