The crash of a Russian Yak-42 airliner in September that killed 44 people including the Lokomotiv hockey team was caused by the inadvertent application of the brakes during take-off by one of the pilots, the technical commission (MAK) investigating the crash said on Wednesday.
The crash of a Russian Yak-42 airliner in September that killed 44 people including the Lokomotiv hockey team was caused by the inadvertent application of the brakes during take-off by one of the pilots, the technical commission (MAK) investigating the crash said on Wednesday.
October 31, 2011 was the nominal date when the world's population hit seven billion. Pyotr, a newborn baby, one of several babies being designated the seven-billionth human, was born in the early hours of October 31 in Kaliningrad, Russia.
Former Chernobyl workers and human rights activists in Ukraine protested planned social benefit cuts.
The FBI has released documents, surveillance photographs and footage related to the spy scandal involving ten Russian agents who were deported from the United States in the summer of 2010.
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Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev won the presidential election.
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The London High Court rejected an appeal on Wednesday by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden.
The Bolshoi Theater reopened after a six-year renovation on October 28.
