Russian governor gives final approval to skyscraper for St. Petersburg’s historic center

October 5th, 2009 LONDON - Rolling Stone rocker Ronnie Wood has denied that he wants to split from his young Russian lover. The 62-year-old says living with the 21-year-old Ekaterina Ivanova has been a "great adventure".

September 29th, 2009 LONDON - If sources are to be believed, Ronnie Wood's Russian lover wants to start a family but the guitarist isn't interested. The rocker's love interest/ex-waitress Ekaterina Ivanova is apparently desperate to have a child with him.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - Once an anti-fur activist, supermodel Naomi Campbell is set to ignite a debate after posing naked - with just a Russian sable fur. The 39-year-old catwalk queen has reportedly posed in a coat made from Russian sable in an advert for a luxury New York furrier Dennis Basso, reports the Daily Express.

July 14th, 2009 NYC skyscraper body ID'd as missing cleaning womanNEW YORK — A body found in a skyscraper's air-conditioning duct was officially identified Monday by the city's medical examiner as that of a missing cleaning woman. Police found the body of Eridania Rodriguez on Saturday after discovering blood leaking from a ventilation shaft at the building near the World Trade Center.

July 13th, 2009 Woman was gagged before body found in NYC buildingNEW YORK — A woman found dead in a skyscraper where a cleaning woman had vanished days earlier was bound and gagged and had a gold crucifix taped to her mouth, police said Sunday. Police searching for the missing cleaning woman at a building near the World Trade Center site found the body on Saturday after discovering blood leaking from a ventilation shaft, top police spokesman Paul Browne said.

July 12th, 2009 Body found at NY building where woman went missingNEW YORK — A female body was found stuffed inside an air-conditioning duct Saturday in a Manhattan skyscraper where a cleaning woman disappeared four days ago. Police discovered the corpse, hidden in a utility room duct, just before 9 a.m.

July 11th, 2009 Body found at NY skyscraper where woman vanishedNEW YORK — A cleaning woman who improbably vanished days ago from a Manhattan skyscraper bristling with security cameras was finally found dead Saturday, stuffed inside an air conditioning duct on the 12th floor. Police discovered the corpse, hidden in a utility room, just before 9 a.m.

July 9th, 2009 Woman vanishes at skyscraper near ground zeroNEW YORK — A Manhattan skyscraper in one of the most security-conscious parts of the city has become the scene of an unlikely missing persons mystery. Police are trying to figure out what happened to a cleaning woman who vanished midway through her shift Tuesday evening at an office tower a few hundred feet from the World Trade Center reconstruction site.

July 9th, 2009 Woman vanishes from NYC office towerNEW YORK — A Manhattan skyscraper in one of the most security-conscious parts of the city has become the scene of an unlikely missing persons mystery. Police are trying to figure out what happened to a cleaning woman who vanished midway through her shift Tuesday evening at an office tower a few hundred feet from the World Trade Center reconstruction site.

July 7th, 2009 US first lady tours Russian school for orphans MOSCOW — Michelle Obama took time away from her husband's public diplomacy Tuesday to share a laugh with Russian orphans, hobnob with volunteer nurses and watch dazzling folk dancers gliding on stage as if on ice. The U.S. first lady toured sites around the Russian capital while her husband held a whirlwind of meetings on the second day and final day of a Moscow summit.

July 7th, 2009 Obama's speech not widely seen on TV in RussiaMOSCOW — President Barack Obama's speech to a graduating class of Moscow college students Tuesday was not widely available for the Russian people to see on television. Obama's speech at the New Economic School was being televised live on 24-hour news channel Vesti, but not on any of the main, more widely watched Russian TV channels like First Channel, Rossiya, or NTV.

June 25th, 2009 South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who created a flutter in the media and political circles few days back with his sudden prolonged disappearance from the office has admitted that he has been having an affair outside his marriage. He clarified that unlike what was reported before on him being on the Appalachian Trail, he was actually vacationing with his Argentinean mistress, whom he knows for the last eight years.

June 25th, 2009 Sears Tower to undergo $350 million green remodelCHICAGO — Wind turbines, roof gardens and solar panels will join the pair of antennas atop the Sears Tower's staggered rooftops, said building officials who announced Wednesday that the skyscraper would undergo a $350 million green renovation. The 5-year project would reduce the tower's electricity use by 80 percent and save 24 million gallons of water a year, building owners and architects said.

June 18th, 2009 Russia's Hermitage opens offshoot in Dutch capitalAMSTERDAM — The Hermitage is exhibiting czarist opulence at a new satellite museum in Amsterdam, the city where Peter the Great started Russia's fabulous state art collection 300 years ago and which inspired the design for his own capital, St. Petersburg. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will formally open the Hermitage Amsterdam on Friday.

May 12th, 2009 Russia media say cargo ship docks at space stationMOSCOW — An unmanned Russian cargo ship docked at the international space station Tuesday. Russia's state-run Vesti-24 television showed footage of the Progress M-02M hooking up with the orbital station.