A brief look at the stories making headlines in the Russian-language press

Pakistan's Supreme Court overturns an earlier acquittal of the six men implicated in the rape of a villager turned activist.

The museum is being evicted from the Kinocenter complex to make way for a strip bar and a casino.

Accusing the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush of ""carping"" and ""outside interference,"" China issued a sharp complaint Monday after Israel cancelled a controversial Israeli-Chinese arms deal under pressure from the United States.

Democratic legislators in the United States Congress stepped up criticism of Halliburton on Monday for what they said was ""war profiteering,"" citing Pentagon audits that question more than $1 billion of the company's bills for work in Iraq.

The detainee was the very picture of defiance.

A fractured United States Supreme Court on Monday, struggling to define a constitutional framework for the government display of religious symbols, upheld a six-foot-high Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Texas Capitol while ruling that framed copies of the Commandments on the walls of two Kentucky courthouses were unconstitutional.

Legend has it that as long as the Barbary apes roam the Rock of Gibraltar, the territory will remain safely under British rule.