A new style of hairdressing salon tailored to the needs of children and families hits Moscow.

Located on a side street near Tsvetnoi Bulvar, the DD Shop showroom seems like a conspiratorial flat. Inside, two rooms showcase clothing modeled especially for women with a bra size of C or larger. Opened in November, DD Shop makes mostly blouses and dresses, with the occasional blazer.

Andrei Nikitin is the chef at the Conservatory Lounge & Bar in the Ararat Park Hyatt Hotel.

The democratic seafood restaurant File may have gone under, but a similarly sea-themed restaurant has opened in its place -- Caribius. If the thought of marked-down seafood so far from the coast failed to attract a crowd, then perhaps this new tropical island theme might prove more popular, especially among sun-starved Muscovites in the middle of winter.

There was once a time when the phrase ""quiet diplomacy"" was redundant. In terms of how the United States has come to conduct its foreign policy of late, the phrase has become oxymoronic.

We are seeing something close to a revolt in the streets of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. This is the first display of public disorder after a series of electricity blackouts in the city. Protesters blocked off streets and gathered in spontaneous demonstrations.

Next week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos will open under more than just the usual degree of uncertainty about the direction of world affairs. The U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of a recession whose global reach is unknown. Political factors further complicate making an assessment of how the world will cope with what is likely to be a challenging 2008. Can Russia detach itself from the spreading gloom?

U.S. President George W. Bush urged OPEC nations on Tuesday to put more oil on the world market and warned that soaring prices could cause an economic slowdown in the United States. ""High energy prices can damage consuming economies,"" the president told a small group of reporters traveling with him in the Middle East.

Israeli troops killed the son of Gaza's most powerful leader along with 18 other Palestinians on Tuesday in the worst day of fighting in the area since Hamas militants seized control there last summer.

Kenya's new government and opposition clashed in the parliament for the first time on Tuesday in a bad-tempered session reflecting deep bitterness over the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.

France will set up a permanent military base of up to 500 troops in the United Arab Emirates, the French government said Tuesday during a visit there by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Citigroup said Tuesday that a huge write-down for mortgages triggered a nearly $10 billion quarterly loss, about twice analysts' estimates, and that it was raising $14.5 billion, slashing its dividend and cutting 4,200 jobs.

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The Russian company plans to invest billions of dollars in India's fast-growing mobile phone market.

The government needs to do more to deal with inflation, which soared to 11.9 percent last year and could exceed government forecasts of 8 percent this year, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

A lawyer for oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky complained Tuesday that authorities had not announced a date or place for his next trial.

U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch has declined to say whether it plans to bid for a minority stake in Baltic Beverages Holdings, the brewer jointly owned by Britain's Scottish & Newcastle and Denmark's Carlsberg.

Bulgaria and Russia will sign a nearly 4 billion euro ($5.95 billion) contract this week to build a nuclear plant in northern Bulgaria, a Bulgarian official said Tuesday.