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Rosneft says Arctic well drilled with Exxon struck oil Rosneft said it had found oil in the Kara Sea off the north coast of Siberia in a joint drilling project with US oil giant ExxonMobil.

27 September 2014

Football: UEFA opens financial probes against seven clubs UEFA announced that it had opened probes for suspected breaches of financial fair play rules.

26 September 2014

Google to boost Android encryption, joining Apple Google said it would beef up encryption of its mobile operating system, so that it would not hold "keys" to devices even if it is served with a warrant.

19 September 2014

White House makes it official : US "at war" with IS The White House declared the United States was at war with Islamic State radicals, seeking to rub out another semantic flap over its Syria policy.

13 September 2014

Chelsea Clinton announces pregnancy America's former first daughter Chelsea Clinton announced in New York on Thursday that she is pregnant with her first baby, giving her parents Bill and Hillary a long-awaited grandchild.

18 April 2014

China's reform pledges: the main points China's Communist Party leaders this week emerged from a closed-door meeting in Beijing bearing a raft of promises on issues from the controversial one-child policy to the scope of the death penalty.

17 November 2013

Putin breaks Kremlin taboo by revealing break-up President Vladimir Putin's carefully stage-managed announcement that he and his wife of 30 years were divorcing came as a true shock in Russia.

07 June 2013