The United States, which recently concluded its strategic dialogues with Pakistan and China, has said that India is its indispensable ally and will be one of the defining partnerships for America in the 21st century.

• May 31, 2010

Russia’s banks and the ruble can withstand shocks triggered by the euro area’s sovereign debt crisis, central bank chairman Sergei Ignatiev said.

• May 28, 2010

Russia has discovered a new ideology in its foreign policy: money.

• May 27, 2010

BP says a bid to plug its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is going to plan, but it is too early to know if it will work.

• May 27, 2010

Russia will resume talks to join the World Trade Organisation next month, a year after suspending them to create a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

• May 27, 2010

Air India workers call off a two-day strike that left tens of thousands of passengers stranded after a court request.

• May 27, 2010

India's state-run airline Air India cancels 76 flights on the second day of strike action by its employees.

• May 26, 2010

Georgia's main airline has resumed commercial flights to Russia for the first time since a war between the two countries nearly two years ago.

• May 26, 2010