Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev started his visit to Brazil on Wednesday, February 20th. Medvedev had a meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Due to the injury that Rousseff received at the carnival, the Brazilian president was wearing only one shoe. On her other foot, Rousseff had a rubber sandal, which gave an informal touch to the official meeting.

• February 21, 2013

The United States is locked in a tight race with China and Russia to build destructive cyberweapons capable of seriously damaging other nations’ critical infrastructure, according to a leading expert on hostilities waged via the Internet.

• February 20, 2013

Adding a new dimension to their strategic ties, India and the UK today decided to start negotiations on a civil nuclear pact to facilitate entry of British companies into emerging atomic power sector here.

• February 19, 2013

Russia will continue its active role in the political and diplomatic settlement of conflicts in the CIS area.

• February 19, 2013

Kim Kwang-jin says that when he worked for North Korea's state insurance company in Singapore in 2003, he stuffed $20 million into two suitcases one day and sent it to Pyongyang as a special gift for then leader Kim Jong-il.

• February 18, 2013

Iran does not want nuclear weapons but if it did, no world power could prevent it from obtaining one, local media quoted the country's Supreme Leader as saying on Saturday, Feb 16.

• February 16, 2013

The Iran nuclear crisis has now reached a new and potentially dangerous equilibrium between stiff Western sanctions on the one hand and the rapid progress of Iran's nuclear program on the other.

• February 15, 2013

Oddball, outlandish and eternally secretive, the country has provided a rich seam of humour for the world's comedians.

• February 15, 2013