Fear of destabilization is growing as tension is brewing between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO, whose building-up in the Baltics and the Black Sea has incurred vowed retaliatory actions from Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Wednesday that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia on May 6 in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
A National Retail Federation survey on Sunday found that more people shopped online than in stores during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend, a sign of how quickly and deeply American shopping habits have changed.
The Russian Navy refuted reports Wednesday that it has been conducting training combat dolphins in Crimea.
The Australian military staged another G20 exercise in Brisbane early Monday morning featuring speed boats, Black Hawk helicopters and personnel firing blanks from semi-automatic weapons.
Australian researchers has developed a new online tool called "We Feel" which analyses the words from millions of tweets to display a real-time view of our emotions, a latest research statement from Australia's national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), said Monday.