India's acquisition of 126 new medium multi-role combat aircraft will play an essential role in India's transformation from a regional power to a global giant, according to a South Asia expert.

• January 27, 2011

Russia’s parliament approved the first nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States in nearly a decade on Wednesday, voting to ratify the pact at the center of improved ties between the former Cold War foes

• January 27, 2011

Russia called on NATO on Wednesday to launch an investigation into the computer worm that targeted a Russian-built Iranian nuclear power plant, saying the incident could have triggered a new Chernobyl.

• January 27, 2011

The European Union is set to receive gas from the Caspian region within ’two to three years’ after a recent visit to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan produced significant supply pledges, the bloc’s top energy official said Tuesday, Monsters and Critics reported.

• January 26, 2011

A day after an airport suicide bombing that investigators suspect was organized by Islamic militants, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Tuesday vowed retribution. President Dmitri A. Medvedev lashed out at low-ranking subordinates at the airport for failing to stop the attack. A number of initiatives were announced to prevent future terrorist acts.

• January 26, 2011

A suicide bomber attacked Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday, killing dozens of people and injecting new pain into a country already split along ethnic lines.

• January 25, 2011

What should countries do with their nuclear waste? This question has been tormenting scientists and politicians since the early days of nuclear energy. Proposals have ranged from storing radioactive material in polar ice sheets, burying it in the ocean floor, or even blasting it into space.

• January 25, 2011

Uzbek President Islam Karimov will leave for Brussels today up on the invitation of EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Uzbek official media reported.

• January 24, 2011