Amanda Knox leaves prison, a free woman for the first time in four years, after an Italian appeals court denies her murder conviction for the stabbing of her British roommate
Former chess king Garry Kasparov leads several opposition leaders in calls for a boycott of Russia's parliamentary elections in December, branding them as 'illegitimate and disgraceful'
Russia's security service says it detained a suspected undercover Chinese spy late last year who was working to gain access to sensitive missile technology, news agencies report