Russia’s largest air show in post-Soviet history, MAKS-2007, opened yesterday, to display the growing military power of the nation and seek lucrative deals. President Vladimir Putin, who recently ordered to resume the flights of long-range bombers to patrol the world’s oceans, stressed Russia’s prominence in production of military aircraft
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Tommy Robredo and Elena Dementieva win opening matches at the Pilot Pen
August 20, 2007
Hurricane batters Jamaica’s south
August 19, 2007
Hurricane fears shorten spacewalk
August 18, 2007
Ugandan gays defend their rights
August 17, 2007
Global tributes to Elvis
August 16, 2007
Heavy losses sweep world markets
August 15, 2007
Ex-NBA ref Donaghy to plead guilty for wagered on games he officiated
August 10, 2007
US Democrats on gay rights
Alzheimer’s drugs decision due
A High Court decision is expected on the availability of drugs for treating early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.
An earthquake hits the northern Los Angeles area
An earthquake hit the northern Los Angeles area just before 1 a.m. ( 4 a.m. EDT ) on Thursday, waking residents across a broad swathe of the area, but there were no immediate reports of significant damage
Rescuers in Utah close in on trapped coal miners
Drill reaches depth in a collapsed Utah mine
Iraqi oil minister says no special oil and gas contracts for Russia
Unmanned aerial robots to patrol Russian airspace in 2011
State-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) should enter service with the Russian air force by 2011, according to Lieutenant General Alexander Zelin, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force. Lieut. Gen. Zelin recently spoke with reporters about the new weapons the Russian military will receive in the near future.
Two British troops die in Iraq
Opera star Luciano Pavarotti hospitalized in Italy
Luciano Pavarotti was hospitalized for observation in his hometown of Modena, in northern Italy, hospital officials there said
Passenger plane plunged into the sea near Tahiti
Quality of the defense
Trade and Industry Chamber together with the Federal Service on the Defense Order signed the agreement providing for joint distribution of the state defense order. Eugeny Primakov and Sergey Maev, the heads of the two organizations respectively, are sure that this measure will help to raise the efficiency of the defense order. Eugeny Primakov emphasized that the Defense Order Service has become the first institutions which arranged a comprehensive system of quality control.
Russian companies may default because of huge corporate debt
Drug addicts tortured teenager to make him show hemp field
The first televised presidential forum devoted to gay rights issues
British authorities tests for a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease
Rotating housing estates to be built in Moscow and St. Petersburg
West Nile virus prompts worries
WWII mine discovered in Black Sea port as U.S. Navy ship visits
Shuttle Endeavour heads for international space station with teacher aboard
On Wednesday, once Endeavour was safely past the 73-second mark of the flight, the moment when Challenger exploded, Mission Control exclaimed that Morgan - McAuliffe’s backup for Challenger - was “racing toward space on the wings of a legacy”
President George W. Bush prods Musharraf to hold free presidential elections
August 9, 2007
Swifter decline for coral reefs
Famous fossil Lucy starts US tour
One of the world’s most famous fossils leaves Ethiopia for a controversial tour of US museums.
Ancient microbes ‘revived’ in lab
Rare river dolphin ‘now extinct’
A freshwater dolphin found only in China is now “likely to be extinct”, a team of scientists concludes.
Lost forest reveals new species
Endeavour heads for space station
Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Cape Canaveral on an assembly mission to the International Space Station.