VILNIUS - Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom has sent a letter to the Lithuanian government demanding $140 million in payouts for a unprofitable power plant. The gas company bought the po...

• 11 March 2010

Every year at the National People’s Congress, China’s top brass insists that Taiwan belongs to China. But this year there was also great praise for the way cross-strait relations were developing, especially economically.

• 10 March 2010

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US Vice President Joe Biden condemned Israeli plans for new settlements as a hurdle for the peace process. It comes as Israel and the Palestinians had just agreed to proximity talks.

• 10 March 2010

Oligarch Boris Berezovsky wins his libel case over claims he was behind the murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.

• 10 March 2010

BAKU, March 10 (Itar-Tass) - Poland considers its relations with South Caucasian countries strategic, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. In his meeting with Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasi-zade on Wednesday, Tusk said, ?For long years

• 10 March 2010

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says it is the US, not Tehran, that is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan.

• 10 March 2010

Greek prime minister to ask Obama for greater regulation to prevent financial speculation.

• 9 March 2010

India's government presented the Women's Reservation Bill to the upper house of parliament on Monday, 14 years after it was first proposed.

• 9 March 2010