BEIJING, June 12 (Itar-Tass) - The first-ever spacewalk by a Chinese taikonaut (cosmonaut) will be taken in October this year, the Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday referring to a space progr

PYONGYANG, June 12 (Itar-Tass) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) regards as successful the talks held here this week between Pyongyang and Washin

Moscow, June 11 (Itar-Tass) - Delegates to the 10th jubilee World Congress of the Russian Press, opening here on Wednesday, are to discuss the problems of development of the global Russian-language

TOKYO, June 11 (Itar-Tass) - A meeting of the Group of Eight (G-8) ministers of justice and the interior opens here on Wednesday in preparation for the July G-8 summit due to take place on Hokkaido

INNSBRUCK, Austria, June 11 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian national soccer team have lost their opening match at the 2008 European soccer championship against Spain, 1:4 (0:2).

Moscow, June 11 (Itar-Tass) - The 10th jubilee World Congress of the Russian-Language Press opens at the World Trade Center here on Wednesday.

HELSINKI, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Only a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict is possible, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb said after a meeting of the co

KAZAN, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - An international investment conference of the Islamic Development Bank opens in Tatarstan's capital Kazan on Tuesday.

VILNIUS, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus begins a state visit to Slovakia on Tuesday.

DONETSK, June 10 (Itar-Tass) - Teams of mine-rescue men continued searching for twelve miners who were reported missing in the pits of the Karl Marx coalmine in the East-Ukrainian Donetsk region af