The FINANCIAL -- According to UNIAN, Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on behalf of the Government of Ukraine and on his behalf congratulated Mr. Donald Tusk on appointment to the post of the Head of the Council of Ministers of the

The FINANCIAL - According to RIA Novosti, super cyclone Sidr could have claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people in Bangladesh, or several times more than official statistics, the country's Red Crescent Society said on November 19.

The FINANCIAL - According to RIA Novosti, a 30 year-old Russian woman has been critically injured in the Spanish resort city of Alicante following a knife attack, a police source said on November 19.

The FINANCIAL -- According to RIA Novosti, Merrill Lynch, a major U.S. company in the financial services industry, recently announced that it has acquired about 10% of the Trust Banking Group.

The FINANCIAL - According to RIA Novosti, a court in the Rostov Region, in southern Russia, has found a couple guilty of cruelty after they chained their disabled adopted son to a radiator, the region's prosecutors said on November 19.

The FINANCIAL - According to RIA Novosti, Armenia and the U.S. will sign November 21 an energy cooperation agreement, which includes joint development of environmental safeguards for the country's nuclear industry, the U.S. Embassy said on November 19.