The meeting in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok came with Kim looking for support in his nuclear stand-off with Washington and Putin keen to put Moscow forward as a player in another global flashpoint.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received a total of seven international awards since his inception as premier of India in 2014.

In a bid to make a successful moon mission in near future, NASA has successfully tested a mega rocket engine, marking a major milestone in its aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface in the next five years. The statement was confirmed by US space agency today. The latest test was conducted on April 4 at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis, Mississippi, US, NASA said in a statement.

An A-SAT missile on Wednesday shot down a low earth orbit satellite within "three minutes of the launch", said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Good news! A Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts has successfully stepped inside the International Space Station (IIS) from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, five months after the failed launch of a rocket carrying two of the passengers.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi called up Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, briefing him about the Pulwama Attack ahead of India's foreign minister Sushma Swaraj's visit.

In a bizarre incident, a Russian man has been charged with fake documents to work as a hospital doctor after spending a decade in a psychiatric department for killing a high school classmate and drinking his blood.

At least 14 people have died in a major fire that broke out on two Tanzanian-flagged ships, both carrying Indian and Turkish crew, in the Black Sea, Crimea Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov said on Tuesday, triggering fears that the fatalities may include Indians.

Woman aged 128, who have been officially believed by Russia to be the oldest person died in the Caucasus Mountains. She was born before the last Tsar Nicholas II took the throne, documents claimed.

Two ships carrying Indian, Turkish and Libyan crew members have caught fire in the Kerch Strait separating Crimea from Russia, killing at least 14 sailors, media reports today.