Medvedev said 1,914 under-age children had died as a result of violent attacks in 2008 and another 12,500 were missing. President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday Russia should take urgent action to protect children from violent crime and sexual abuse, in order to prevent them from joining a growing army …

The cause of the fault has yet to be established, `but the doors of the launch service tower did not open,` said Franco Bonacina of the ESA. The European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday postponed the launch of its most sophisticated Earth observation satellites to date because of a technical …

A separatist official said the economic slump was slowing the reconstruction effort. South Ossetia’s separatist administration said on Monday Russia was failing to honour a pledge to spend millions of dollars repairing the devastation from last year’s war in the breakaway Georgian region. A separatist official said the economic slump …