Tbilisi/Moscow - Georgian President Miheil Saakashvili on Friday refused to quit, despite around 100,000 protestors nationwide demanding he leave his job. "The government is ready for a dialogue with all political powers, moderate or radical," Saakashvili said in a national television address.
Moscow, April 9 : A team at archaeologists, working at Egypt's Fayoum Oasis, have uncovered a number of mummies wearing golden masks, as well as other artifacts of historical value.
According to Russian News Agency RIA Novosti, a group of Russian archaeologists working in the Fayoum province, some 80km southwest of Cairo, since 2003, have made the findings.
The team has been carrying out excavations at the Deir Al-Banat necropolis for the past two years.
Baghdad - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday left Baghdad for Moscow at the beginning of a tour of European countries that Baghdad hopes will drum up investment in Iraq.
Al-Maliki hopes to sign two agreements on economic cooperation between Iraq and Russia over the course of his three-day visit to the country, according to a government statement run in Baghdad's al- Sabbah newspaper Thursday morning.
He is also expected to discuss the return to Iraq of Russian companies, particularly those working in petroleum, water, and electric infrastructure, the newspaper said.
Moscow - Two astronauts from the United States and Russia and a space tourist left the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday morning onboard a Soyuz space capsule to return to Earth.
The flight centre near Moscow reported that Soyuz undocked from ISS Wednesday morning and is expected to land in the Kazakhstan steppe around 0716 GMT, the Interfax news agency said.
On board are Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, US astronaut Micheael Fincke as well as Charles Simonyi, a space tourist also from the US.
Moscow, Apr. 7 : As Russia''s Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, earns 11 per cent more than President Dmitry Medvedev, says a Kremlin declaration.
In 2008 Putin earned 4.6 million rouble (94,000 pounds), 11 per cent more than the 4.14 million roubles declared by Medvedev, statement''s posted on their respective web sites showed.
Both men earn over 18 times Russia''s average wage of 230,000 roubles per year, reports The Telegraph.
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday called for a two-state solution in the Middle East following talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Moscow.
"We continue to support the establishment of a separate Palestinian state," Medvedev said, according to Russia's Itar-Tass news agency.
The Kremlin chief again announced plans for a Middle East conference in Moscow, for which a date has yet to be set, saying the conference could mark "the next step towards a solution to the conflict."
Tbilisi/Moscow - Georgian President Miheil Saakashvili on Friday refused to quit, despite around 100,000 protestors nationwide demanding he leave his job. "The government is ready for a dialogue with all political powers, moderate or radical," Saakashvili said in a national television address.
Moscow, April 9 : A team at archaeologists, working at Egypt's Fayoum Oasis, have uncovered a number of mummies wearing golden masks, as well as other artifacts of historical value.
Baghdad - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday left Baghdad for Moscow at the beginning of a tour of European countries that Baghdad hopes will drum up investment in Iraq.
Moscow - Two astronauts from the United States and Russia and a space tourist left the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday morning onboard a Soyuz space capsule to return to Earth.
Moscow, Apr. 7 : As Russia''s Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, earns 11 per cent more than President Dmitry Medvedev, says a Kremlin declaration.
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday called for a two-state solution in the Middle East following talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Moscow.
