Russia
John Kerry met with Russian officials in Geneva on Thursday to broker a treaty that would prompt the disposal of Syria's chemical weapons under international supervision.
The White House shot back at Russian President Vladimir Putin who lashed out against President Obama's call for military intervention in Syria in an unusual op-ed published in the New York Times Thursday.
Russia will look to take back first place in Group F of the World Cup qualifiers when it takes on Israel on Tuesday.
PBS will air Charlie Rose's exclusive interview with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Sept. 9 at 9 p.m. In the interview, Assad denies his involvement in the deadly chemical weapons attack that left more than one thousand Syrians dead.
Russia will look to seize control of Group F when it takes on lowly Luxembourg in the World Cup 2014 Qualifiers.
The FIBA EuroBasket 2013 is about to take center stage on Wednesday as 24 of the finest basketball nations across Europe gather in Slovenia to fight for the available spots in next year's FIBA World Cup of Basketball and the title as the continent's best team.
In the wake of NSA agent Edward Snowden's revelations that government project PRISM allows the government to tap phone calls, email, and web browsing of any citizen without a warrant, private internet customers are increasingly turning to Tor, an anonymity network that allows people to securely browse without fear of being hacked.
"Prison Break" star Wentworth Miller came out as gay in a letter rejecting his invite to the St. Petersburg International Film Festival due to Russia's recently passed anti-gay legislation.
Area 51, the infamous remote patch of desert in Southern Nevada, was declassified today by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and George Washington University's National Securities Archive. Long synonymous amongst conspiracy theorists with alien spacecraft and government cover-ups, the documentation on the site reveals a far blander reality. The site was nothing more than a testing ground for Lockheed U-2 surveillance planes.
While it appears that the Edward Snowden saga triggered President Obama to cancel a planned summit meeting in Moscow next month with Russian President Vladimir Putin, analysts say that the president simply did not want to waste time knowing that nothing worthwhile could be accomplished between the two leaders if he made such a trip.
Russia announced that it will not subject athletes and guests attending the 2014 Winter Olympics to its stringent new anti-gay law.
The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday that includes a provision which threatens to sanction any country that agrees to grant asylum to National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Rising from humble beginnings in central Russia, Valentina Tereshkova landed the job of a lifetime in Soviet Russia, becoming the first woman in space 50 years ago on Sunday.
On Friday, April 19, a Russian experiment saw a group of animals being launched into orbit for a month-long project that aims to find out how space travelling affects living creatures.
The new animal astronauts launched into orbit Friday atop a Russian-built Soyuz 2 rocket that lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, in Central Asia. The rocket carried the Bion-M1 space capsule, which is expected to spend a month in orbit, flying 357 miles above Earth.
