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Actress Sienna Miller has visited India as part of a campaign to get people to reduce carbon emissions.

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

Tommy Robredo and Elena Dementieva won their opening matches at the Pilot Pen on Monday, and Americans also made a mark before rain stopped play

Hurricane Dean pounds Jamaica’s south coast, as it continues its path of destruction in the Caribbean.

Nasa shortens a spacewalk by Endeavour’s crew so the shuttle can return early to avoid Hurricane Dean.

Ugandan gays want to be accepted. But still they face regular abuse by police in a country where being gay is punishable by life in prison.

Elvis fans around the world have been paying tribute to the singer on the 30th anniversary of his death.

London’s FTSE 100 falls below the 6,000 level as worries over losses in the US sub-prime lending market persist.

Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy planned to plead guilty in federal court on Wednesday to charges alleging he wagered on games he officiated, a person familiar with the betting scandal probe said.

Financial markets in Asia have faltered, a day after New York and London suffered major losses.

Democratic hopefuls in the US presidential race have taken part in a televised debate focused on gay issues.

A High Court decision is expected on the availability of drugs for treating early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.

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

Drill rigs perched on a steep mountain chewed through sandstone in the U.S. state of Utah to within a few hundred feet early Thursday of six coal miners caught in a collapse 1,500 feet (457 meters) underground, one of the mine’s co-owners said

A new foot-and-mouth case, outside the existing surveillance zone, is suspected in Surrey.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann say they still have hope that she will be found alive.

Rescue crews drilled through to a pocket in the coal mine where six miners have been trapped, but heard no sound through a microphone that was lowered into the collapsed mine

The government and web firms must do more to protect users from online crime, a report has said.

Husayn al-Shahristani, Iraq ’s oil minister said that Russian companies which worked for years in the Iraqi energy industry until the U.S.-led invasion would get no special treatment as earlier oil and gas contracts are reviewed and renegotiated

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 service men have been killed in Iraq, as British troops prepare to hand over security to Iraqi forces.

Raymond Domenech, France coach says Marco Materazzi did the right thing by getting Zinedine Zidane sent off in last year’s World Cup final

Luciano Pavarotti was hospitalized for observation in his hometown of Modena, in northern Italy, hospital officials there said

The passenger plane plunged into the sea near Tahiti moments after take-off from a nearby island and all 20 people on board are feared dead

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.

In 2008, Russian companies and banks are expected to borrow $125 billion in foreign loans. The amount of borrowings equals half of the accumulated debt obligations, which already totals one quarter of Russia’ GDP. Experts warn that the ratio may cause Russian companies to default.

In the Kursk Region of Russia drug addicts caught a boy and tortured him with pliers for several hours. The villains passed themselves for police officials to force the boy to show where the nearest hemp field was.

At the first-ever televised presidential forum devoted to gay rights issues, Democratic candidates focused largely on restating pro-gay stances they have taken throughout the campaign

British Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds said cows in a second area of the southern England county of Surrey had shown “mild clinical signs of infections,” announcing that a new 3-kilometer (1.8-mile) exclusion zone had been set up around a farm previously unlinked to the outbreak

Mirax Group has purchased rights from the architect David Fisher for the construction of rotating skyscrapers in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Electricity generated by wind turbines will allow each of more than 60 floors of the tower to rotate independently.

Cases of West Nile Virus typically start appearing toward the end of the summer, when Northern Illinois sees its warmest temperatures, said Kane County Health Department spokesman Tom Schlueter

In Ukraine’s Black Sea port was discovered a World War II mine as a U.S. Navy ship called for a visit

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”

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is under growing U.S. pressure to crack down on militants along the border with Afghanistan

Coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans are vanishing faster than had previously been thought, a study shows.

One of the world’s most famous fossils leaves Ethiopia for a controversial tour of US museums.

Microbes locked in Antarctic ice for as much as eight million years have been “resuscitated” in a laboratory.

A freshwater dolphin found only in China is now “likely to be extinct”, a team of scientists concludes.

An expedition to a remote forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo uncovers six new animal species.

Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Cape Canaveral on an assembly mission to the International Space Station.