NASA said Tuesday it will pay $424 million more to Russia for giving US astronauts a lift to the International Space Station. [caption id="attachment_30513" align="alignright" width="369"] NASA Russia Space Program[/caption] The hefty bill ...

A Russian court paved the way for a potential closure of the video-sharing website YouTube by banning an anti-Islam video on Monday that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. Moscow's Tverskoy Court ruled that the ...

The government is working on an alternative plan to finance the $1.5 billion Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline as hopes for funding from Russia fade in the face of mounting pressure from the US to stop the project, says a senior government official....

Russia A Russian passenger plane with 43 people on board crashed in Siberia on Monday, killing at least 16 people while 12 survivors were rescued, an emergency official said....

Vladimir Putin won a resounding victory in Russia's presidential election on Sunday, exit polls showed, securing a new six-year term in the Kremlin and a mandate to deal with opposition protests after a vote that opponents said was marred by fraud....

A Russian company has unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a 'space hotel' in orbit 217 miles up which would have huge windows for views of the Earth turning below. A five-day stay in the hotel, which would ...

Russia pressed ahead Wednesday with its drive to revive the stalled nuclear talks between Iran and Western powers after the Islamic state's president said he backed Moscow's new crisis proposals. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ...

Russia on Tuesday celebrated the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first human space flight.On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union made history as they sent 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin into space in their Vostok rocket, as he became the first man to go into outer space....

A briefing given by the then director general of military operations, Ahmed Shuja Pasha, to parliamentarians has been characterised as being supportive of the US....

Leaders from Japan and Russia will likely hold talks at an Asia-Pacific summit in mid-November, Japan's top government spokesman said on Tuesday, despite a diplomatic row over disputed islands that both nations claim....