Russians rescue Slovak worker
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A Slovak aid worker kidnapped in the turbulent southern Russian republic of Ingushetia in May is freed by Russian forces.
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Freed Slovak student Miriam Jevikova, kidnapped in the north Caucasus region in June, has returned to Slovakia.
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RIGA  - At least nine Russians were killed and dozens injured in a bus accident in Latvia, the Baltic country&#39;s state rescue service reported.
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Russian and US spacemen have landed safely back on Earth after completing their mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Russians Yuri Shargin and Gennady Padalka and American Michael Fincke touched
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Four of the six Russian computers aboard the International Space Station were working again Saturday, it was reported.  The failed computers were revived by Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, Russian space mission control told Interfax.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Emergency crews worked through the early hours of Wednesday to try and rescue 15 miners trapped with little or no air in a deep coal mine in Poland after an explosion killed at least eight other men.
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Russian rescuers brought five miners to  the surface alive on Saturday and three others climbed out on  their own after more than two days trapped in a burning gold  mine, but hopes faded for nine others still missing.
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Emergency workers sifted through the wreckage of a Russian airliner here to recover bodies and clues as grief-struck families travelled to the site to identify remains.
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Crying relatives greeted eight miners rescued Saturday from a burning Siberian gold mine after a raging fire killed at least 21 of their colleagues. Four others were missing and workers searched for them in smoke-filled tunnels.
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(Korolyov, Russia-AP) Dec. 26, 2004 - Workers at Russia&#39;s space agency are applauding Sunday&#39;s successful hookup of a Russian cargo ship with the international space station.
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By Associated Press  HOUSTON -- Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
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A Slovak driver who crashed into a bus shocked rescuers who found him unconscious and half naked with a vacuum pump on his penis.
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Twenty-eight people, many of them drunk, have drowned in the Russian capital this month as Muscovites cool off from a record heatwave in ponds, fountains and canals, rescue services said on Wednesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - U.S. and Russian flight controllers worked to fully restore critical computers aboard the International Space Station on Thursday after a system crash that could force the $100 billion outpost's crew back to Earth.
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ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia -- It was 6 a.m. when Russian soldiers hoisted themselves over the wall, crashed through the window, and broke down the front door. Their quarries were still asleep.
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AN UNMANNED Russian supply ship saved the day yesterday when it safely delivered 2.5 tonnes (2,500kg) of food to the International Space Station, whose two astronauts were running dangerously low on supplies.
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Alexei Kovalev and Sergei Samsonov scored 3:46 apart in the second period to give Russia the lead for good on the way to a 5-2 win over Slovakia in the World Cup&#39;s preliminary round finale at the Air Canada Centre.