North Korea postpones talks scheduled with the US-led United Nations Command about the sinking of a South Korean warship.

• July 13, 2010

The multi-billion-dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline is back on India's agenda with the government planning to hold a bilateral meeting in Teheran on the issue after a gap of at least two years.

• July 12, 2010

American politicians often extol natural gas as abundant, cleaner-burning than other fossil fuels, and domestically produced, unlike Middle Eastern oil. But the process of extracting it is raising concerns among people with wells in their backyards.

• July 12, 2010

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski leaves Poland on Monday for a tour of Georgia, Armenia and Kazakhstan.

• July 12, 2010

While Washington and Moscow had their eyes on one another, Beijing stole the prize.

• July 12, 2010

Bulgaria stands to benefit a lot from the construction of the South Stream gas transit pipeline, according to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

• July 10, 2010

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Azerbaijan has no need of building of new hydroelectric power stations (HPS) to increase of share of hydropower industry in power balance of the country 4-fold that became phenomenal progress in development of use of alternative and renewable energy sources.

• July 10, 2010

A round-up of the issue of the week as reported in the media. Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari, boxed in at home, decided it was time to go visitng his dear friends in China once more this past week.

• July 10, 2010